Section: The Star (Malaysia)
G7 threatens 'measures' if Minsk agreement on Ukraine violated
PARIS (Reuters) – The leaders of the G7 said this week’s ceasefire agreement for Ukraine offered a peaceful resolution to the crisis and threatened to take action if it were violated. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine says expects up to $15 billion from debt talks with creditors
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine expects to receive up to $15 billion (9.75 billion pounds) from debt talks with private sector creditors, a finance ministry spokeswoman said on Friday, after the International Monetary Fund announced a bigger, longer-term bailout plan. …read more Source: The...
Battle of the airwaves – Baltics compete with Russia for hearts and minds
RIGA/VILNIUS (Reuters) – Responding to what they see as a wave of Kremlin propaganda over Ukraine, the governments of the three Baltic states are keeping a wary eye on pro-Moscow TV channels and stepping up their own broadcasts in Russian. …read more Source: The...
To reach Ukraine accord: high diplomacy, 'dirty games' and pig's fat
MINSK (Reuters) – The talks lasted more than 17 hours, during which a couple of “buckets” of coffee were drunk, and took place in what Ukraine’s foreign minister, with some understatement, described as a “difficult psychological atmosphere”. …read more Source: The...
'Merkel mania' as hyperactive chancellor tackles Ukraine, Greece
BERLIN (Reuters) – Kiev, Moscow, Munich, Washington, Ottawa, Minsk and Brussels — all in a week’s work for Angela Merkel, whose tireless efforts to broker peace in Ukraine and keep Greece in the euro zone won praise even from the chancellor’s fiercest critics in Germany. …read more Source: The...
Russia hopes all sides to Minsk agreement will observe it
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia expects that all sides to the agreement reached in Minsk on solving Ukraine’s conflict will observe its terms, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday. …read more Source: The...
Fighting rages in run-up to Ukraine ceasefire
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine and Russian-backed rebel fought fiercely for control of a strategic railway junction on Friday despite a new peace deal brokered by Germany and France. …read more Source: The...
Poroshenko says Ukraine still a long way from peace
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Friday the country was still a long way from peace and that there were no guarantees a ceasefire deal agreed in Belarus the previous day would take effect. …read more Source: The...
Finance Minister hopes Ukraine will get new IMF aid in early March – Interfax
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko said on Friday she hoped Ukraine would get its next tranche of financial aid from the International Monetary Fund in the first week of March, news agency Interfax Ukraine reported. …read more Source: The...
Two Ukraine civilians killed in rebel shelling near Luhansk – regional administration
KIEV (Reuters) – Two civilians were killed and six injured on Friday morning by rebel shelling of the town of Shchastya, near Luhansk city in east Ukraine, the head of the Kiev-controlled regional administration said. …read more Source: The...
