Maidan: A rally against surrender. Hard video Former President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, leader of the Voice Party Svyatoslav Vakarchuk and former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko called on on December 8 to reach the Square in Kyiv for an action against surrender. Photocopy of the statements of the leaders of the three Ukrainian parties - "European solidarity", "votes" and "Fatherland" - published on Facebook by the former speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Andrei Parubiy.

25 years ago, the Budapest Memorandum was signed, which guaranteed Ukraine's independence and inviolability of borders for the rejection of nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons were taken away, then Crimea and Donbass were taken away.

25 years ago, on December 5, 1994, in Budapest, the leaders of Ukraine, the United States, Russia and Great Britain signed a memorandum guaranteeing the independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine in exchange for its renunciation of nuclear weapons and their removal from Ukrainian territory. France and China, the other two nuclear powers, gave similar assurances in the form of oral statements from their leaders, but did not sign the memorandum.

French Alps. Photo: Chamonix.com At least 15 GRU employees in 2014-2018 used the Verkhnyaya Savoy Department in French Alps as a transshipment base, reports Le Monde with reference to sources in French intelligence. From there they went to tasks throughout Europe. Agents of the GRU from the military unit 29155 came to the region, in which, according to the Western media, the murder experts serve.

Igor Kucheryvy. Source: ssu.gov.ua In Ukraine, a member of the Political Council of the Sevastopol branch of United Russia, Igor Kucheryvy, was released in Ukraine, Kommersant reports with reference to the "Commissioner for Human Rights" in Sevastopol Pavel Butsai. “According to relatives, he was released yesterday. He is at large, but still in Ukraine,” Butsai said.

Enver Seitosmanov. Photo: "Crimean solidarity" The collegium of the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don, as part of Sergei Gorelov, Nikolai Gulko, Alexander Generalov, sentenced Sevastopol Enver Seitosmanov to 17 years in a strict regime in the third Sevastopol (Seventh Crimean) case of Hizb Ut-Tahrir. It is reported by "Crimean solidarity." Seitosmanov is the only person involved in the case.

Vitaly Portnikov The Kremlin is preparing for a summit in the Norman format as they can. The shelling on the demarcation line does not stop. In the "Parliament of the Donetsk People's Republic" they vote for recognition of its borders with the corresponding boundaries of the Donetsk region of Ukraine. The speaker of the State Duma of Russia Vyacheslav Volodin warns that several more regions may break from Ukraine.

The murder of political emigrant Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in the center of Berlin did not go according to plan: the killer came across, Germany was forced to react at the diplomatic level. The cyclist Vadim Krasikov is a successor of a long tradition, which was interrupted only in the Yeltsin years. Against dissidents, political emigrants, defectors, Soviet and Putin agents in Europe more than once used bullets, bombs and poisons. Here are just some episodes.