Section: World Bulletin (Turkey)
Ukraine says no to Russia on pro-EU revolt anniversary
The so-called Euromaidan protests lasted three months and culminated in a bloodbath that claimed the lives of more than 100 largely unarmed people and about 20 anti-riot police. …read more Source: World...
Poroshenko congratulates Trump on US election victory
Ukraine president stresses Washington’s importance to Ukraine in Russian aggression against former Soviet republic …read more Source: World...
Poroshenko ‘sure’ Trump supports Ukraine against Russia
“Not one state in the world, except it seems to me North Korea and Venezuela, recognises Crimea,” Poroshenko told a joint news conference with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven in Stockholm. …read more Source: World...
Georgia’s Saakashvili to force early Ukraine elections
Mikheil Saakashvili says new party would reject influence of big business in politics and will deal only with the “Ukrainian people” …read more Source: World...
Russia detains Ukrainian ‘extremist’ group in Crimea
Russia’s FSB security service on Wednesday “detained members of a sabotage-terror group from the main intelligence directorate of the Ukrainian defence ministry,” it said in a statement. …read more Source: World...
EU sanctions six Russian MPs from Crimea
The EU refuses to recognise Moscow’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and insisted Russian parliamentary elections held there in September were illegal. …read more Source: World...
EU adds to Crimea sanctions blacklist
EU diplomatic sources said six Crimea deputies elected to Russia’s Duma had been added to two already on the blacklist. …read more Source: World...
Georgia’s Saakashvili resigns as governor in Ukraine
Saakashvili was a passionate supporter of Ukraine’s 2014 pro-EU revolution that ousted the Russian-backed president and set the former Soviet republic on its westward course. …read more Source: World...
Kiev accuses rebels of killing 2 Ukrainian soldiers
Separatist, pro-Russia rebels double attacks in October compared to September, Ukrainian authorities say …read more Source: World...
Ukraine removes last conscripts from war zone
The announcement by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko comes as the former Soviet republic tries to form a fully professional army that can conform to NATO standards and one day join the Western military bloc. …read more Source: World...
