Section: The Daily Star (Lebanon)
Russia lashes out at leaks of MH17 draft report
A top Russian aviation official says leaks of the draft report on the Malaysian jetliner crash over eastern Ukraine are meant to put pressure on investigators. …read more Source: The Daily...
Putin lambasts Finnish leader for barring sanctioned Russian officials
Russian President Vladimir Putin ticks off his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinisto over Helsinki’s barring of officials on a European Union sanctions list over Ukraine, the Kremlin says …read more Source: The Daily...
Eight Ukraine soldiers killed in past 24 hours: Kiev
Eight Ukrainian troops have been killed and 16 wounded in the war-torn east as pro-Russian rebels launch one of their fiercest attacks since the signing of a shaky cease-fire deal, Kiev security officials say …read more Source: The Daily...
Dutch remember MH17 victims, hunt those responsible
Dutch flags will fly at half-mast as families remember those killed when flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine a year ago, with all efforts now focused on catching those responsible …read more Source: The Daily...
Up to 1.3M in parched Ukraine face water crisis: UNICEF
Up to 1.3 million people in war-torn eastern Ukraine are facing acute water shortages and a serious water crisis due to damaged or destroyed infrastructure, the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF said Tuesday. …read more Source: The Daily...
Explosions in Lviv aimed at destabilizing Ukraine: Interior Ministry
Two policemen were wounded in explosions at two district police stations in the west Ukrainian city of Lviv, the Interior Ministry says, linking the cases to a deadly standoff between a far-right group and police over the weekend …read more Source: The Daily...
Poroshenko faces new security crisis in western Ukraine
President Petro Poroshenko confronts a fresh crisis as a deadly standoff continued between interior ministry units and armed Ukrainian ultranationalists in a western enclave near Hungary …read more Source: The Daily...
Two soldiers killed in Ukraine clashes
Two soldiers have been killed in fighting in eastern Ukraine, a Kiev military spokesman said Sunday, reporting heavy shelling by separatist forces despite a four-month truce. …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine says 7 wounded in armed gang attack in western city
MOSCOW (AP) – Ukraine’s Interior Minister says four civilians and three police officers have been wounded in an attack by armed men whose weapons include grenades in a western city. …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine leader warns of ‘terror’ threat to peaceful cities
President Petro Poroshenko warned that the threat of terror was ‘significantly’ rising across Ukraine as pro-Russian militias resumed attacks, killing two more government troops …read more Source: The Daily...
