Section: The Gulf Today (United Arab Emirates)
Kiev calls on Moscow to release pilot
KIEV: Ukraine called on Russia on Thursday to release a Ukrainian military pilot from a Moscow psychiatric clinic where she is being held over accusations of involvement in the deaths of two Russian journalists. Nadia Savchenko, 33, who was captured by separatists in eastern and sent to Russia, has since been elected in absentia to parliament in...
Ukraine to extend truce with separatists
KIEV: Ukraine will continue upholding a truce with Russian-backed separatists following a day largely free of exchanges of fire between the warring sides, a military spokesman in Kiev said on Wednesday. Andriy Lysenko said there have been attacks on government positions over the previous day, but noted a significant reduction in their quantity....
Dutch to begin assembling MH17 wreckage for investigation
AMSTERDAM: Crash investigators were to begin reconstructing the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 shot down over eastern Ukraine in July, killing all 298 people on board, after wreckage arrived by truck at a Dutch air force hangar on Tuesday. Members of the national Safety Board will piece together the remains of the plane to determine exactly what...
MH17 wreckage due in Netherlands today
KIEV: Wreckage from Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 will arrive from Ukraine at a Dutch air force base on Tuesday where the plane will be reconstructed as part of probe into the crash. The convoy of lorries carrying pieces of wreckage from Ukraine is due to arrive at the Gilze-Rijen airbase in the south of the country at around 2pm, the Dutch...
5 civilians killed in fresh east Ukraine violence
KIEV: Five civilians have been killed in fresh violence in eastern Ukraine, where more explosions and gunfire rang out on Sunday, two days before the start of a planned truce, officials said. Three civilians were killed and 10 were wounded overnight in the rebel bastion of Donetsk, where further explosions and gunfire were heard Sunday morning,...
Hollande meets Putin on Ukraine crisis
MOSCOW: French President Francois Hollande met Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the Ukraine crisis during a brief stopover at a Moscow airport on Saturday. Putin looked nervous as he greeted Hollande, who was on his way back to France after a trip to Kazakhstan and is the most senior Western leader to visit Russia since it annexed...
Russia warns France on warship commitment
BASEL: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday warned France its reputation was on the line over the delivery of a controversial warship to Russia, which has been delayed due to the conflict in Ukraine. His comments came as Paris warned the two Mistral-class helicopter carriers it built for Russia may never be delivered, with a lasting...
Foes hope to dismember Russia: Putin
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin accused Russia’s enemies on Thursday of seeking to carve it up and destroy its economy to punish it for becoming strong, but said his country would rise to any challenge. In a fiercely patriotic state of the union speech, the Kremlin leader trumpeted his annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula,...
Ukraine says pro-Russia rebels violating truce
KIEV: Ukraine’s military on Wednesday accused pro-Russian fighters of violating a truce at an airport in rebel-held Donetsk that had been the focus of fighting for months. “Unfortunately, the ceasefire is not being respected,” Ukrainian National Security and Defence Council spokesman Andriy Lysenko said. “Attacks on the airport and...
Nato ministers chart course on Ukraine
BRUSSELS: Nato foreign ministers met in Brussels on Tuesday aiming to plot a new course after a “year of aggression” from Ukraine to the Middle East and the end of the alliance’s combat mission in Afghanistan. New chief Jens Stoltenberg said as he arrived that US Secretary of State John Kerry and other ministers from the 28-nation group...
