Section: Today (Singapore)
Russia calls on Ukraine to end blockade of rebel-held region
MOSCOW – Russia’s foreign ministry called on Ukraine on Wednesday to end a transport blockade of rebel-held territory in the east of the country, saying that the situation risked turning into a “humanitarian catastrophe”. The ministry said in a… …read more Source:...
Ukraine imposes sanctions on Ukrainian arms of Russian state banks
KIEV – Ukraine has imposed sanctions on the five Ukrainian subsidiaries of Russian state-owned banks, a senior central bank official said on Wednesday. The restrictions ban the banks from taking money out of Ukraine, Kateryna Rozhkova, a deputy… …read more Source:...
Ukraine’s DTEK Energy says separatists have seized its assets
KIEV – Ukrainian coal producer DTEK Energy said on Wednesday pro-Russian separatists had seized control of its largest mines in rebel-held territory, as well as a power plant and power distribution business. DTEK Energy said it did not expect… …read more Source:...
Ukraine halts all cargo traffic with separatist-held territory
KIEV – Ukrainian authorities on Wednesday halted all cargo traffic with separatist-held territory in the east of the country and demanded that pro-Russian rebels hand back businesses they have seized. President Petro Poroshenko called an… …read more Source:...
Disappearing books: How Russia is shuttering its Ukrainian library
MOSCOW – First, armed police seized some of its books. Next, its director was put on trial accused of stirring up ethnic hatred. And now, quietly, its shelves have been emptied and its volumes packed up, ready to be merged into another library’s collection. … …read more Source:...
EU prolongs until September blacklist of Russians over Ukraine crisis
BRUSSELS – The European Union has prolonged for six months until Sept. 15 a blacklist of Russian and Crimean individuals and firms accused of undermining Ukraine’s integrity and independence, an EU statement said on Monday. “The assessment of… …read more Source:...
Trump to ask Merkel for advice on Ukraine conflict, Putin: U.S. officials
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump will ask German Chancellor Angela Merkel for her views on how the United States can help resolve the conflict in eastern Ukraine when they meet next week, senior Trump administration officials said on Friday. … …read more Source:...
Ukraine protesters keep graft trial on track despite health scare, bomb threats
KIEV – A judge ordered Ukraine’s top tax official on Tuesday to be jailed or pay a hefty bail pending his trial for suspected embezzlement, in a landmark ruling hailed by protesters as a blow for transparency in one of Europe’s most corrupt countries. … …read more Source:...
Ukraine accused of seeking to litigate Crimea annexation
THE HAGUE – Russia accused Ukraine on Tuesday of taking it to court under false pretences, using allegations of financing terrorism and ethnic discrimination as a front to litigate Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula three years ago. … …read more Source:...
Ukraine and Russia face off in U.N. court over separatist conflict
THE HAGUE – Tensions between Ukraine and Russia will play out at the U.N.’s highest court on Monday when judges begin hearing Kiev’s request to order Moscow to halt support for pro-Russian separatists. Ukraine launched the case at the… …read more Source:...
