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Ukraine, separatists to strive for full ceasefire from September 1
MINSK (Reuters) – Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists, in a gesture to shore up a tenuous ceasefire, agreed on Wednesday to strive for an end to all truce violations from next Tuesday, the OSCE and rebel representatives said. …read more Source: The...
Ukrainian film director receives sentence for “terrorist attacks”
MOSCOW: A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov to 20 years in a high-security penal colony for “terrorist attacks” in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that Moscow annexed from Ukraine in April 2014, RIA news agency said. …read more Source: New Straits...
Russian court sentences Ukrainian film director to 20 years in jail
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov to 20 years in a high-security penal colony for “terrorist attacks” in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that Moscow annexed from Ukraine in April 2014, RIA news agency said. …read more Source: The...
Court orders Russia to pay compensation for Greenpeace ship seizure
AMSTERDAM: A court in the Netherlands has ordered Russia to pay compensation for seizing the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise during a protest against an offshore oil platform two years ago. The Permanent Court of Arbitration, which resolves disputes between states, said the decision was taken unanimously on Aug. 14, but it was not published until...
U.S. to deploy F-22 fighter jets to Europe – Air Force secretary
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States will deploy F-22 fighter jets to Europe very soon as part of a broader effort to support eastern European members of the NATO alliance unnerved by Russia’s intervention in Ukraine, Air Force Secretary Deborah James said on Monday. …read more Source: The...
Merkel says all must be done to implement Minsk peace deal
BERLIN (Reuters) – Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday that the ceasefire agreement in eastern Ukraine was not being respected and everything must be done to fully implement the broader peace deal reached in Minsk in February. …read more Source: The...
Russia's Lavrov says U.S. signals it wants to mend ties
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday the United States has been sending “signals” that it wants to start mending ties with Moscow, badly strained over the past year and a half by the conflict in Ukraine. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine leader accuses Russia of arms supplies to rebel east
KIEV: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Monday accused Russia of sending major military backup to pro-Moscow rebels, speaking just ahead of talks on the conflict with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande. “Just this week three big convoys crossed our border towards Lugansk, Donetsk and...
Ukraine faces risky year fighting to escape Russian orbit – Poroshenko
KIEV(Reuters) – President Petro Poroshenko said on Monday Ukraine was facing a precarious year, warning that Russia had several strategies to undermine Kiev’s attempts to move towards Europe. …read more Source: The...
Hollande, Merkel to discuss EU migrant crisis, Ukraine unrest
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande will meet in Berlin on Monday to give a new push to European efforts to tackle the biggest migrant crisis in 50 years. The pair will also hold talks on the resurgence of violence in Ukraine and will be joined by that country’s president Petro Poroshenko later in...
