Section: The Daily Star (Lebanon)
Saakashvili urges Ukrainians to rise up against government
Some 2,000 people gathered in central Kiev on Sunday to support a call by ex-regional governor Mikheil Saakashvili – also a former president of Georgia – to rise up against the Ukrainian government. …read more Source: The Daily...
Czech aid group says evicted from eastern Ukraine’s Doneck by separatists
Czech humanitarian organization Clovek v Tisni (People in Need, PIN) has been banned from the Doneck area in eastern Ukraine by separatist authorities, the aid group said in a statement. …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine’s missile test plans near Crimea heat up row with Russia
Moscow protested against Ukraine’s plans to carry out missile tests near Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014 following the toppling of a pro-Russian Ukrainian president, raising the temperature in the dispute between the two countries. …read more Source: The Daily...
Spain issues arrest warrant for Ukraine oligarch
Spanish police have announced an international arrest warrant against a powerful Ukrainian oligarch, identified by media Friday as controversial gas magnate Dmytro Firtash. …read more Source: The Daily...
Russia detains former Navy official in Crimea for spying for Ukraine – Interfax
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained a former Russian navy official in Crimea who is accused of spying for the Ukrainian military, Interfax news agency cited the FSB as saying on Thursday. …read more Source: The Daily...
Putin says Ukraine’s detention of Russian soldiers is ‘perfidy’
The detention this week of two Russian servicemen near the border with Ukraine was an act of “perfidy” by the Kiev authorities, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday. …read more Source: The Daily...
Germany says aiming for new Ukraine talks in Minsk next Tuesday
Germany’s foreign minister said Wednesday that he and his French counterpart had invited the foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine to meet in Minsk next week in another push to revive peace talks on the crisis in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: The Daily...
Russia says detention of its soldiers near Crimea was ‘provocation’
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday that Ukraine’s detention of two Russian soldiers near the border with Crimea was “a provocation.” …read more Source: The Daily...
Russia accuses Ukraine of abducting two soldiers in Crimea
Russia has accused Ukraine of abducting two Russian servicemen on the annexed Crimea peninsula, but Kiev said it had merely detained two Ukrainian army deserters. …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine says no to Russia on pro-EU revolt anniversary
Ukraine Monday marked the third anniversary of the start of its pro-EU revolution with President Petro Poroshenko’s firm rejection of “the Russian world.” …read more Source: The Daily...
