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April 7 , 2021 (EIRNS) On the ground, Ukrainian army shelling continues to wreak havoc in the breakaway republics in the Donbas region. According to the Donetsk News Agency, shelling knocked out the electricity in the village of Vasilyevka, to the northeast of Donetsk city. The D.P.R. representative in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination this morning reported eight ceasefire violations by Ukrainian forces in the previous 24 hours, involving 89 rounds fired from grenade launchers and mortars. In addition to the power outage in Vasilyevka, a water pumping station in another village was also knocked out.
Wednesday, 07 April 2021, 17:55
Government approves concept of Crimean Tatar language development
07.04.2021 15:09
Ukrinform
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has approved a concept of the development of the Crimean Tatar language in order to improve the legislative, institutional, financial and informational basis for the development of the language of one of the indigenous peoples of Ukraine
The relevant decision was approved at a government’s meeting on April 7, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
According to the document, the Ministry of Temporarily Occupied Territories, relevant government bodies, the Mejlis, and the National Academy of Sciences must develop by August 2021 a draft Strategy for the Development of the Crimean Tatar Language for 2022-2032.
Ukraine to look for another city instead of Minsk for TCG talks after lockdown – Reznikov 1 min read
The Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG), after lockdown, will not go to Minsk for negotiations on Donbas because of the enemy rhetoric of Belarus regarding Ukraine, Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov said. We categorically announced that we would not participate in TCG meetings if lockdown suddenly ended and it was proposed to continue consultations, as before, in Minsk. We explained that the Ukrainian delegation would not send its members to Minsk for meetings in real life. We will have to look for another country and another city for meetings, the minister said on the air of the Freedom of Speech (Svoboda Slova) television program on ICTV on Monday evening.
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Numerous statements by Ukrainian and Russian officials reported this Easter Sunday bode ill for hopes of diminishing tensions in Eastern Ukraine. Growing indications of impending intervention by the Pentagon and NATO make the situation yet more grim. U.S. European Command has raised its Ukraine watch level from possible crisis to potential imminent crisis, the highest level, according to Stars and Stripes.
The past few days have witnessed a phone conversation between President Joe Biden and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky and a similar exchange between Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his, Defense Minister Andrii Taran. In both instances the American officials assured their Ukrainian allies of American support not only in their steadily mounting conflict with the Donetsk and Lugansk republics in the Donbass in what was formerly Eastern Ukraine, but with its war of words, and veiled words of war, with Russia which borders the two republics.
Reintegration Ministry asks Rada to finance effective Ukrainian broadcasting to Crimea, Donbas 2 min read
The Ministry of Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine proposes to initiate the development of a comprehensive target program to ensure stable Ukrainian broadcasting in vulnerable territories, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov said. We really ask the parliament to support us at the time when the state budget for 2021 will be adjusted, and to increase funding for broadcasters to UAH 100 million, in particular, to give us the opportunity to finance another UAH 50 million, so that we ensure effective broadcasting both to the occupied part of Donetsk and Luhansk regions and the occupied Crimea and Sevastopol, Reznikov said during the hearings of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy on the topic On ensuring stable Ukrainian broadcasting in t