Section: The Straits Times (Singapore)
At least 20 killed in rocket attack on Ukraine’s Mariupol: Minister
January 24, 2015 10:00 PMDONETSK, Ukraine (AFP) – At least 20 people died Saturday when rockets hit Ukraine’s strategic government-held port of Mariupol in the wake of Russian-backed rebels’ rejection of peace talks, Ukraine’s interior minister said. …read more Source: The Straits...
Dutch to collect more remains from MH17 Ukraine crash
January 24, 2015 12:38 AMTHE HAGUE (AFP) – A Dutch team is to return to the MH17 crash site in war-torn Ukraine to collect more remains of the 298 people killed when the Malaysia Airlines Boeing plane crashed in July, officials said Friday. …read more Source: The Straits...
Davos 2015: Ukraine requests fresh bailout from IMF
January 22, 2015 9:14 AMDAVOS, Switzerland (AFP) – Ukraine has asked the IMF for a new and broader rescue package, and will seek to renegotiate its debt with bond holders, officials said on Wednesday as the war-torn country fights to save its reeling economy. …read more Source: The Straits...
Davos 2015: Poroshenko says over 9,000 Russian soldiers in Ukraine
January 22, 2015 12:07 AMDAVOS, Switzerland (AFP) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Wednesday that more than 9,000 Russian soldiers were currently backing up pro-Moscow fighters in the separatist east of the country. …read more Source: The Straits...
Russia is boosting its military presence in east Ukraine: Kiev
January 21, 2015 10:12 PMKIEV (Reuters) – Russia is boosting its troop presence in eastern Ukraine and attacks from separatist rebels have intensified as they seek to gain more territory from government forces, the Ukrainian military said on Wednesday. …read more Source: The Straits...
AIDS crisis brewing in Crimea and east Ukraine: United Nations
January 21, 2015 8:29 AMPARIS (AFP) – A lethal health crisis is brewing in Russian-annexed Crimea and war-torn eastern Ukraine, where injecting drug users have lost access to therapy to wean them off heroin, the UN’s AIDS envoy said Wednesday. …read more Source: The Straits...
Russian forces attack Ukraine troops in separatist east: Kiev
January 21, 2015 1:37 AMKIEV (AFP) – Ukraine on Tuesday accused Russian forces of attacking its soldiers fighting pro-Kremlin insurgents in the former Soviet republic’s separatist east. …read more Source: The Straits...
Ukraine claim 700 Russian troops cross border to help rebels
January 19, 2015 10:18 PMKIEV (AFP) – Ukraine’s military claimed that some 700 Russian troops crossed into the country on Monday to aid rebels fighting for control of the country’s east. …read more Source: The Straits...
Six Ukrainian soldiers killed, fighting rages at airport
January 16, 2015 7:28 PMKIEV (REUTERS) – Six Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in attacks by separatists in the past 24 hours, the Kiev military said on Friday as fighting raged at the international airport in the big eastern city of Donetsk. …read more Source: The Straits...
Cancelled Ukraine summit to go ahead at the ‘end of January’
January 15, 2015 10:27 PMASTANA, Kazakhstan (AFP) – Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko agreed on Thursday that the delayed talks on the Ukraine conflict with leaders of Russia, France and Germany will take place at the end of the month. …read more Source: The Straits...
