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The sham trial of Nadia Savchenko is turning from the Kremlin’s propaganda move into a serious problem for the Putin regime. Poroshenko used his opportunity to talk to Ukraine’s potential partners in Turkey. The European Commission is ready to cancel EU visa regime for Georgia, while Ukraine is still on the waiting list. Barack Obama continues to play a role as a global peacemaker.

Having vowed to the Europeans to implement a pile of reforms, Ukrainian people's deputies are finally set to return to plenary work next week. However, amid the expected ups and downs of yet another “Coalitiongate” and the attempts to agree on a new composition of the Cabinet, the Parliament is unlikely to have any time left for reforming itself.

Luhansk journalist Maria Varfolomeyeva spent 14 months in captivity of the pro-Russian militants, Russian state prosecution demands 23-year imprisonment for Nadia Savchenko, who has declared a dry hunger strike, 129 Ukrainian citizens remain hostage of the pro-Russian militants in areas of Donbas beyond government control.

The Ukrainian Week in the European Parliament has by and large boiled down to the Ukrainian officials being issued an inaptitude notice. In a struggle for ethics of civil servants, the government decided to ban state officials from publicly criticizing state authorities. A sham trial of Nadia Savchenko in Russia is in the home stretch.

The Ukrainian Week at the European Parliament can hardly claim a status of a diplomatic breakthrough in relations between the legislatures. German foreign policy ambitions are reflected in the increasing pressure on Ukraine. The trial of Nadia Savchenko in Russia approaches its climax.

Foreign Ministers of Ukraine, Germany, France, and Russia are meeting in Paris on March 3. Considering the recent rhetoric of all the negotiating sides, Ukraine should not expect anything good from these talks.

The prime minister remains in office. President Poroshenko sacrificed prosecutor general Viktor Shokin still having a small margin of time to define a nominee for this post. The European Ukraine coalition looks more like a hostel these days. The Heavenly Hundred Memorial Day brought some ugly surprises.

Four Ukrainians were released from militant captivity, only 194 MPs voted for a resolution of no confidence in the Cabinet which was not enough to dismiss the government, Ukraine’s trade balance surplus amounted to $4.065 billion in 2015.

The speeches of participants of the Munich Security Conference echoed in further development of foreign relations. The Verkhovna Rada got embarrassed during the voting for the so-called visa-free laws. Ahmet Davutoglu confirmed that Ukraine is a strategic partner of Turkey.

Russian politician, deputy chairman of the PARNAS opposition party Ilya Yashin has said in an interview with UNIAN that the Kremlin now has full control over the occupied Donbas and explained why the Russian opposition is forced to participate in the parliament elections in the annexed Crimea at the same time condemning he very annexation.

Petro Poroshenko during the Munich Security Conference reminded the audience about what is actually happening in Ukraine. The Government of Arseniy Yatsenyuk is preparing for a decisive battle to prolong its mandate. The minority factions of Parliament are seeking unique ways to strengthen their positions.

One death sentence was formally pronounced by the pro-Russian militants in Donbas, 12 Crimean Tatars were detained after the Russian FSB raided their homes in the occupied Crimea; 21,000 officials are deemed potential targets of Ukraine’s brand new National Anti-Corruption Bureau.

The anniversary of the Minsk agreements is not celebrated, it’s just a date amid Ukraine’s continued attempts to use the deal’s low efficiency in the interests of the state. Several western centers of influence have stated their positions regarding the political situation in Ukraine. Relations between Russia and Turkey are further worsening.

In an interview with UNIAN, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Andrei Zubov explains that, by stopping the advance of Russian aggression, Ukraine has saved the other post-Soviet countries from the territorial claims of the Kremlin. Mr. Zubov offers his own recipe for Putin to save face after forced withdrawal from the occupied Donbas.

In his first interview after the resignation from a post of Ukraine's Permanent Representative to the UN, Yuriy Sergeyev has told UNIAN when he had cut personal contact with his Russian counterpart Vitaliy Churkin, and how just a few Ukrainian diplomats had managed to refute the Kremlin’s aggressive policy.

A minister from Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s government issued an ultimatum to the president's team. The parliamentary coalition is preparing to a revolt of minority factions and an attempt of fractious radicals to return in a gesture of last resort. Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin decided to remind about his own irreplaceability.

15.5 days was the time needed for a freight train to get from Ukraine to China bypassing Russia; 21 citizens of Ukraine are illegally detained in Russia and the temporarily occupied Crimea; 4,749 children of migrants who came to Europe unaccompanied by an adult, are reported missing.

Yehor Bozhok, Acting Head of Mission of Ukraine to NATO, has told UNIAN in an exclusive interview about the new stage of cooperation with the Alliance, explaining what Ukraine expects of the NATO summit in Warsaw.

Both in Berlin and Kyiv, various officials from the German government discussed the issue of Donbas settlement with their Ukrainian colleagues. The Ukrainian Cabinet crisis triggered prompt reaction of the G-7 countries. The Crimean issue remains in a scope of attention of the European Parliament and the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.

The resignation of one of the Ukrainian government's most important actors – Minister of Economic Development and Trade Aivaras Abromavicius – is a hard blow to the international image of Ukraine.