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EU unblocks visa-free travel for Ukraine, Georgia
The European Union will soon let Ukrainians and Georgians visit the bloc without needing a visa after officials said a deal had been struck on Thursday to end an internal EU dispute that had been holding up the promised measures. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine feels let down by EU with visa deal elusive
Ukraine feels let down by the European Union for not keeping to a promise to give its citizens visa-free travel in the bloc, senior Ukrainian officials said. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine ready to join trilateral gas talks in Brussels
Ukraine is ready to join trilateral talks to discuss gas issues with Russia on Dec. 9 in Brussels, Ukraine state energy company Naftogaz said on its Twitter account on Monday (https://twitter.com/naftogazukraine). …read more Source: Channel...
Putin says work on Russia’s bridge to Crimea is on schedule
Russia is pressing ahead with construction of a road and rail bridge to Crimea and work is on schedule, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday during his annual state of the nation address in the Kremlin. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine says missile tests will avoid Crimea, mollifying Russia
Ukraine’s military said its two-day missile drill starting on Thursday would avoid the airspace over Crimea, sidestepping a possible confrontation with Russia which annexed the peninsula in 2014. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine starts missile test near Crimea, angering Russia
Ukraine began two days of missile tests near Crimea on Thursday – a move that has angered Russia, which has put its air defence forces on high alert and deployed warships in the Black Sea. …read more Source: Channel...
Russia deploys warships near Crimea for Ukrainian missile tests – RIA
Warships from Russia’s Black Sea Fleet have taken up position off Crimea’s western coastline to help strengthen the peninsula’s air defences in response to the start of Ukrainian missile tests nearby, the RIA news agency reported on Thursday. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine warns Russia of missile tests near Crimea
Ukraine ratcheted up tensions with Moscow on Wednesday by warning the Kremlin its army intended to hold two days of missile-launching exercises near the border with Russian-annexed Crimea. …read more Source: Channel...
EU court upholds sanctions on Putin’s businessman friend over Crimea
An EU court on Wednesday upheld sanctions imposed on Arkady Rotenberg, a close ally and former judo partner of Russian President Vladimir Putin whose company won a contract to build a bridge linking the Russian mainland with annexed Crimea. …read more Source: Channel...
Russia’s Lavrov says no breakthrough reached at Minsk talks on Ukraine
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said there had been no breakthrough in talks on Tuesday on the peace process in eastern Ukraine because the foreign ministers from Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany could not agree on a roadmap. …read more Source: Channel...
