Section: The Daily Star (Lebanon)
Ukraine soldier killed in clashes following peace talks
Ukraine reports a soldier had died in clashes with pro-Russian rebels in the east of the country, despite another international bid to find a solution to the 15-month conflict …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine separatists protest against OSCE mission in east
Around 300 people held a protest against the OSCE in eastern Ukraine picketing a hotel in rebel-held Donetsk in what the security watchdog said was an orchestrated move to restrict its work …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukrainian bus crash in Poland kills 5, injures 25
Polish police say that a bus traveling from Ukraine to Warsaw has crashed, killing five people and injuring more than two dozen others. …read more Source: The Daily...
Interpol takes deposed Ukraine leader off wanted list
Ukraine vowed Wednesday to fight to ensure the return and trial of its exiled Russian-backed president after his name was unexpectedly removed from Interpol’s international most wanted list. …read more Source: The Daily...
U.S. could send tanks to Hungary for military exercises: report
The United States could send Bradley fighting vehicles and M1 tanks to Hungary next year for military exercises as part of NATO’s response to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the Napi Gazdasag newspaper reported on Wednesday. …read more Source: The Daily...
Volunteer named governor in eastern Ukraine
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko Wednesday appointed a well-known volunteer as governor in one of the two war-torn regions in the east in a possible sign of a policy change. …read more Source: The Daily...
Hundreds of Ukrainian right-wingers rally against govt
Hundreds of Ukrainian right-wingers were rallying in Kiev Tuesday to protest against government policies in the wake of a deadly stand-off between radical nationalists and police in the country’s west. …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine film director goes on trial in Russia
A Ukrainian film director went on trial on terror charges in southern Russia Tuesday, after Moscow held him for more than a year in a case decried by Kiev, rights groups and prominent film directors across the globe. …read more Source: The Daily...
Russia submits alternative UN resolution on MH17
Russia says it has introduced an alternative UN resolution opposed to creating a tribunal that would prosecute those responsible for the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over rebel-held east Ukraine …read more Source: The Daily...
Eyeing Russia, US leads fresh military drills in Ukraine
Ukrainian and US troops launch fresh drills near the war-torn country’s Polish border in a bid to show unity and resolve in the face of an increasingly defiant Kremlin …read more Source: The Daily...
