Section: The Gulf Today (United Arab Emirates)
Ukraine’s richest man blamed for inciting unrest
KIEV: A leading politician in Ukraine published documents on Friday that he says show the country’s richest man is plotting to incite unrest to ensure the government steers clear of reforms that would hurt his business. Parliament deputy Mustafa Nayyem, a respected former reporter, wrote in an article on the Ukrainska Pravda website that...
Anthropologist criticised for showing images of MH17 victims
THE HAGUE: An anthropologist and pathologist who is part of the international team working to identify people killed when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was brought down in Ukraine was publicly rebuked on Thursday for discussing the case and showing photos of victims in a lecture to students. Arie de Bruijn, head of the Dutch police forensics unit...
Ukraine soldier killed by pro-Russian separatists
KIEV: A Ukrainian soldier was killed in fighting with pro-Russian separatists in the east, the army said on Tuesday, its first fatality in nearly a week as shelling rumbled on despite a ceasefire deal. “In the past 24 hours, one Ukrainian soldier was killed and another one wounded” in the village of Pisky near the bombed-out airport of separatist...
US, Ukraine kick off joint military exercise
YAVORIV: Troops from the United States and Ukraine kicked off joint training exercises on Monday intended to help bolster Ukraine’s defences against incursions from Russian-backed separatists in the east. Speaking under driving rain at a military base in the western region of Lviv, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said the...
Russian minister angers Norway with Arctic visit
HELSINKI: Norway said on Sunday it was angry that Russia’s deputy prime minister visited its Arctic Svalbard archipelago this weekend even though he is banned from Norwegian territory over Russia’s role in the Ukraine conflict. “We are not too happy about it,” Norwegian foreign ministry spokesman Rune Bjastad said. Dmitry Rogozin...
US army begins training Ukraine forces
MOSCOW: About 300 US Army paratroopers have arrived in Ukraine for training exercises with national guard units, a move criticised by the Kremlin and eastern Ukraine’s Russia-backed separatist rebels. The troops, from the Italy-based 173rd Airborne Brigade, are to spend several weeks training a total of about 900 Ukrainian national...
Ukrainian serviceman killed in east
KIEV: One Ukrainian serviceman was killed and two were wounded in separatist eastern territories in the past 24 hours, Kiev’s military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said in a televised briefing on Wednesday. He said the situation remained unstable. Rebels “actively used guns, rocket-propelled grenades (and) yesterday the enemy twice opened tank...
Six servicemen killed in east Ukraine
KIEV: Six soldiers were killed and 12 injured in separatist-held east Ukraine in the last 24 hours as a fresh flare-up of fighting rattles a shaky ceasefire, Kiev’s military said on Tuesday. The situation in the conflict zone “remains unstable,” with “armed provocations by the enemy continuing on almost all sides,” military spokesman Andriy...
Violence escalates in east Ukraine ahead of talks
KIEV: Ukraine’s military accused pro-Russian rebels on Monday of using heavy weapons that were meant to have been withdrawn under a ceasefire deal, after one Ukrainian serviceman was killed and six wounded in rebel-held territories. With fighting intensifying once more, the foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany were due...
Ukraine bans Soviet-era icons; statues smashed
KIEV: Masked men toppled three statues of Communist leaders overnight on Friday Ukraine’s city of Kharkiv, days after parliament moved to purge Soviet-era symbols countrywide. A video posted on YouTube by an anti-Russian militant group called “We’ve had enough” —a video shows the men smashing three large monuments glorifying Bolshevik...
