Section: The Malaysian Insider (Malaysia)
Putin describes secret operation to seize Crimea
President Vladimir Putin has revealed the moment he says he gave the secret order for Russia’s annexation of Crimea and described how Russian troops were ready to fight to rescue Ukraine’s deposed, pro-Moscow president. In a trailer shown Sunday for an upcoming documentary on state-run Rossiya-1 television called “Homeward...
Nemtsov girlfriend says threatened
The Ukrainian girlfriend of murdered Russian opposition activist Boris Nemtsov, who was by his side when he was shot dead, has complained to police of receiving death threats, Ukrainian prosecutors said on Friday. “Ganna Duritska… filed a statement about the threat to her life from unidentified people during her time in her...
Rescuers find 32 dead miners in east Ukraine mine
Rescuers found 32 bodies of miners in the Zasyadko mine in eastern Ukraine a day after a blast ripped through the shaft, a rebel official said on Thursday. “32 bodies of dead miners of the Zasyadko mine have been found” by early morning, the emergency ministry of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic said in a statement,...
Dozens dead following Ukraine mine blast
An early morning mine blast in the eastern Ukrainian rebel stronghold of Donetsk killed more than 30 people and injured 14, a local official said on Wednesday. Approximately 70 people were working underground at the time of the explosion, a local emergencies ministry official told the Donetsk separatist press service. Previously, local…...
Western powers vow ‘strong’ response if major Ukraine truce violation
Western leaders have called for a “strong reaction” from the international community to any major violation of a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine as they seek to further pressure Russia over the conflict. The leaders of the United States, Germany, France, Britain and Italy plus EU head Donald Tusk on Tuesday also argued for strengthening...
Obama, European leaders to discuss Ukraine conflict
US President Barack Obama will hold talks on Tuesday with European leaders to discuss the Ukraine crisis and global security issues, the White House said. Obama and the leaders of Britain, France, Germany and Italy, as well as the head of the European Commission, will speak by video conference, it said in a statement. The meeting comes...
Russia, Ukraine strike gas delivery deal
Russia and Ukraine reached a deal Monday to supply gas to Europe until the end of March after President Vladimir Putin and Western leaders admitted there was still progress to be made in implementing a ceasefire. The deal struck after tense talks in Brussels secures gas supplies to the European Union until the end of winter after they had...
Girlfriend of slain Russian activist breaks her silence
Boris Nemtsov’s girlfriend has broken her public silence on the murder of the Russian opposition activist, saying she did not see the killer who gunned him down as they strolled across a bridge near the Kremlin. Speaking largely without emotion in deadened monosyllabic fashion, Ukrainian fashion model Anna Duritskaya said she had...
Peace talks continue as Ukraine death toll reportedly passes 6,000
US Secretary of State John Kerry began tough talks in Geneva on Monday with his Russian counterpart to end fighting in Ukraine, where the UN says the death toll has soared beyond 6,000 people in less than a year. The meeting with Sergei Lavrov in an upscale Geneva hotel came less than a week after Kerry accused Moscow of lying to his face…...
Moscow denounces “abominable” Charlie Hebdo cartoon
The head of the Russian parliament’s foreign affairs committee Alexei Pushkov yesterday denounced a cartoon published in the latest issue of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo on the truce in Ukraine as “abominable”. The drawing, entitled ‘Ceasefire: boredom sets in in Donetsk’, depicts the inhabitants of...
