Section: The Daily Star (Lebanon)
Ukraine bans books promoting Russia
Ukraine Friday banned Russian books glorifying the Kremlin and its leaders or espousing what it views as “totalitarian views” in a move certain to further sour relations between the two foes. …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine police arrest man suspected of planning Berlin copycat attack
Ukrainian police arrested a 31-year-old man Friday accused of killing a woman and her daughter, and who they also suspect was planning to mow down citizens with a truck, like the attacks on the Berlin Christmas market and in Nice …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine hit by 6,500 hack attacks, sees Russian ‘cyberwar’
By Natalia Zinets Hackers have targeted Ukrainian state institutions about 6,500 times in the past two months, including incidents that showed Russian security services were waging a cyberwar against the country, President Petro Poroshenko said Thursday. …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine reports first death since new truce
Ukraine Thursday reported the first death of a soldier since Kiev agreed a new “indefinite” ceasefire deal with pro-Russian insurgents in the separatist east last week …read more Source: The Daily...
Moscow says new U.S. sanctions would be attempt to hamper Russia-U.S. cooperation: RIA
Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Thursday that if the United States imposed new sanctions on Russia over hacking allegations it would be an attempt to disrupt possible cooperation between the two countries, the RIA news agency reported …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukrainian activist faces corruption probe as reforms row festers
A young activist who became prominent in Ukraine’s 2014 uprising and was later appointed to work on a major project to reform the corruption-plagued customs of Odessa is herself being investigated for corruption …read more Source: The Daily...
Putin says new gas pipeline will boost annexed Crimea’s economy
Russia Tuesday activated a pipeline carrying Russian gas to Crimea with President Vladimir Putin hailing it as a step that would power economic growth on a peninsula Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014 …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine insurgents release two women thanks to Savchenko
Ukraine’s pro-Moscow insurgents Tuesday released two women they had held captive thanks to the intervention of Nadya Savchenko — a Kiev-born female combat pilot who spent nearly two years in a Russian jail …read more Source: The Daily...
Fragile new Ukraine truce holds for third day
A new indefinite truce in Ukraine held by a thread for a third day Monday as both pro-Russian insurgents and Kiev reported clashes near a prized railroad hub but no deaths. …read more Source: The Daily...
OSCE warns of ‘massive upsurge in violence’ in Ukraine
A top monitor for the conflict in Ukraine warned Thursday that a “massive upsurge in violence” has pushed fighting between Kiev’s forces and pro-Russian rebels to levels not seen in months. …read more Source: The Daily...
