UKRAINE CRISIS - TASS

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Blinken: US concerned about situation on Russian-Ukrainian border

Turkey ready to support conflict settlement effort in eastern Ukraine - Erdogan

Erdogan tells Zelensky Turkey will not recognize ‘Crimea’s annexation’

Village in DPR comes under mortar shelling by Ukrainian troops

Putin conveys to Erdogan Russian approaches to settlement of internal Ukrainian crisis

The Russian president is concerned about provocative actions on the part of Kiev

Turkey notifies Russia of US warships’ transit to Black Sea

A source in Turkey’s Foreign Ministry told TASS earlier on Friday that two US warships would enter the Black Sea through the Bosporus Strait on April 14 and 15 and stay there until May 4-5

Moscow’s bid to make Donbass talks transparent evokes dread in Kiev, says Russian official

The deputy chief of staff of the Presidential Executive Office reiterated that last summer he came up with an offer to organize a live stream of the talks that was turned down by Ukraine

Putin tells Merkel about Kiev’s provocations at contact line in Donbass

The sides underscored the necessity of Kiev’s strict compliance with previously achieved agreements

Ukrainian forces shell village in LPR

The LPR military spokesman Yakov Osadchy pointed out that the facts of breach of additional ceasefire measures by Ukrainian forces "were promptly submitted to Ukrainian representatives to the Joint Center on Ceasefire Control and Coordination"

Russian troops stay in areas inside the country where expedient — Kremlin

The spokesman said he did not have exact information about the plans of the troops’ deployment and redeployment

Kiev seeking to provoke Donbass to resort to force scenario — DPR’s top diplomat

Ukraine will never again attend Donbass talks in Minsk — chief negotiator

Kravchuk explained that at this point he no longer considers Belarus a democratic and self-standing country

Kremlin doesn’t see signs of intent from Kiev to take control of its army in Donbass

Moscow is hopeful that nothing will incite the Ukrainian army to launch hostilities against its own people, according to the spokesman

Russia alarmed by recent statements of Ukrainian leadership on Donbass — top diplomat