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Ministers agree to extend heavy weapons withdrawal in Ukraine
Foreign ministers from Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine agreed to push ahead with the withdrawal of heavy weapons from eastern Ukraine where violence has escalated after tough talks in Berlin on Monday. …read more Source: Channel...
Germany’s foreign minister meets counterparts for Ukraine talks
Germany’s foreign minister met his Russian, Ukrainian and French counterparts in Berlin on Monday evening to discuss how the Minsk agreement can be put into action as violence intensified in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Channel...
France’s Fabius concerned by Ukraine ceasefire violations
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Monday he was concerned by ceasefire violations and insufficient political progress in Ukraine. …read more Source: Channel...
Violence escalates in east Ukraine ahead of talks
One Ukrainian serviceman was killed and six were wounded in separatist territories in the past 24 hours, the Kiev military said on Monday, accusing rebels of using heavy weapons that were meant to have been withdrawn under a ceasefire deal. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine military says one servicemen killed, six wounded
One Ukrainian serviceman was killed and six were wounded in the separatist eastern territories in the past 24 hours, Kiev military spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said in a televised briefing on Monday. …read more Source: Channel...
Exhibit showcases world of children during Holocaust
JERUSALEM, Israel – Zeev Portenoy was nine when the Nazis invaded Tuchin, his Ukrainian hometown, in 1941, forcing his family and the other Jews into a ghetto while he went on the run.For the next four years, he wandered aimlessly around the countryside, pretending to be Ukrainian or Polish just to survive. He knew he was Jewish but just...
China, Russia and eastern Europe boost defence spending: study
[STOCKHOLM] Military spending increased sharply in 2014 in China and Russia and the Ukraine conflict prompted eastern European countries to boost their defence programmes, according to a study by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) released Monday. …read more Source: The Business...
German foreign minister rejects calls to invite Putin to G7 talks
BERLIN – German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier dismissed on Sunday calls from the radical Left party to invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to this year’s summit of the Group of Seven industrial powers.The leaders of G7 nations held a summit without Putin last year in protest against Russia’s annexation of...
Soviet-era statues smashed as Ukraine likens Russia to Nazis
Masked men smashed communist-era monuments in Ukraine’s second city overnight on Friday (Apr 10) after the country’s pro-Western parliament voted to purge the nation of Soviet symbols and its head of state compared today’s Russia to Nazi Germany. …read more Source: Channel...
Naftogaz to seek 12-month Russia gas deal next week
Ukraine’s Naftogaz Chief Executive Andriy Kobolev will seek rapid progress on a deal to secure gas from Russia for the next 12 months in talks brokered by the European Commission in Berlin next week. …read more Source: Channel...
