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Ukraine tightens control over foreign charter flights
Ukraine has tightened control over foreign charter flights for security reasons, the infrastructure ministry said on Sunday. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine leaves sabotaged power lines to Russian-annexed Crimea in mud
Five days after saboteurs blew up power lines in southern Ukraine plunging Russian-annexed Crimea into an energy crisis, all four damaged pylons are out of action and engineers say they need a political decision to restore supplies. …read more Source: Channel...
Russia-Ukraine row over Crimea escalates as Moscow cuts coal to Kiev
Russia has begun to restrict coal supplies to Ukraine, Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn told parliament on Friday, days after the Kremlin threatened to punish Kiev for a power blackout of Russian-annexed Crimea. …read more Source: Channel...
Ten EU nations say Nord Stream gas extension not in EU interests
Russia’s plans to extend its gas link to Germany run counter to EU interests and risk further destabilising Ukraine, 10 European governments said in a letter to the European Commission that called for a summit-level debate on the issue. …read more Source: Channel...
Power blackouts test loyalty to Kremlin in Russian-annexed Crimea
Power blackouts in Crimea orchestrated by anti-Russian saboteurs are stirring discontent a year and a half after Moscow seized the peninsula from Ukraine, threatening to chip away at the pro-Kremlin euphoria many Crimeans felt after annexation. …read more Source: Channel...
Khodorkovsky says Russia’s Putin and West want rapprochement
Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin wants to edge Russia towards a rapprochement with the West after a stand-off over Ukraine brought relations between the two sides to their lowest since the Cold War, former tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky said on Thursday. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine halts Russian gas purchases, closes its airspace
Ukraine has banned all Russian airlines from transiting its airspace, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Wednesday. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine bans Russia’s airlines from crossing its airspace
Ukraine on Wednesday banned all Russian airlines from crossing its airspace, the latest escalation between the two neighbours 19 months into a separatist war in the east of the former Soviet state.The announcement by Kiev’s pro-Western government came only moments after Russia said it was once again halting gas shipments to energy-dependent...
Ukraine bans Russia’s airlines from crossing its airspace
Ukraine has banned all Russian airlines from transiting its airspace, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Wednesday. …read more Source: Channel...
Experts pore over evidence of downed Malaysian Airlines plane
AMSTERDAM – A team that includes Dutch and Ukrainian investigators have begun examining evidence from the MH17 Malaysia Airlines flight that was downed in eastern Ukraine in July 2014, killing all on board, Dutch prosecutors said on Tuesday.Two thirds of the 298 people travelling on the aircraft when it crashed, were Dutch. The Dutch Safety...
