Section: Sunday Times (South Africa)
Ukraine imposes passport controls around rebel area
Ukraine announced that anyone crossing in or out of areas controlled by pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country will have to show a passport. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Ukraine leaders meet to ‘re-examine’ peace plan
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was to meet security chiefs Tuesday to “re-examine” an already teetering peace accord with pro-Russian separatists after they defiantly staged elections banned by Kiev. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Ukraine separatists vote in controversial election
Separatists in eastern Ukraine voted Sunday in controversial, Russian-backed leadership elections that Kiev and the West have refused to recognise and which threatened to deepen an international crisis over the conflict. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Ukraine rebels to hold election, despite criticism
Rebel-held territories in eastern Ukraine are preparing to elect a parliament and leader in a vote that has been roundly condemned by the international community but backed by Russia. …read more Source: The Sunday...
FIFA sorry for Crimea video blunder
FIFA has apologised for an embarrassing diplomatic faux-pas when its video launching the 2018 World Cup logo portrayed the Crimean peninsula as part of Russia. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Seven soldiers, one civilian killed in eastern Ukraine
Seven Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in the past day of fighting with pro-Russian rebels in the east of the country, the military said, the biggest daily toll in more than two weeks. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Ukraine leader wins pro-West mandate but wary of Russia
Pro-Western parties will dominate Ukraine’s parliament after an election handed President Petro Poroshenko a mandate to end a separatist conflict and steer the country further out of Russia’s orbit into Europe’s mainstream. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Putin warns the West not to blackmail Russia
President Vladimir Putin accused his US counterpart Barack Obama of a hostile approach towards Russia, warning in a Cold War-style tirade that Moscow would not be blackmailed by the West over Ukraine. …read more Source: The Sunday...
