Section: Sunday Times (South Africa)
Watch: Ukrainian footballer answers mobile and has phone conversation during match
This frankly ridiculous footage comes from an exhibition match between FC Enerhiya Nova Kakhovka and FC Olimpik Donetsk. During the match, Enerhiya defender Oleh Makarov appeared to answer his phone and have a conversation before carrying on as if nothing had happened. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Bus shelling in Ukraine’s Donetsk kills 13: official
Shelling hit a trolleybus in war-torn east Ukraine’s Donetsk on Thursday and killed at least 13 people, an official said, hours after peace talks in Berlin called for a ceasefire. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Deadly clashes rock Ukraine ahead of high-stakes peace talks
Heavy fighting raged between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels in the country’s war-torn east, killing at least five more civilians ahead of high-stakes peace talks in Berlin. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Putin not flinching on Ukraine despite economic crisis
A surge in violence in east Ukraine is undermining international hopes that Russia’s financial crisis and Western sanctions will force President Vladimir Putin to change policy on the conflict. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Ukraine’s Poroshenko to cut short Davos visit: spokesman
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is cutting short his visit to the World Economic Forum in Switzerland because of the escalation of fighting in eastern Ukraine and will return home on Wednesday, his spokesman, Svyatoslav Tseholko, said. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Ukrainian troops retake most of Donetsk airport from rebels
Ukrainian troops have recaptured almost all the territory of Donetsk airport in eastern Ukraine they had lost to separatists in recent weeks and thousands gathered in Kiev for a state-sponsored peace march. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Ukraine tensions keep Putin away from Auschwitz anniversary
Russian President Vladimir Putin is unlikely to join world leaders gathering at the site of the Auschwitz death camp this month because distrust caused by the conflict in Ukraine has cast a pall on arrangements to commemorate the Holocaust. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Merkel urges Putin, Poroshenko to implement peace plan
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told the leaders of Russia and Ukraine that she’s not ready to take part in a four-way summit over the Ukraine conflict unless there’s a chance of real progress. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Ukraine adopts ‘draconian’ budget backed by IMF
Ukraine’s parliament on Monday adopted an austerity budget that hikes import prices and shrinks social spending in order to balance the books under a plan backed by the International Monetary Fund. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Kiev and rebels swap hundreds of captives in peace push
Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels were on Saturday set to complete a swap of hundreds of prisoners as part of a new push for peace that came despite Kiev’s decision to cut off key transport links to breakaway Crimea. …read more Source: The Sunday...
