Section: Today (Singapore)
North Korea’s missile success ‘powered by Ukraine rocket engines’
WASHINGTON – North Korea’s success in testing an intercontinental missile that appears able to reach the United States was made possible by black-market purchases of powerful rocket engines probably from a Ukrainian factory with historical ties to Russia’s… …read more Source:...
Ukraine denies selling missile technology to North Korea
KIEV – Ukraine said on Monday it had never supplied defense technology to North Korea, responding to a New York Times article which quoted experts saying North Korea may have purchased rocket engines from a Ukrainian factory. “Ukraine has never… …read more Source:...
Germany’s FDP urges new approach to Russia’s annexation of Crimea
51 min 40 sec agoBERLIN – Germany may have to accept Russia’s 2014 annexation of the Crimea regio …read more Source:...
German techno band faces charges for Crimea concert: Ukraine envoy
37 min 10 sec agoBERLIN – German techno band Scooter faces significant legal consequences for performi …read more Source:...
Trump calls Russia sanctions legislation ‘significantly flawed’
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Wednesday called the Russia sanctions legislation he signed into law “significantly flawed” and urged Congress to not use the measure to hinder U.S. efforts to resolve the Ukraine conflict with its European allies. … …read more Source:...
Ukraine president strips one-time ally Saakashvili of citizenship
KIEV – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has stripped one-time ally Mikheil Saakashvili of his Ukrainian citizenship, the migration service said on Wednesday, spelling the likely end of the former Georgian president’s political aspirations in Ukraine. … …read more Source:...
Exclusive: Germany wants more EU sanctions on Russia over Siemens Crimea turbines – sources
BRUSSELS – Germany is urging the European Union to add up to four more Russian nationals and companies to the bloc’s sanctions blacklist over Siemens gas turbines delivered to Moscow-annexed Crimea, two sources in Brussels said. The EU has… …read more Source:...
Belarus sees no solution to Ukraine crisis without another summit
LJUBLJANA – Belarus sees no solution to the crisis between its neighbors Russia and Ukraine without another regional summit, the country’s Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei said on Monday. “I believe that for now there are no prospects for a… …read more Source:...
Russia unveils plan to build another power station in Crimea: TASS
MOSCOW – Russia will announce a tender to build a new power station in sanctioned Crimea, Vyacheslav Kravchenko, Russia’s deputy energy minister, was quoted as saying by the TASS news agency on Monday. Construction of two new power stations on… …read more Source:...
Why Ukrainian forces gave up Crimea without a fight – and NATO is alert
KIEV/SEVASTOPOL, Crimea – The career of Sergei Yeliseyev helps to explain why Ukraine’s armed forces gave up Crimea almost without a fight – and why NATO now says it is alert to Russian attempts to undermine military loyalty in its eastern European members. … …read more Source:...
