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Putin flies into Crimea amid war games and tension
Vladimir Putin flew into annexed Crimea on Friday a day after staging war games there, and said he hoped Ukraine would see “common sense” when it came to resolving a diplomatic crisis over the peninsula. …read more Source: Channel...
Putin says hopes Ukraine sees common sense in diplomatic crisis
Russian President Vladimir Putin flew into annexed Crimea on Friday and said he hoped Ukraine would see common sense when it came to resolving a diplomatic crisis with Russia sparked by allegations of a terror plot on the peninsula. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukrainian MP offers more details on alleged payments to Trump campaign chief
A Ukrainian lawmaker on Friday divulged more details of what he said were payments made to Donald Trump’s campaign chief in the U.S. presidential race by the political party of the Kremlin-backed former Ukrainian leader Viktor Yanukovich. …read more Source: Channel...
Merkel sees no end to EU sanctions against Russia
There is no reason to lift the European Union’s sanctions against Russia as Moscow has not fulfilled all of its commitments under the Minsk peace plan, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in an interview published on Friday. …read more Source: Channel...
Russian naval and land forces carrying out logistics training in Crimea – RIA
Russian naval and land forces were carrying out logistics training in Crimea, a peninsula which Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014, Russian RIA news agency said on Friday, citing Russian defence ministry. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine could introduce martial law if eastern fighting worsens – Poroshenko
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Thursday he did not rule out introducing martial law and a new wave of military mobilisation if the conflict with pro-Russian separatists worsened. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine reports three killed in ‘heaviest fighting for a year’
Ukraine said on Thursday (Aug 18) that pro-Russian rebels had killed three of its soldiers in the worst violence seen in the separatist east for a year. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine anti-graft activists protest ‘gangster-style’ state attacks
About 200 people protested outside Ukraine’s public prosecutor’s office on Wednesday over the “gangster-style” detention of two anti-corruption bureau (NABU) investigators which organisers said showed a lack of political will to eliminate graft. …read more Source: Channel...
Trump campaign chairman helped pro-Russians in Ukraine move money to US firms: AP
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, helped a Ukrainian political party with close ties to Russia secretly move at least US$2.2 million (1.69 million pounds) to two major Washington lobbying firms, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday. …read more Source: Channel...
Trump campaign chairman helped pro-Russians in Ukraine move money to US firms – AP
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, helped a Ukrainian political party with close ties to Russia secretly move at least US$2.2 million to two major Washington lobbying firms, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday. …read more Source: Channel...
