Section: The Straits Times (Singapore)
Putin discusses ‘deterioration’ in east Ukraine with top security chiefs
November 07, 2014 4:56 AMKIEV (REUTERS) – Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with top security chiefs on Thursday over a“deterioration of the situation” in eastern Ukraine after pro-Russian rebels there accused Kiev of launching a new offensive in violation of a ceasefire. …read more Source: The Straits...
Dutch to recover MH17 wreckage ‘within days’
November 06, 2014 11:27 PMTHE HAGUE (AFP) – Dutch investigators expect to begin recovering wreckage from the site of downed Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine “within a few days” and bring it to the Netherlands, the Dutch Safety Board said on Thursday. …read more Source: The Straits...
Shell kills two young footballers amid crumbling Ukraine ceasefire
November 06, 2014 2:24 AMDONETSK, Ukraine (AFP) – Ukraine’s tattered ceasefire came under new strain on Wednesday as shelling killed two teenagers playing football in rebel-held Donetsk and President Petro Poroshenko said he was deploying reinforcements to face a threatened separatist offensive. …read more Source: The Straits...
Bone by bone, Ukraine identifies its dead
November 05, 2014 10:46 AMZAPORIZHIA, Ukraine (AFP) – Ms Oksana Biryukova’s lab is buzzing around the clock trying to identify the charred remains of Ukrainian soldiers. The DNA laboratory in the south-eastern city of Zaporizhia is the only one in the country charged with creating genetic profiles for the unidentified bodies of...
Pro-Russian rebels name leader in Ukraine as standoff between EU and Russia deepens
November 03, 2014 9:08 PMDONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – Pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine named a leader of their breakaway republic on Monday after a weekend election which was denounced by Kiev and the West and further deepened a standoff with Russia over the future of the former Soviet state. …read more Source: The Straits...
Dutch team back at Ukraine MH17 site to gather victims’ remains
November 01, 2014 12:12 AMTHE HAGUE (AFP) – Dutch forensics experts have returned to the site of downed Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine on Friday, where they gathered body parts despite continued clashes in the area, Prime Minister Mark Rutte said. …read more Source: The Straits...
Ukraine, Russia, EU agree to natural gas supply deal
October 31, 2014 9:06 AMBRUSSELS (REUTERS) – Ukraine, Russia and the European Union signed a deal on Thursday that will see Moscow resume vital supplies of gas to its ex-Soviet neighbour over the winter in return for payments funded in part by Kiev’s Western creditors. …read more Source: The Straits...
Rebels let besieged Ukraine troops retreat from checkpoint
October 29, 2014 3:35 AMSMILE, Ukraine (AFP) – More than 100 besieged Ukrainian soldiers, surrounded for nearly a fortnight at their checkpoint near Lugansk, were allowed to retreat after an agreement with pro-Russian insurgents, a rebel leader said Tuesday. …read more Source: The Straits...
Ukraine leader Poroshenko wins pro-West mandate but wary of Russia
October 27, 2014 10:27 PMKIEV (Reuters) – Pro-Western parties will dominate Ukraine’s parliament after an election handed President Petro Poroshenko a mandate to end a separatist conflict and steer the country further out of Russia’s orbit into Europe’s mainstream. …read more Source: The Straits...
Pro-West parties, nationalists win Ukraine vote
October 27, 2014 3:09 AMKIEV (AFP) – Pro-Western and nationalist parties swept Ukraine’s parliamentary election on Sunday, exit polls showed, in a boost for President Petro Poroshenko’s anti-corruption reforms and attempts to end a war with pro-Russian rebels. …read more Source: The Straits...
