Section: The Gulf Today (United Arab Emirates)
Ukraine rebels announce new ‘state’
Kiev: Russian-backed rebels fighting against Kiev on Tuesday announced a plan to create a new “state” they said would take the place of Ukraine and have its capital in their territory. Ukraine’s pro-Western authorities immediately ridiculed the idea as a Kremlin project that they would never allow to get off the ground. The separatists said...
MH17 perpetrators may be tried in absentia: Australia
SYDNEY: The perpetrators who brought down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in July 2014, killing all 298 aboard, may be tried in absentia, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said on Sunday. Most of those on board the Boeing 777 were Dutch, but others came from 17 countries, including 38 Australians. It was shot down by a Russian-made Buk...
MH17 lawyer tells Putin to ‘make amends’ over crash
Sydney: Russian President Vladimir Putin must “make amends” for those killed on a Malaysia Airlines jet shot down over Ukraine, the lawyer representing victims said on Wednesday ahead of the third anniversary of the disaster. The jet was downed in conflict-torn eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014, killing all 298 people on board, including 38...
EU seals Ukraine pact ahead of Kiev summit
Brussels: The EU formally approved on Tuesday a landmark cooperation accord with Ukraine meant to counter a hostile Russia ahead of a high-profile summit in Kiev. The decision by the 28 European Union member states came hours before Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was due to meet EU diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini in Brussels. The EU...
Nato backs Ukraine against Russian ‘aggression’
Kiev: Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg pledged support for Ukraine during a visit to Kiev on Monday, as the ex-Soviet republic battles a bloody insurgency by pro-Russian separatists in the east. More than 10,000 people have been killed since a Russian-backed rebellion against the pro-EU government in Kiev erupted in April 2014. Ukraine and the West...
Tillerson urges Moscow to ease Ukraine conflict
Kiev: US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson urged Russia Sunday to take the “first step” to ease the bloody separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine, which Kiev and the West believe is being fuelled by Moscow. Tillerson said sanctions will remain in place against Russia “until Moscow reverses their actions”. “It is necessary for Russia to take the...
Steps needed for genuine ceasefire in Ukraine: Russia
HAMBURG: Measures are needed that will lead to a genuine ceasefire in Ukraine, and implementation of the Minsk agreements to end the conflict there has been too slow, the Kremlin said on Saturday. With Ukraine on the agenda, President Vladimir Putin earlier met with his counterparts from France and Germany, Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel, on...
Women killed as twin blasts rock Ukraine’s rebel city
DONETSK: Two explosions rocked the city of Lugansk in Ukraine’s insurgent-run east on Friday, killing one person and injuring seven on Friday, said officials, considering them “acts of terror.” Lugansk is the main city of one of the two rebel-controlled areas in eastern Ukraine where violence has been uninterrupted since a pro-Russian...
German FM urges lasting ceasefire in eastern Ukraine
KRASNODAR: German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel on Wednesday called for Ukraine and Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine to extend a harvest-related ceasefire, saying it could help pave the way for a political solution. Gabriel, speaking at a news conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, called for a new effort to rein...
Ukraine military spy killed in Kiev car blast
KIEV: A suspected car bombing in Kiev on Tuesday killed a Ukrainian military intelligence officer in an incident classified as a “terrorist act” by police, officials said. Police said the explosion tore through a Mercedes car several kilometres from the heart of the Ukrainian capital at around 0800 GMT, killing the driver and leaving charred...
