Section: The Daily Star (Lebanon)
Russia cannot divide Europe over Ukraine, says German minister
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier says Russia could not succeed in breaking European Union unity on sanctions over Ukraine by using strategies such as offering to remove trade embargoes against individual EU member states …read more Source: The Daily...
Pro-Russian journalist gunned down in Ukraine’s capital
A Ukrainian journalist known for his pro-Russian views has been gunned down in Kiev …read more Source: The Daily...
Russia says US forced it to act on Ukraine
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu blames the United States and its allies for the conflict in Ukraine, saying their drive to bring Kiev closer to the West was a threat to Moscow and had forced it to react …read more Source: The Daily...
G7 ministers: lifting Russia sanctions is tied to fulfilling Minsk
Western sanctions against Russia can only be lifted once Moscow fulfills the cease-fire agreement signed in Minsk in February and respects Ukraine’s sovereignty, foreign ministers from the Group of Seven say …read more Source: The Daily...
Canada to join US effort to train Ukrainian troops
Canada will send 200 military trainers to Ukraine, joining the U.S. and Britain in an effort to shore up the eastern European country’s battered forces …read more Source: The Daily...
Fighting in eastern Ukraine rages on overnight despite talks
Fighting raged overnight and in the early hours on Tuesday on the outskirts of the rebel stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine despite an agreement reached by the Ukrainian and Russian foreign ministers a day earlier …read more Source: The Daily...
Ministers agree to extend heavy weapons withdrawal in Ukraine
Foreign ministers from Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine agreed to push ahead with the withdrawal of heavy weapons from eastern Ukraine where violence has escalated after tough talks in Berlin on Monday. …read more Source: The Daily...
Fighting picks up in war-torn eastern Ukraine
Fighting has picked up in eastern Ukraine, after more than a month of relative calm, as diplomats gathered in Berlin Monday to discuss the Ukraine crisis. …read more Source: The Daily...
Hospital in rebel-held east Ukraine shelled despite cease-fire
A hospital in the rebel-controlled city of Donetsk was hit by artillery fire on Sunday, Orthodox Easter, despite a cease-fire, but caused no casualties, local authorities say …read more Source: The Daily...
Statues smashed at night after Ukraine’s ban on Soviet-era symbols
Masked men toppled three statues of Communist leaders overnight Friday Ukraine’s city of Kharkiv, days after parliament moved to purge Soviet-era symbols countrywide. …read more Source: The Daily...
