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Ukrainian parliament rejects prime minister's resignation
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s parliament voted to reject Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman’s resignation on Thursday, with the largest faction arguing his resignation would lead to “chaos” before a snap election due in July. …read more Source: The...
Four killed in Ukrainian military helicopter crash
KIEV (Reuters) – A Ukrainian Soviet-designed military helicopter Mi-8 crashed late on Wednesday in western Ukraine, killing all four crew members, Ukrainian land forces said on Thursday. …read more Source: The...
Ex-Georgian leader Saakashvili set for triumphant return to Ukraine
KIEV (Reuters) – Former Georgian leader Mikheil Saakashvili is set for a triumphant return to Ukraine on Wednesday a year after being deported in a feud with former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine president names ex-finance minister Danylyuk as top security official
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Tuesday appointed former finance minister Oleksandr Danylyuk as the top official of the body responsible for coordinating national security. …read more Source: The...
Hundreds of prisoners start fires, wound staff in Ukraine riot
ODESSA, UKRAINE: A major riot involving 500 prisoners broke out at a penitentiary in the Ukrainian city of Odessa on Monday with the inmates setting fire to buildings and wounding seven staff members, officials said.Authorities deployed several hundred National Guard troops and police to help put down the riot, an AFP photographer at the scene...
Ukraine president holds contest for new 'highly moral' lawmaker candidates
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s team on Monday invited applications from members of the public to fight a snap election in July for his new Servant of the People party, betting they can wrench power from a discredited political class. …read more Source: The...
Political novice wins Lithuania presidential race
Centre-right independent candidate Gitanas Nauseda won Lithuania’s presidential election as challenger Ingrida Simonyte, a conservative-backed independent MP, conceded defeat. (AFP pic) VILNIUS: Gitanas Nauseda, a centre-right independent and political novice, won Lithuania’s presidential runoff in a race marked by low populist...
Kremlin rebuffs call to release Ukrainian sailors – Vedomosti
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said an investigation and trial of 24 Ukrainian sailors captured by Russia in the Black Sea must be completed despite an international maritime tribunal calling for their release, the Vedomosti newspaper reported late on Sunday. …read more Source: The...
Russia must release detained Ukrainian sailors – maritime tribunal
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Moscow must release 24 sailors who were aboard three Ukrainian vessels it intercepted in November as they crossed a strait between Russian-annexed Crimea and southern Russia, an international maritime tribunal said on Saturday. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine’s Zelensky under fire over top appointments
Activists of the National Corps, a far-right Ukrainian party, stand with flags outside the Ukrainian Parliament to demand snap parliamentary polls during an extraordinary hearing in Kiev on May 22. (AFP pic)KIEV: Ukraine’s new president Volodymyr Zelensky came under fire on Wednesday, just days after taking office, over key hiring decisions...
