Section: The Straits Times (Singapore)
Slain opposition leader Nemtsov planned to reveal Russian links to Ukraine conflict: Poroshenko
February 28, 2015 11:05 PMKIEV (REUTERS) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Saturday Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was murdered because he planned to disclose evidence of Russia’s involvement in Ukraine’s separatist conflict. …read more Source: The Straits...
Spain arrests 8 accused of fighting alongside pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine
February 28, 2015 12:27 AMMADRID (REUTERS) – Spain on Friday arrested eight citizens who recently returned from fighting alongside pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine, the first such arrest in the European Union of foreign citizens involved in the conflict, the Interior Ministry said. …read more Source: The Straits...
EU calls on Russia to free Ukraine pilot ‘urgently’
February 26, 2015 10:08 PMBRUSSELS (AFP) – The European Union called on Russia Thursday to “urgently” release Ukraine military pilot Nadia Savenchko on humanitarian grounds after 75 days on hunger strike to protest her detention. …read more Source: The Straits...
Neither Russia or Ukraine rebels complying with truce: US
February 26, 2015 12:24 AMWASHINGTON (AFP) – Neither Russia nor the pro-Moscow rebels in Ukraine have even “come close” to fulfilling the terms of a tattered ceasefire deal, US Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday. …read more Source: The Straits...
Britain to help train Ukrainian army to counter Russian threat
February 25, 2015 12:47 AMLONDON (REUTERS) – Prime Minister David Cameron said on Tuesday Britain would deploy military personnel to Ukraine in the next month to help train the Ukrainian army, warning that Moscow would move to destabilise other countries if left unchallenged. …read more Source: The Straits...
Leading powers seek stepped-up monitoring in Ukraine
February 24, 2015 11:03 PMPARIS (REUTERS) – The foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany agreed on Tuesday to seek a reinforcement of the international monitoring mission in Ukraine and renewed their calls for an oft-breached ceasefire agreement to be respected. …read more Source: The Straits...
Residents of shattered Ukraine town leave shelters in search of aid
February 23, 2015 3:51 AMDEBALTSEVE, Ukraine (AFP) – Soviet-era music, remixed to a modern techno track, thunders across Lenin Square in Debaltseve, where a woman jigs a couple of steps in dance. …read more Source: The Straits...
Ukraine prisoner swap under way on front line
February 22, 2015 1:38 AMZHOLOBOK, Ukraine (AFP) – Ukraine’s military and pro-Russian separatists on Saturday began exchanging scores of prisoners each had taken, AFP journalists present in the front-line town where the swap was occurring reported. …read more Source: The Straits...
40,000 attend Moscow pro-Putin rally
February 21, 2015 11:26 PMMOSCOW (AFP) – Tens of thousands of strongman Vladimir Putin’s supporters rallied Saturday near the Kremlin walls, a year after protests in neighbouring Ukraine led to the fall of its pro-Russian president. …read more Source: The Straits...
Russia ‘undermining’ global world order: US
February 21, 2015 6:11 AMWASHINGTON (AFP) – In some of its sharpest criticism to date, Washington accused Moscow on Friday of “undermining” the global order by supporting rebels in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: The Straits...
