Section: China
Putin says Kiev’s EU deal to stymie Customs Union-Ukraine co-op
Russian President Vladimir Putin said here Tuesday that it will be practical to enhance cooperation between the Customs Union and Ukraine, but that is unlikely to happen if Kiev materializes the Association Agreement with the European Union. …read more Source: China...
Russian military sources say soldiers crossed Ukraine border ‘by accident’
Russian military sources quoted by state agencies on Tuesday said that Russian troops captured by Kiev and shown on Ukrainian television had crossed the border accidentally. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Ukraine’s president sets parliamentary election for Oct 26
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko dissolves parliament and calls for early elections on Oct 26, as tensions were still running high in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: China...
Ukrainian president disbands parliament, calls early elections
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko dissolved parliament on Monday and called for early elections on Oct. 26, as tensions were still running high in eastern Ukraine amid fighting between government forces and separatists. …read more Source:...
Russia planning to send second aid convoy into rebel-held eastern Ukraine, says Lavrov
Moscow has informed Kiev that it intends to send a second humanitarian aid convoy into rebel-held eastern Ukraine in the coming days, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Ukraine marks national day, militants parade captives
Ukraine marked its independence day on Sunday with a military march-past in Kiev, but pro-Moscow rebels countered by parading captured Ukrainian troops through the streets of their main stronghold. …read more Source: China...
Ukraine flaunts military in parade
Armored vehicles and soldiers paraded on Kiev’s main square on Sunday to mark Independence Day in a display of the military force Ukraine’s government hopes will defeat separatists in the country’s eastern region. …read more Source: China...
Pro-Russian rebels parade captured Ukrainian soldiers before crowd
Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine paraded dozens of captured soldiers before a jeering crowd yesterday in mockery of Independence Day celebrations in the capital. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Events from Iraq to Ukraine call into focus Barack Obama’s world view
The week began with the breaking of the siege of Mount Sinjar in Iraq, thanks to US bombing, and ended with the public beheading of journalist James Foley in Syria and renewed Russian aggression in Ukraine. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Russia says aid convoy to Ukraine returns home empty
Russia said Saturday the humanitarian aid convoy to Ukraine had returned to homeland empty- loaded, refuting Kiev’s allegation of it taking goods back. …read more Source: China...
