Section: Bangkok Post (Thailand)
Ukraine prepares to close Russia border to halt ‘intervention’
KIEV – President Petro Poroshenko instructed his government on Thursday to consider temporarily closing Ukraine’s porous border with Russia to help halt its “intervention” in the Westward-leaning former Soviet state’s affairs. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Obama will lift sanctions if Russia ‘changes course’ on Ukraine
UNITED NATIONS (UNITED STATES) – US President Barack Obama slammed Russia’s “aggression” in Ukraine but offered to lift sanctions against Moscow if it threw its weight behind an unraveling peace deal with Kiev. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Ukraine PM asks West to keep sanctions on Russia
UNITED NATIONS (UNITED STATES) – Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk called on the West not to ease sanctions on Russia, in his address to the UN General Assembly. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Ukraine peace efforts stall despite lull in fighting
KIEV – Ukrainian peace efforts stalled Wednesday after pro-Russian insurgents called their own elections in defiance of a deal under which they and the Ukrainian army began withdrawing heavy weapons after five months of war. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Ukraine’s uphill battle against graft as election looms
KIEV – Golden loaves became a symbol of Ukraine’s fight against graft after bread-shaped gold bars were discovered at Viktor Yanukovych’s lavish estate outside Kiev, one of the many symbols of the greed and tasteless excess of his regime. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Ukraine rebels start pullback under peace deal
DONETSK (UKRAINE) – Pro-Russian rebels said Tuesday they were starting to withdraw their big guns from the frontline in eastern Ukraine under a peace plan forged with Kiev aimed at ending five months of conflict. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Abe drops plan for Putin visit to Japan this year: media
TOKYO – Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has dropped plans to host Russian President Vladimir Putin in Japan this year due to friction after Tokyo imposed sanctions on Moscow over the Ukraine crisis, reports said Tuesday. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Ukraine troops prepare pullback as truce holds
KIEV – A fragile truce between pro-Russian insurgents and Ukrainian forces appeared to be consolidate Monday as clashes subsided and attention focused on the unresolved status of the separatist east. …read more Source: Bangkok...
NATO cautiously welcomes Ukraine buffer zone deal
KIEV – NATO’s top military commander expressed cautious optimism Saturday that a tenuous Ukrainian ceasefire whose details were thrashed out in marathon overnight negotiations would help end a bloody pro-Kremlin uprising that has inflamed East-West ties. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Ukraine munitions factory hit after new peace plan adopted
DONETSK (UKRAINE) – Explosions ripped through a munitions factory in eastern Ukraine controlled by pro-Russian rebels on Saturday after it came under artillery fire, local officials and AFP journalists said. …read more Source: Bangkok...
