Section: The Daily Star (Lebanon)
Czech president, US envoy in rare public spat over Ukraine
Czech President Milos Zeman and the U.S. ambassador to Prague are in a rare public dispute over Zeman’s decision to attend a Russian military parade …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukrainian leader lifts objections to vote on regional power
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko publicly lifts his objections to a referendum that could give more powers to the restive regions engulfed in more than a year of warfare …read more Source: The Daily...
Four Ukrainian soldiers die in rebel fire: govt
Four Ukrainian army troops were killed by rebel fire near a separatist stronghold in eastern Ukraine, where isolated clashes continue to violate a fragile ceasefire to end the year-long war, officials say …read more Source: The Daily...
Three soldiers killed in restive east Ukraine
Three Ukrainian soldiers died when a mine exploded in the separatist-held east where isolated clashes continue to undermine a cease-fire aimed at ending a year-long war. …read more Source: The Daily...
Russia’s Lavrov calls for pull-back of more weapons in Ukraine
Both sides in the conflict in Ukraine could pull back weapons under 100mm caliber from the front line in a bid to boost confidence in a cease-fire, Lavrov says. …read more Source: The Daily...
Moscow condemns ‘anti-Russian campaign’ in US
Russia expresses outrage over a ‘frenzied anti-Russian campaign’ by US media and political analysts, stepping up a war of words that has intensified during the Ukraine crisis …read more Source: The Daily...
Turkey to send mission to Crimea over Tatar ‘oppression’
Turkey says it will send and ‘informal mission’ to Crimea to monitor what it termed the ‘oppression’ of Crimean Tatars, an ethnic group that opposed Russia’s 2014 seizure of the Black Sea peninsula. …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine signs new three-month deal to buy Russian gas – energy ministry
Ukraine has signed a new agreement to buy Russian gas over the next three months at $248 per thousand cubic metres, the Ukrainian energy ministry said in a statement on Thursday. …read more Source: The Daily...
EU urges Ukraine to accept Russian gas offer
The EU urges Ukraine to accept Russia’s offer to extend the current gas deal with Kiev by another three months, saying it bodes well for an agreement for next winter …read more Source: The Daily...
Poland says will train 50 Ukrainian military staff this year
Poland will provide training to around 50 Ukrainian army instructors this year, the Polish ministry of defense says, a part of NATO’s efforts to boost Ukraine’s defense capacity as it faces a pro-Russian rebellion in the east …read more Source: The Daily...
