Section: The Gulf Today (United Arab Emirates)
Russia seeks 23 years in jail for Ukraine pilot
MOSCOW: Russia’s state prosecutor on Wednesday demanded a 23-year prison sentence for Ukrainian pilot and lawmaker Nadiya Savchenko who is accused of killing two Russian journalists in war-torn Ukraine. One of Savchenko’s lawyers, Mark Feigin, said the prosecution had also requested she pay a fine of 100,000 rubles ($1,350/1,250...
Ukraine accepts Russian proposal to lift truck ban
KIEV: Ukraine will accept a Russian proposal to lift reciprocal transit bans on road cargo, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said on Wednesday. Infrastructure minister Andriy Pyvovarsky told a government meeting that Russia had proposed lifting all limits on road cargo. “They’re allowing (transit), we will too under terms of...
Ukraine at ‘critical juncture,’ EU says
BRUSSELS: Ukraine’s renewed political crisis has left the country at a “critical juncture” but Kiev must stick to necessary reforms, the European Union said on Monday after Kiev’s ruling coalition last week lost its majority in the parliament. “We believe that at this critical juncture it is essential that the country’s...
Nationalist activists protest against Ukrainian govt
KIEV: About 100 nationalist activists set up tents in central Kiev on Sunday to press their calls for ousting the Ukrainian government, brought to power two years ago following months of protests. They were joined by around 200 others in an anti-government protest on Sunday on Independence Square, known as Maidan. Some lit fires in trash bins to...
Ukraine, rebels swap nine prisoners
KIEV: Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels on Saturday exchanged nine prisoners captured in the country’s war-torn east in the first such swap this year, an AFP journalist witnessed. The swap between the Kiev army and the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) took place at mid-day on a road through fields close to the town of...
Radical Party rejoins Ukraine coalition
KIEV: Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk moved to shore up the ruling coalition and ease the threat of early elections after this week’s failed bid to oust him. Efforts to attract new members to the alliance appeared to pay off on Thursday as the Radical Party said it’s ready to rejoin, having left last year. Yatsenyuk courted...
Crisis deepens as Tymoshenko party quits coalition
KIEV: Ukraine’s political turmoil worsened as squabbling in the wake of a failed no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk threatened to sink the ruling coalition. Ex-Premier Yulia Tymoshenko’s Batkivshchyna left the four- party alliance, while fellow coalition member Samopomich boycotted Wednesday’s...
Ukraine’s political crisis deepens
KIEV: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Tuesday asked embattled Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and the country’s controversial prosecutor general to resign because both had lost the public’s trust. “In order to restore trust in the government, the president asked the prosecutor general and the prime minister to quit,”...
West rekindling Cold War: Russian PM
MOSCOW: Russia’s prime minister accused the West on Saturday of rekindling the Cold War, telling a meeting of top defense officials, diplomats and national leaders that sanctions imposed after the annexation of Crimea and new moves by the Nato alliance “only aggravate” tensions. The world has plunged into a “new Cold War,” the Russian...
4 killed as bus hits mine in Ukraine
MARINKA: Four people were killed on Wednesday when a passenger minibus hit a mine in eastern Ukraine during a relative calm in fighting, officials said. A reporter at the scene saw pools of blood and personal belongings of the victims scattered near a checkpoint at Marinka — a flashpoint village of about 10,000 people that witnessed heavy...
