Section: The Daily Star (Lebanon)
Russia’s Lavrov says hopes US willing to compromise over Minsk agreements on Ukraine
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he hoped the United States was willing to compromise so that the Minsk agreements on the Ukraine crisis could be fulfilled, Russian news agencies reported …read more Source: The Daily...
Two Ukrainian soldiers killed in separatist east: Kiev
Two Ukrainian soldiers were killed in clashes between government forces and pro-Russian rebels over the past 24 hours, a military spokesman in Kiev said Saturday …read more Source: The Daily...
Tymoshenko: Ukraine a ‘corruption conglomerate’
Ukraine’s vehement former prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, says the leaders who came to power following 2014’s bloody upheavals are stifling the country by tolerating corruption …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine asks German doctors to examine pilot jailed in Russia
Ukraine said Friday it had asked German doctors to check on the health of Nadiya Savchenko, who has agreed to drink water but is still not eating in protest at her Russian trial …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine finance minister says IMF aid delay is worrying
Ukrainian Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko said Thursday that the ongoing delay in securing a new tranche of financial aid from the International Monetary Fund was hitting confidence in the economy …read more Source: The Daily...
Russia’s Lavrov, Ukraine’s Klimkin hold phone call on pilot case
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Ukrainian counterpart Pavlo Klimkin discussed the case of hunger-striking Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko in a phone call on Wednesday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. …read more Source: The Daily...
Russia’s mission in western Ukraine pelted with smoke bombs
A group of Ukrainians with scarves covering their faces Wednesday threw smoke bombs and fireworks at the Russian mission in the western city of Lviv, while a local lawmaker tore down the Russian flag …read more Source: The Daily...
Calls grow for Russia to release Ukrainian pilot
Ukraine Tuesday prepared to send a team of doctors to check the health of a hunger-striking helicopter pilot who is on trial in Russia as global calls grew for her release …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine urges US, EU to press Russia over jailed pilot
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called on Washington and Brussels Monday to step up pressure on Moscow to secure the release of a hunger-striking Ukrainian pilot from a Russian jail …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukrainians rally to demand Russia release Savchenko
About 2,000 people have rallied on Independence Square in Kiev to demand that Russia release Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko …read more Source: The Daily...
