Section: The Daily Star (Lebanon)
Ukraine’s defence ministry says website hit by cyber attack
Ukraine’s defense ministry said Tuesday its website was down due to cyber attacks that appeared aimed at disrupting it giving updates on the pro-Russian separatist conflict in eastern regions. …read more Source: The Daily...
US, Russia, trade barbs at European security meeting
The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) remained divided over the conflict in eastern Ukraine at the end of a two-day meeting in Hamburg, with the United States accusing Russia of blocking a resolution …read more Source: The Daily...
Uncertainty over US position delays action on Ukraine peace deal: Germany
Uncertainty in Moscow and Kiev about what policies U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will adopt means there is little prospect of making much progress in implementing the Minsk cease-fire accord on Ukraine, Germany’s foreign minister said. …read more Source: The Daily...
NATO chief laments ‘serious’ security problems in Ukraine
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says security problems are undermining peace efforts in eastern Ukraine, as a routinely violated cease-fire barely holds in the separatist Donbass region. …read more Source: The Daily...
Russia deploys warships near Crimea for Ukrainian missile tests: RIA
Warships from Russia’s Black Sea Fleet have taken up position off Crimea’s western coastline to help strengthen the peninsula’s air defenses in response to the start of Ukrainian missile tests nearby, the RIA news agency reported on Thursday. …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine warns Russia of missile tests near Crimea
Ukraine ratcheted up tensions with Moscow Wednesday by warning the Kremlin its army intended to hold two days of missile-launching exercises near the border with Russian-annexed Crimea. …read more Source: The Daily...
German FM says four-way talks on Ukraine were difficult
Four-way talks about the conflict in eastern Ukraine Tuesday were difficult but meaningful and necessary, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told reporters after a meeting with his counterparts from Ukraine, Russia and France. …read more Source: The Daily...
Leading Merkel ally urges sanctions against Russia over Syria
The head of Germany’s foreign affairs committee, an ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel, called Monday for Berlin to impose sanctions on Russia because of its supporting role in the war in Syria. …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine’s Yanukovich blames radicals for bloodshed at Maidan protests
Ukraine’s former president Viktor Yanukovich Monday blamed armed nationalist radicals for fomenting violence in the 2014 Maidan protests that led to scores of protesters being killed and ultimately prompted him to flee into exile. …read more Source: The Daily...
Norway resumes high-level trade talks with Russia after two-year break
Norway has resumed high-level talks with Russia on trade and economic cooperation that were broken off after Moscow annexed Crimea in 2014, the Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries said in a statement Monday. …read more Source: The Daily...
