Section: The Daily Star (Lebanon)
Six Ukrainian soldiers killed as clashes surge
Six Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and thirteen wounded in a fresh surge of fighting between pro-Russian rebels and government forces in the country’s war-torn east, Kiev said Sunday …read more Source: The Daily...
Poland says WWII massacre by Ukraine was a genocide
Poland’s right-wing dominated parliament Friday resolved that the massacre of 100,000 Poles by Ukrainian nationalists seven decades ago was a genocide, reversing a 2013 decision by liberal lawmakers that stopped short of saying so. …read more Source: The Daily...
Hundreds come to bid farewell to slain journalist in Ukraine
Hundreds of local residents and journalists have come to pay their respects to a prominent journalist who died in a car bombing in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev earlier this week …read more Source: The Daily...
Report suggests torture widespread in war-torn Ukraine
A new report released on Thursday condemned both Ukrainian authorities and separatist rebels for wide-spread torture and detentions of civilians in the country’s east torn by a separatist war. …read more Source: The Daily...
Prominent journalist killed in car bombing in Ukraine
A prominent journalist has been killed in a car bombing in Ukraine’s capital, Kiev …read more Source: The Daily...
Seven Ukraine troops killed in separatist east
Ukraine said Tuesday that seven of its soldiers had been killed and 14 wounded in the bloodiest clashes in the pro-Russian separatist east in two months …read more Source: The Daily...
Russia says catches OSCE employee spying for Ukraine
Russia’s FSB security service said Monday it had caught an employee of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe spying for Ukraine by passing on sensitive military information about pro-Kremlin separatists. …read more Source: The Daily...
Malaysia Airlines settles damages with MH17 victims – report
Malaysia Airlines has struck a deal to settle damages claims for most victims of its MH17 flight that was shot down over eastern Ukraine two years ago on Sunday, Dutch national broadcaster NOS reported. …read more Source: The Daily...
Two years on, Ukraine villagers mourn at MH17 crash site
Dozens of villagers carried flowers and lit candles Sunday at the site in rebel-held eastern Ukraine where flight MH17 crashed two years ago, killing all 298 people on board …read more Source: The Daily...
Russia to deploy latest air defense systems in Crimea
Russia will deploy its most advanced S-400 air defense systems to the annexed Crimea peninsula in August, a military official said Friday. …read more Source: The Daily...
