Section: The Daily Star (Lebanon)
Ukraine PM Yatseniuk tenders resignation
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk tendered his resignation Sunday in a televised broadcast …read more Source: The Daily...
EU slams Ukraine violence after monitors attacked
The European Union Sunday criticized the “unprecedented level of violence” in eastern Ukraine after international monitors came under fire despite a truce between government forces and pro-Russian separatists …read more Source: The Daily...
10,000 turn out to mark east Ukraine rebellion anniversary
Around 10,000 people paraded through the center of Donetsk, the rebel “capital” in eastern Ukraine, to mark the second anniversary of the proclamation of the “Donetsk People’s Republic” …read more Source: The Daily...
Eastern Ukraine sees increase in fighting, 2 deaths reported
Ukraine has reported a sharp increase in attacks by Russia-backed separatists around the government-held town of Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine, resulting in at least one civilian death …read more Source: The Daily...
Russia says preparing prisoner handover to Kiev
Russia’s justice ministry on Friday said it was taking preliminary steps to hand over to Kiev four Ukrainian prisoners including film-maker Oleg Sentsov. …read more Source: The Daily...
Attackers torch office of Ukraine judge in Russian troops’ trial
Unknown assailants Friday threw Molotov cocktails and set alight the Kiev office of a Ukrainian judge overseeing the trial of two alleged Russian soldiers captured in the separate east …read more Source: The Daily...
Russia-NATO Council may meet within weeks: agencies cite deputy foreign minister
A meeting of the Russia-NATO Council may take place within weeks for the first time since the Ukraine crisis erupted in 2014, Alexey Meshkov, a deputy Russian foreign minister, was cited as saying Friday by Russian news agencies …read more Source: The Daily...
Dutch voters overwhelming reject Ukraine-EU treaty
Dutch voters have overwhelmingly rejected a Ukraine-European Union treaty on closer political and economic ties, in a rebuke to their government and to the European Union establishment. …read more Source: The Daily...
Poroshenko: Ukraine to continue moving towards EU despite Dutch vote
Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko said on Thursday his country will continue moving towards the European Union despite a resounding rejection by Dutch voters of a treaty on closer ties between the European body and Ukraine. …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine plans Russian oil import ban
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Tuesday he intended to introduce a ban on oil imports from petro-giant Russia as part of Kiev’s trade war with Moscow …read more Source: The Daily...
