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Fresh Ukraine Clashes Kill Four Soldiers
Kiev on Thursday said four soldiers had been killed and 14 injured in renewed clashes with separatist militants in the former Soviet country’s separatist east. …read more Source: Al-Manar...
Etihad airways expands codeshare with belavia to offer daily abu dhabi – kiev service
Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has expanded its codeshare partnership with Belavia – Belarusian Airlines, to offer travellers a daily service between Abu Dhabi and Kiev, Ukraine, via Minsk National Airport. Under the agreement, which commenced from 20 July 2015, Etihad Airways has placed its EY flight code...
New Humanitarian Convoy Travels from Russia to Ukrainian Donbass
TEHRAN (FNA)- A new humanitarian aid convoy from Russia is traveling towards the state border with Ukraine, a source from the press service of the Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations said. …read more Source: Fars News...
Russia’s Putin warns of ‘sabotage’ plots against Crimea
Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned Crimean officials to be on the alert for acts of sabotage by foreign-trained elements. According to Press TV, Putin said on Wednesday at a meeting on regional security in Crimea’s naval port city of Sevastopol “It’s obvious that a risk remains from outside forces to destabilize the...
US anti-Iran bans no concern of Russia’s in S-300 sale: Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Moscow does not care about the United States’ unilateral sanctions against Iran over the delivery of the Russian-made S-300 surface-to-air missile defense system to the Islamic Republic. According to Press TV, Lavrov told journalists in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol on Wednesday “The US...
Russia’s Putin warns of ‘sabotage’ plots against Crimea
Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned Crimean officials to be on the alert for acts of sabotage by foreign-trained elements. …read more Source: Iran...
Ukraine’s minister of economy due in Tehran for talks
Ukraine’s minister of economy and trade says he will soon pay an official visit to Iran to discuss the existing grounds for economic and trade cooperation between the two countries. …read more Source: Al...
Berlin won’t rule out Putin joining Ukraine talks
BERLIN: Germany said on Wednesday it could not rule out Russian President Vladimir Putin would take part in a future round of talks over conflict-torn eastern Ukraine after speculation that Western leaders were snubbing him. Chancellor Angela Merkel is hosting talks with France’s President Francois Hollande and Ukrainian leader Petro...
OSCE observers harassed in Ukraine
KIEV: Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) observers in eastern Ukraine have faced “unprecedented” harassment during the recent spike in violence, mostly from Russian-backed rebels, the chief OSCE monitor said on Wednesday. The mission’s “security has been challenged at an unprecedented level. Our patrols have come...
Prosecutors seek 23 years jail for Ukraine filmmaker
MOSCOW: Russian prosecutors on Wednesday demanded that Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov be jailed for 23 years on terror charges, in a trial decried by the West. Sentsov and another Ukrainian from Crimea, Alexander Kolchenko, who have been held since May 2014, are accused of torching a pro-Kremlin party office and wanting to blow up a statue of...
