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Ukraine's Poroshenko warns of Russian invasion threat after fighting surge
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s president told his military on Thursday to prepare for a possible “full-scale invasion” by Russia all along their joint border, a day after the worst fighting with Russian-backed separatists in months. …read more Source: The...
Prominent Soviet dissident Leonid Plyushch dies
MOSCOW – Communist-era Ukrainian dissident Leonid Plyushch, who was detained for almost three years in a psychiatric ward by the Soviet authorities, died Thursday aged 76 close to Paris, a friend told AFP. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Poroshenko warns of ‘colossal threat’ of new Ukraine fighting
June 05, 2015 1:36 AMKIEV, June 4, 2015 (AFP) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko warned Thursday of a colossal threat of renewed fighting with pro-Russian rebels after a surge in violence that left at least 26 people dead. …read more Source: The Straits...
Poroshenko warns of ‘colossal threat’ of new Ukraine fighting
“There remains a colossal threat of resumption of large-scale fighting on the part of Russian terrorist groups,” Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said in his annual address to parliament, referring to the insurgents. …read more Source: Channel...
Latvia elects Vejonis, EU’s first Green president
RIGA: Latvia’s parliament on Wednesday elected Defence Minister Raimonds Vejonis as the Baltic state’s new president, making him the 28-member European Union’s first Green Party head of state. His victory comes as the small Nato and eurozone member of two million people is grappling with security concerns amid heightened...
Ukraine warns of ‘colossal threat’ of new fighting
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko warned Thursday of the “colossal threat” of major clashes in eastern Ukraine …read more Source: The Times of...
Russia must act to reduce east Ukraine tension – NATO's Stoltenberg
OSLO (Reuters) – Russia has a particular responsibility to help stop the renewed fighting in eastern Ukraine, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday. …read more Source: The...
EU fears Ukraine violence 'spiral', warns on sanctions
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union warned on Thursday that a flare-up in fighting in eastern Ukraine could create a “new spiral” of violence and recalled that EU leaders have said they could tighten sanctions on Russia. …read more Source: The...
France says violence in eastern Ukraine must stop
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s foreign ministry called on Thursday for an immediate an end to fighting in eastern Ukraine after an upsurge in violence over recent days. …read more Source: The...
Too early to say Russia crisis over
Russian central bank chief Elvira Nabiullina said on Thursday it was too early to say the crisis is over in Russia after the economy was hit by Western sanctions and falling oil prices,”It’s premature to say that all the features of the crisis are over,” Nabiullina said at a bank congress in Russia’s second city of Saint...
