Section: The Gulf Today (United Arab Emirates)
UN warns of chlorine gas disaster in Ukraine
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations on Wednesday raised alarm that an escalation of fighting in east Ukraine could lead to a deadly chlorine gas disaster. Fighting between pro-Russian separatist fighters and Ukrainian troops has intensified near water, electricity and gas stations, threatening supplies in the Donetsk region as winter approaches....
Putin assassination plot suspect wounded
Kiev: A Chechen volunteer soldier who was accused of plotting to kill Russian President Vladimir Putin was wounded and his wife killed on Monday when their car was strafed by gunfire near Kiev. The apparent assassination was the latest involving high-profile figures in Ukraine who bitterly opposed Russia. It also threatened to further damage...
German president laments ‘open wounds’
Moscow: German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Wednesday in Moscow called for better ties with Russia, saying “open wounds” in relations between the two countries should heal. The first visit by a German president to Russia since 2010 comes as ties between the two countries remain strained over Russia’s annexation of Crimea...
German president laments ‘open wounds’
Moscow: German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Wednesday in Moscow called for better ties with Russia, saying “open wounds” in relations between the two countries should heal. The first visit by a German president to Russia since 2010 comes as ties between the two countries remain strained over Russia’s annexation of Crimea...
Cyber attacks hits Ukraine airport and metro system
KIEV: Cyber attacks hit Ukraine’s Odessa airport and the metro system in Kiev on Tuesday, with the state-run Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) saying a new wave of hacks was hitting the country and asking transport networks to be on particular alert. Ukraine was the chief victim of a major cyber attack earlier this year, and the...
Arms depot blasts hitting Ukraine
KIEV: The destruction of two ammunition depots this year have dealt the biggest blow to Ukraine’s combat capability since the start of its separatist conflict, security and military officials said on Thursday. Massive explosions at a military depot in the Vynnytsya region, 270 km (170 miles) west of Kiev, forced the authorities to evacuate...
Ukraine’s ex-PM to sue Russia in European rights court
Kiev: Former Ukrainian prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Monday he would sue Russia in the European Court of Human Rights over allegations that he fought Kremlin forces in Chechnya. His spokeswoman Olga Lappo wrote on Facebook that Yatsenyuk intended to prove “the entire absurdity of Russia’s justice system”. Yatsenyuk headed the Kiev...
Ukraine rejects Russia’s ‘hybrid’ peackeeping offer
UNITED NATIONS: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenkoa dismissed a Russian proposal to deploy U.N. peacekeepers in eastern Ukraine as an effort to legalize its proxies and freeze the conflict. Relations between Kiev and Moscow have never been worse since Russia annexed Crimea more than three years ago and Russian-backed separatist fighters...
Powerful wind storm kills eight in Romania
Bucharest: A storm packing powerful winds ripped off roofs and toppled trees in Romania on Sunday night, killing eight people and injuring dozens more, authorities and witnesses said on Monday. With gusts that reached nearly 100 kilometres an hour, the storm pounded the area around the western city of Timisoara before heading north toward...
Poroshenko urges EU not to reject Ukraine’s aspirations
KIEV: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Friday urged the European Union (EU) not to close the door on Ukraine’s hopes of joining, insisting it would be a “mistake” in the face of Russian aggression. “It is dangerous to leave the European countries, which strive to become part of the united Europe, in strategic uncertainty,” Poroshenko...
