Section: The Daily Star (Lebanon)
NATO exercise aims to send message to Moscow
Over 2,000 troops are taking part in the first exercise of NATO’s new rapid response force, intended to advertise its readiness to Russia and reassure east European members spooked by the Kremlin’s actions in Ukraine. …read more Source: The Daily...
Three Ukrainian soldiers killed as fighting intensifies in east : Ukraine military
Three Ukrainian servicemen have been killed and 14 wounded in the past 24 hours in fighting in separatist eastern territories despite a ceasefire, the Ukrainian military said Thursday. …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine parliament sacks head of state security service
Ukraine’s parliament Thursday fired the powerful head of the SBU state security service after he fell foul of President Petro Poroshenko and became embroiled in a conflict with the nation’s chief prosecutor. …read more Source: The Daily...
EU agrees to extend economic sanctions on Russia to end-Jan: sources
European Union ambassadors agreed to extend economic sanctions on Russia by six months until the end of January next year, diplomatic sources said …read more Source: The Daily...
French, German, Russian, Ukrainian FMs to meet Tuesday in Paris: France
The foreign ministers of France, Germany, Ukraine and Russia are set to hold talks next week in Paris over the crisis in eastern Ukraine, the French foreign ministry said …read more Source: The Daily...
Russian pro-opposition journalist held in rebel Ukraine
A reporter with a top Moscow opposition paper, that has won numerous awards in the West, was detained Tuesday in separatist eastern Ukraine and is likely to be expelled to Russia, his colleagues said …read more Source: The Daily...
Two Ukrainian servicemen killed in east Ukraine: Ukraine military
Two Ukrainian serviceman have been killed and five wounded in separatist eastern territories in the past 24 hours as fighting extended along a large stretch of the frontline, the Ukrainian military said …read more Source: The Daily...
US plans to store heavy arms in Baltic, E.Europe: source
The United States plans to store heavy military equipment in the Baltics and Eastern European nations to reassure allies made uneasy by Russian intervention in Ukraine, and to deter further aggression, a senior U.S. official said Saturday. …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine, Russia protest over attacks on each other’s diplomatic missions
Ukraine protested to Russia after mobs vandalized its embassy in Moscow and its consulate in Rostov-on-Don overnight, a day after Russia made a similar protest to Ukraine over damage to the Russian consulate in Kharkiv …read more Source: The Daily...
Six Ukraine soldiers killed in separatist east: Kiev
Ukraine’s army reported the death of six soldiers in the past day of fighting against pro-Russian insurgents in the former Soviet nation’s separatist east …read more Source: The Daily...
