Section: The New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)
Biden makes 2-day trip to Ukraine in sign of US support
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ” U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is coming to Ukraine’s capital for a two-day visit aimed at pushing the country toward making reforms and reassuring it that the crisis in Syria is not overshadowing Washington’s… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Serb FM: OSCE meeting failed to agree on Ukraine, migrants
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) ” Serbia’s foreign minister says disagreements among member states have blocked joint resolutions about Ukraine and migrant crisis during this week’s meeting of the Organization of Security and Cooperation in… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukrainian officer’s trial expected to finish this year
MOSCOW (AP) ” The spokesman for Russia’s top investigative agency says the trial of a Ukrainian military officer charged with the murder of two Russian journalists is expected to finish before the end of the year.Investigative Committee… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Lawmaker in blacked-out Crimea: Name your boys Generator
Lawmakers in the Russia-occupied Crimea which is grappling with a nearly two-week long blackout suggest parents name their newborn boys Generator to mark the ordeal.Unknown attackers blew up electricity pylons in Ukraine on Nov…. …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Russia calls for lifting of east Ukraine blockade
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) ” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has called for immediate lifting of an economic blockade of pro-Russian rebel-held eastern Ukraine.Lavrov, speaking at an Organization for Security and Cooperation meeting… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Putin opens Crimean ‘energy bridge’
MOSCOW (AP) ” President Vladimir Putin has traveled to the capital of Crimea to open an electricity connection with the Russian mainland, 10 days after the peninsula lost power coming from Ukraine.After Russia annexed Crimea in… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
VP Biden to address Ukraine’s parliament during Kiev visit
WASHINGTON (AP) ” Vice President Joe Biden will deliver an address to Ukraine’s parliament next week during a visit to Kiev, the capital.Biden’s speech Tuesday will focus on the role the U.S. wants Ukrainian legislators to play… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
UN: Polio outbreak in Ukraine is a state of emergency
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ” The World Health Organization is urging Ukraine’s health ministry to declare a state of emergency due to a polio outbreak, a move meant to prompt more action from the government in Kiev.In September, Ukraine… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukrainian president pardons Russian in prisoner exchange
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ” President Petro Poroshenko has pardoned a Russian citizen arrested in eastern Ukraine and exchanged him for a Ukrainian serviceman held by Russian-backed separatists.Poroshenko announced the exchange on his… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine president defends his country’s pact with EU
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) ” Ukraine’s president has strongly defended a pact his country signed with the European Union, calling it “the last farewell to the Soviet Union, the last farewell to Communism.”Petro Poroshenko’s comments… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
