After the announcement of the "day of silence", the number of terrorists’ attacks on residental areas decreased, but fightings using artillery and tanks continued in the regions of Donets’k airport, Stanitsa Lugans’ka, Debaltseve, Mayors’k, Maryinka. Ukrainian army did not open fire in response.
Contact group talks on resolving the situation in the Donbass scheduled for December 9th didn’t take place. A new date for negotiations being planed for December, 11th.
Explosion in the volunteer center for support of Ukrainian Army Forces in Odessa continued the series of terrorist attacks against volunteer organizations.
State Border Service noted a withdrawal of Russian troops from Kherson region, Chongarsky Peninsula and Arabat Spit.
The invasion of the Ukraine by the next Russian "humanitarian" convoy is scheduled for December 12th.
Energy ministers of eight EU member states and the European Commission are planning to find a replacement for natural gas supplies from Russia through the "South Stream". Among them - the construction of LNG terminals, development of shelf deposits of the Black Sea and the Mediterranean and using gas from the Caspian region.
The Head of the Ministry of Economy and Energy of Germany said that the project "South Stream" can be renewed in the future after normalizing of the relations between EU, Ukraine and Russia.
The European Commission is ready to provide financial support to Greece, Bulgaria and Romania for the construction of a natural gas pipeline from Azerbaijan.
European Union understands Ukrainian financial problems and is going to increase the volume of macro-financial assistance, which now amounts to about 1.61 billion €, while IMF sould be considered as the main investor.
At a closed meeting of the Duma (Parliament) of the Russian Federation, the status of the Russian "volunteers" in the Donbass and the possibility of compensation to the families whose members was killed in the military actions were discussed.
The World Bank predicts that in 2015 Russia will enter into a recession, which could last for 2 years and will lead to a drop in consumer demand and reduced investment due to the fall in energy prices and the lack of access to financial markets.
Russia has sharply increased activity of military aircraft, including strategic bombers over the Baltic Sea. NATO Air Forces had to be enacted to intercept them 13 times per the day.
During the German Chancellor Merkel's speech at the congress of the CDU in Cologne, she has threatened Russia with tougher sanctions in case of escalation of the conflict in the Ukraine, even if the sacntions are going to be harmful to the economy of Germany.
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