Section: United Arab Emirates
Moscow warns Kiev against Nato bid
MOSCOW: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Ukraine’s pursuit of Nato membership posed a danger to European security and that the West was using Kiev’s bid to join the Atlantic alliance as a way to fuel confrontation between Russia and Ukraine. The Kiev parliament’s renunciation of Ukraine’s neutral status this...
Twist of fate: Russian probers cite ‘evidence’ MH17 was downed by Ukrainian jet
Lie detector confirms Ukrainian war plane ‘deployed’ on day MH17 was downed …read more Source: Gulf...
Crimea hit by outages amid Ukraine electricity crisis
KIEV: Crimea on Wednesday suffered massive blackouts after Ukraine unexpectedly stopped supplies, sparking traffic jams, hospital closures and panic across the peninsula. Train stations, businesses and the airport had to close down, traffic lights went dark causing huge snarls in the main city of Simferopol, and several people were stuck in...
Ukrainian pilot behind MH17 crash: Russia
MOSCOW: Russian investigators on Wednesday said they had new proof from a witness that a Ukrainian pilot fired a missile on the day of the Malaysia Airlines crash which killed 298 people. The witness, who was not named, worked at an airfield in the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk where he claimed to have seen a warplane take off on July 17 with...
Year in review 2014: Russian president Vladimir Putin goes back to the USSR
The Russian president seems indifferent to the international outcry over his actions in Ukraine – but a sputtering economy may be harder to shrug off. …read more Source: The...
Russia says Ukrainian pilot behind MH17 crash
MH17 flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down over territory in eastern Ukraine …read more Source: Gulf...
Ukraine takes historic step towards Nato
KIEV: Ukraine took a historic step towards Nato on Tuesday in a parliamentary vote that stoked Russia’s anger ahead of talks on ending the ex-Soviet state’s separatist war. Lawmakers in the government-controlled chamber overwhelmingly adopted a bill dropping Ukraine’s non-aligned status — a classification given to states such as...
Belarus leader looks to revive Ukraine peace talks
KIEV: The authoritarian leader of Belarus visits Kiev on Sunday hoping to revive stalled Ukrainian peace talks he has been hosting in order to calm Europe’s volatile eastern edge. But a high-ranking Ukrainian official said Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko will be just as keen to use the trip to build bridges to Europe that ease...
Russia says new US, Canada sanctions will fuel Ukraine unrest
The latest round of Ukraine-related sanctions by the United States and Canada hamper efforts to resolve the conflict … …read more Source: Gulf...
Obama signs Russia sanctions bill
It also allows Obama to provide military assistance worth $350 million to Ukraine, with anti-tank and anti-armor weapons on the list. …read more Source: Khaleej...
