4/ The advertisements offer a variety of terms and pay rates – some including accomodation, some not – and offer between 2,000 to 7,000 rubles ($26 to $91) per shift or day. Brigades of up to 50 people are being sought to dig trenches and dugouts, and install wooden shields.
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Russian contractors seek builders for trenches in occupied Crimea
1/ Russian contractors are urgently seeking builders and carpenters to construct trenches and fortified positions in the occupied Crimea. Adverts have appeared on Avito, Russia's equivalent of eBay, offering up to 7,000 rubles ($91) a day for the work – but it can be risky.
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Contractors seek workers for trench construction on strategic Crimea isthmus
2/ Many contractors are currently advertising for labourers, carpenters and foremen to work on trench construction around Krasnoperekopsk on the strategic Isthmus of Perekop. This is the main land route into Crimea and has been fortified and fought over for more than 2,000 years.
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Kyiv curfew reduced to midnight-5am from March 26
Kyiv City Military Administration reduces curfew hours. The Kyiv City Military Administration said on March 20 that its head Serhiy Popko had signed an order to reduce curfew hours in Kyiv. Starting from March 26, the curfew will be in force from 12 a.m. to 5 a.m.
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Xi meets indicted war criminal; only Ukraine’s peace plan is acceptable.
So as we speak, Xi is meeting with an indicted war criminal. This, in an of itself, shows that this meeting is a charade and will not result in any peace. The only peace plan acceptable to the civilized world is Ukraine's. The enemy has forfeited anything else.
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Fortified positions on both sides, many pre-2015 near Opytne.
Positions here (on both sides) are incredibly fortified. Many pre-date 2015: especially in the south near Opytne.
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Russian forces approach Avdiivka, shelling and urban battle rumors
Russian forces are closing in on Avdiivka. Nonstop shelling near Kamianka and rumors of urban combat in the 9th district suggest the pocket may be on the verge of collapse.
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First compensations for destroyed homes in May
Shulyak: Ukrainians may receive the first compensations for destroyed homes in May
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Oksen Lisovyi named education minister
As Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced on March 18, this week, Oksen Lisovyi, director of the Minor Academy of Sciences and a volunteer with the 95th Air Assault Brigade, is set to be appointed Minister of Education and Science.
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Verkhovna Rada supports dismissal of Shkarlet
On March 20, the Verkhovna Rada supported the dismissal of Education and Science Minister Serhiy Shkarlet. 295 MPs voted in favor, one lawmaker voted against, and five abstained, MP from the European Solidarity faction Oleksiy Honcharenko reported.