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Poland warns Russia it could face tougher EU sanctions over Ukraine
WARSAW (Reuters) – The European Union will impose tougher sanctions on Russia unless Moscow’s policy in Ukraine changes, Polish Foreign Minister Grzegorz Schetyna said on Tuesday. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine acts to push through anti-corruption laws before election
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s pro-Western government pressed ahead to secure new laws to tackle top-level government corruption on Tuesday, hoping to ease public discontent before an election from which it wants backing for its plan to end a separatist rebellion. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine seeks help as clashes kill 12 despite truce
KIEV: Ukraine appealed to Western powers for support as its truce with pro-Russian rebels seemed increasingly in tatters with 12 deaths reported today in the separatist east. …read more Source: New Straits...
Floods of Ukrainian refugees seek new life in Russia
BELGOROD Russia (Reuters) – After three days trapped in a cellar by shelling, Svetlana and Sergei Divenko left their home in eastern Ukraine and fled to Russia with their two children and a single bag. …read more Source: The...
Europe sends in drones to save Ukraine truce
The first European drones landed Monday in Ukraine and a top US envoy visited Kiev in an urgent bid to bolster its crumbling truce with pro-Russian fighters. Ukraine also announced the arrival of winter supplies from Germany for towns and cities devastated by nearly six months of warfare that has killed nearly 3,300 people across the…...
Truce bypasses Donetsk airport, symbol of conflict in eastern Ukraine
DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – While fighting in much of eastern Ukraine has been calmed by a month-old truce, it rages unabated at the airport near Donetsk, turning a shiny symbol of the country’s Western integration into a shattered mirror of its future prospects. …read more Source: The...
Insight – How the Russian Orthodox Church answers Putin's prayers in Ukraine
MOSCOW/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – After weeks of defying international pleas to free eight European officials they had captured in May, pro-Russian rebels in east Ukraine released them unexpectedly in June following a public appeal by the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill. …read more Source: The...
NATO can put troops wherever it wants, new secretary-general says
WARSAW (Reuters) – New NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg said on Sunday that the Western alliance could deploy its forces wherever it wants, apparently calling into question post-Cold War agreements that have been shaken by Russia’s actions in Crimea and Ukraine. …read more Source: The...
NATO can put troops wherever it wants
WARSAW: New NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg said on Sunday that the Western alliance could deploy its forces wherever it wants, apparently calling into question post-Cold War agreements that have been shaken by Russia’s actions in Crimea and Ukraine. Stoltenberg was visiting NATO member Poland to reassure it that NATO would provide...
France expects to monitor Ukraine ceasefire in coming days
PARIS (Reuters) – France expects to launch a joint operation with Germany “in the coming days” to monitor a ceasefire between the Ukrainian army and separatists in the east of the country, the French defence minister said on Sunday. …read more Source: The...
