Section: South China Morning Post (China)
Failed Ukraine peace deal leaving millions displaced, thousands dead, says UN
A 2015 agreement to bring peace to Ukraine’s volatile east remains largely unimplemented and civilians are paying the highest price, with more than 3,300 killed and 3.5 million needing humanitarian aid this year, UN officials said Tuesday. Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in early 2014 and support for separatist rebels in...
Ukraine prosecutors charge official over acid attack on activist
Ukrainian prosecutors said on Monday they had charged a high-ranking regional official with organising a deadly acid attack on a prominent anti-corruption activist. Vladyslav Manger, the head of the local council in the southern region of Kherson, is accused of “organising the murder of Kateryna Gandzyuk”, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Yuriy...
Viktor Yanukovich, former president of Ukraine, found guilty of treason
A Ukrainian court on Thursday found ex-president Viktor Yanukovich guilty of high treason and sentenced him in absentia to 13 years in prison for asking Russia’s Vladimir Putin to send troops to Ukraine. In 2014, Yanukovich was ousted as a result of a bloody uprising after his attempts to quell it failed. He fled the country and asked Putin...
US energy secretary Rick Perry falls for fake interview with Russian pranksters
Energy Secretary Rick Perry thought he was talking about cybersecurity and a biofuel breakthrough in a call with Ukraine’s Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroisman. Alas, the 22-minute phone call was actually with Russian pranksters. Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexei Stolyarov, who are described as the “Jerky Boys of Russia”, have conducted similar...
Eastern Ukraine separatists declare new state
Russian-backed rebels fighting against Kiev have announced the creation of a new “state” that they said would take the place of Ukraine and have its capital in their territory. The proposed country would be founded after a referendum and called Malorossiya, a tsarist-era name meaning “Little Russia” that once described most of the area covering...
Donald Trump tweets that he and Vladimir Putin discussed forming ‘impenetrable Cyber Security unit’
US President Donald Trump pledged on Sunday to work “constructively” with Russia but ruled out an immediate easing of sanctions while the countries remain at odds over the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine. In a series of tweets on his return from Europe, Trump said he had confronted his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin over evidence from the US...
‘Much to discuss’: Trump and Putin’s first handshake at G20 summit
US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, a veteran businessman and a former spy, shook hands on Friday ahead of the most highly anticipated face-to-face meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit. Trump has said he wants to find ways to work with Putin, a goal made more difficult by sharp differences over Russia’s...
Britain concerned at ‘faltering’ Ukraine reforms, says UK foreign minister Johnson
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Thursday he was worried Ukrainian government reforms were faltering, citing concerns over the selection of Supreme Court judges and obstacles facing anti-graft civil society groups. Johnson made the remarks as he opened an international conference in London held to discuss the progress made in...
Ukrainian police seize servers at software company linked to worldwide cyberattack
Ukraine’s national cybercrime unit seized servers belonging to a small company at the centre of a global outbreak of malicious software after “new activity” was detected there, the service said in a statement early Wednesday. The announcement raised the possibility that the hackers behind last week’s wide-ranging cyberattack were...
‘Powerful cyberattack’ spreads across Europe, causing mass disruption
Several multinational companies said Tuesday they were targeted in a massive wave of cyberattacks which started in Russia and Ukraine before spreading to western Europe. Danish sea transport company Maersk, British advertising giant WPP and the French industrial group Saint-Gobain were among those who said they came under attack and put...
