Section: The Gulf Today (United Arab Emirates)
Savchenko ready to negotiate with pro-Moscow rebels
KIEV: Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko, freed from a Russian jail this week, on Friday said she is ready to negotiate with pro-Russian separatists on releasing prisoners. “I am ready to talk to the devil himself to get every one of our people back,” she said at her first news conference since her dramatic release, part of a prisoner swap with...
EU to unveil military ties plan after Brexit vote
BRUSSELS: The European Union (EU) said on Friday it will unveil plans for closer military cooperation after Britain’s referendum on whether to the bloc, but denied they were secret proposals for an EU army. EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini last year began drawing up a “global strategy” for foreign and security policy in the wake...
Savchenko’s return heralds new turmoil in Ukraine
MOSCOW: After being freed from a Russian jail, Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko stands to emerge as a wild new force in Ukraine’s already volatile politics. Savchenko’s adamant defiance of Russian authorities and the Russian justice system has made her a national icon, a widely revered symbol of courage and perseverance for a nation...
Woman Ukrainian pilot returns home
MOSCOW: When war broke out in eastern Ukraine, pilot Nadezhda Savchenko left her hometown to join the fight against Russia-backed separatists. Nearly two years after she was captured, then tried and convicted in Russia, she returned home to a rapturous welcome in Kiev. Over the past two years, Savchenko became both Ukraine’s national hero...
Seven Ukrainian soldiers killed in war-torn east
Kiev: Seven Ukrainian soldiers have died in the war-torn east over the past 24 hours, the biggest casualty toll in a single day this year, Kiev said on Tuesday. The latest violence came as the leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine called for the implementation of a peace deal in the separatist east during late-night talks Monday. “As a...
MH17 victim families sue Putin, Russia
SYDNEY: Families of victims of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which was shot down over Ukraine in 2014, are suing President Vladimir Putin and Russia for Aus$10 million each in the European Court of Human Rights, The Sydney Morning Herald reported on Saturday. The compensation claim was filed with the Strasbourg-based court by Sydney legal firm...
Nato to hold talks with Russia before alliance summit
BRUSSELS: Nato said on Friday it will hold formal talks with Russia before a landmark July summit in Warsaw endorses the alliance’s biggest military build-up since the end of the Cold War, to counter a more assertive Russia. In April, the Nato Russia Council (NRC) held its first meeting since June 2014 but the talks ended in “profound...
All should avoid new arms race, says Nato
Brussels: Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday called for avoiding a new arms race, as the US-led alliance pushes ahead with its biggest military revamp since the Cold War to counter a more assertive Russia. Russian intervention in Ukraine and its 2014 annexation of Crimea stung Nato leaders into action after years of complacency and defence...
Ukrainian soldier killed after failed peace talks
Kiev: A Ukrainian soldier was killed in a fresh upsurge of fighting with pro-Russian separatists after high-profile peace talks failed to bring any results, the Kiev military said on Monday. The latest casualty came after talks to settle the 25-month conflict floundered in Berlin last week, with Moscow and Kiev saying they could not agree on...
Eurovision win lifts spirits in Ukraine
KIEV/MOSCOW: Ukrainians hailed their country’s unexpected victory in the Eurovision song contest as a Europe-wide endorsement of Ukraine in its smouldering conflict with Russia, while Moscow said the contest had been hijacked by politics. Jubilant Ukrainians erupted in celebration on Sunday across the country. Susana Jamaladinova, a...
