Section: The Daily Star (Lebanon)
Ukraine’s presidential office says website attacked by Russia
The Ukrainian presidential administration said its website had been attacked by Russia in apparent retaliation for Kiev’s decision to block prominent Russian social networks …read more Source: The Daily...
Sinister text messages reveal high-tech front in Ukraine war
Television journalist Julia Kirienko was sheltering with Ukrainian soldiers and medics two miles (three kilometers) from the front when their cellphones began buzzing over the noise of the shelling. Everyone got the same text message at the same time …read more Source: The Daily...
EU approves visa-free travel for Ukrainians
The EU Thursday approved visa-free travel for Ukrainians, fulfilling a key promise to cement ties with Kiev as it remains embroiled in a deadly conflict with Russian-backed rebels …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine central bank post in political limbo as Gontareva leaves
Ukrainian Central Bank Governor Valeria Gontareva will leave her job Thursday, leaving her deputy in charge, the central bank said, setting the stage for potentially protracted negotiations between president and parliament on her replacement …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine rebels roll out banned tanks on WWII Victory Day
More than 10,000 people waving Russian flags and carrying portraits of Stalin watched tanks roll through Ukraine’s de facto rebel capital Donetsk Tuesday in celebration of the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine lets Yanukovych testify by video in treason trial
A Kiev court Thursday adjourned the treason trial of deposed president Viktor Yanukovych in order to let him testify by video link from his hideout in Russia …read more Source: The Daily...
Russia seeks arrest of former Ukraine prime minister
Russia has sent a request to the international police agency Interpol for the arrest and extradition of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, claiming he killed Russian soldiers in Chechnya in the 1990s. …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine orders confisation of $1.5 bn in Yanukovych regime assets
Ukraine Friday launched a process to return some $1.5 billion in assets allegedly stolen from the budget by the deposed Russian-backed leader Viktor Yanukovych and his team …read more Source: The Daily...
Merkel, Putin to discuss G20, Syria, Ukraine in Sochi Tuesday
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi next Tuesday to prepare the upcoming G20 summit in July and discuss geopolitical conflicts in Syria and Ukraine, a German government spokesman said Friday …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine readies project to jam separatist broadcasting
Ukraine plans to jam the airwaves transmitting broadcasts in support of Moscow-backed separatists in the eastern Donbass region, a top Ukrainian defense official said on Thursday …read more Source: The Daily...
