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      On 30th anniversary of Chernobyl disaster, Ukraine remembers its victims
      Apr26

      On 30th anniversary of Chernobyl disaster, Ukraine remembers its victims

      Ukraine held memorial services on Tuesday to mark the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which permanently poisoned swathes of eastern Europe and highlighted the shortcomings of the secretive Soviet system. In the early hours of April 26, 1986, a botched test at the nuclear plant in then-Soviet Ukraine triggered a meltdown that...

      Ukraine: nuclear power and the dark shadow of Chernobyl
      Apr26

      Ukraine: nuclear power and the dark shadow of Chernobyl

      Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster, nuclear menace of ageing Soviet era power plants hides in plain sight. …read more Source: AL...

      On 30th anniversary of Chernobyl disaster, Ukraine remembers its victims
      Apr26

      On 30th anniversary of Chernobyl disaster, Ukraine remembers its victims

      Ukraine held memorial services Tuesday to mark the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which permanently poisoned swathes of eastern Europe and highlighted the shortcomings of the secretive Soviet system …read more Source: The Daily...

      Ukraine marks 30 years since Chernobyl disaster
      Apr26

      Ukraine marks 30 years since Chernobyl disaster

      …read more Source: The Jerusalem...

      Return to Chernobyl with Ukraine’s ‘liquidators’
      Apr25

      Return to Chernobyl with Ukraine’s ‘liquidators’

      The remaining members of a brigade of firefighters return to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone 30 years after the disaster. …read more Source: AL...

      US flies F-22s to Romania as show of strength to Russia
      Apr25

      US flies F-22s to Romania as show of strength to Russia

      The U.S. Air Force Monday flew in two F-22 Raptor fighter jets to Romania as a show of strength to deter Russian intervention in Ukraine …read more Source: The Daily...

      Witnesses: Malaysian Flight MH17 Shot Down by Ukrainian Warplane
      Apr25

      Witnesses: Malaysian Flight MH17 Shot Down by Ukrainian Warplane

      TEHRAN (FNA)- Malaysian Flight MH17, which went down in eastern Ukraine some two years ago, was shot down by a Ukrainian fighter jet, not a ground-to-air missile, people claiming to have witnessed the incident say. …read more Source: Fars News...

      Obama says Russia sanctions must stay in place until Minsk implemented
      Apr25

      Obama says Russia sanctions must stay in place until Minsk implemented

      U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday that the West needed to uphold the sanctions it has imposed against Russia over the Ukraine crisis until Moscow fully implements the so-called Minsk peace agreement. …read more Source: The Daily...

      Witnesses: Fighter jets shot down MH17
      Apr25

      Witnesses: Fighter jets shot down MH17

      Nearly two years after Malaysia Airlines plane plummets over Ukraine, witnesses now say they saw it shot down from the air. …read more Source: Arutz...

      Three Ukrainian   troops killed in   fresh fighting
      Apr24

      Three Ukrainian troops killed in fresh fighting

      Kiev: Three Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and six injured in a fresh upsurge of fighting between pro-Russian rebels and government forces in the country’s separatist east, the Kiev military said on Sunday. “As a result of hostilities, three Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and another six wounded over the past 24 hours”, military...