Section: The Star (Malaysia)
Focus on Islamic State and Libya as NATO foreign ministers meet
ANTALYA, Turkey (Reuters) – Preoccupied for more than a year by the Ukraine crisis, NATO foreign ministers meeting in Turkey this week will focus on instability on the alliance’s southern flank, ranging from Islamic State in Iraq and Syria to turmoil in Libya. …read more Source: The...
'What does Moscow want?' asks Georgian president
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The former Soviet republics of Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine are moving inexorably from the orbit of a Russian state that promotes values fundamentally alien to its neighbours, according to Georgia’s president. …read more Source: The...
Scores of Russian soldiers killed in east Ukraine – opposition report
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Moscow spent more than 53 billion roubles ($1.04 billion) supplying a separatist rebellion in east Ukraine and at least 220 Russian soldiers have been killed there, a report by Russian opposition activists said on Tuesday. …read more Source: The...
Three Ukrainian servicemen killed in past 24 hours in east – Ukrainian military
KIEV (Reuters) – Three Ukrainian servicemen were killed and one was wounded in separatist eastern territories over the past 24 hours despite a three-month-old ceasefire deal, Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said on Tuesday. …read more Source: The...
Kerry to explore Putin's flexibility on Ukraine, Syria
SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hopes to explore Russia’s willingness to curb its involvement in Ukraine and its support for Syria’s president at talks on Tuesday with President Vladimir Putin. …read more Source: The...
NATO says Russian-backed separatists equipped to launch new attacks with little warning
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Russia has built up its forces on the border with Ukraine and sent more military hardware into eastern Ukraine, enabling pro-Russia separatists to launch attacks with little warning if they choose to do so, NATO’s chief warned on Monday. …read more Source: The...
Lavrov, Kerry to meet Tuesday, Moscow sees no breakthrough – RIA quotes source
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry plan to meet on Tuesday in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi to discuss Ukraine, Yemen, Syria and Iran, RIA news agency quoted a diplomatic source as saying. …read more Source: The...
Russia's Putin says Ukraine peace process moving forward despite problems
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday that a peace deal agreed in Minsk over the separatist conflict in east Ukraine was moving forward despite problems and that it had been quieter in Ukraine recently. …read more Source: The...
No respite for candy factory caught up in Russia-Ukraine crisis
LIPETSK, Russia (Reuters) – The fortunes of the Russian outpost of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s candy empire have ebbed and flowed with the Russian-backed separatist conflict in the east of his country. …read more Source: The...
Russia stages WW2 victory parade as Ukraine bristles
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Tanks and troops paraded across Moscow’s Red Square on Saturday to mark the 70th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany, an event boycotted by Western leaders over Russia’s role in the Ukraine crisis. …read more Source: The...
