Section: RTÉ News (Ireland)
Watch: Ice causes chaos and struggle for Kiev residents
Glaze ice covered Ukraine’s capital of Kiev yesterday, causing over 100 car accidents according to local police. …read more Source:: RTÉ...
Ukraine president visits ‘heroic’ survivor of air crash
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky praised the only survivor of a military plane crash as the death toll climbed to 26, after another cadet died and three more bodies were found. …read more Source:: RTÉ...
Ukraine plane crash death toll climbs to 23
At least 23 people were killed when a Ukrainian air force plane carrying mostly cadets in the east of the country crashed, emergency services said. …read more Source:: RTÉ...
Belarus opposition figure detained at Ukraine border
One of Belarus’s leading opposition figures Maria Kolesnikova has been detained while trying to cross into Ukraine, border officials said. …read more Source:: RTÉ...
Shots heard as bus passengers taken hostage in Ukraine
A man who said he was armed with weapons and explosives seized a bus in the western Ukrainian city of Lutsk today and took a number of people on board hostage, police said. …read more Source:: RTÉ...
51 babies born to surrogates stranded in Kiev hotel
More than 100 babies born to surrogate mothers have been stranded in Ukraine as their foreign parents cannot collect them due to border closures imposed during the coronavirus pandemic, authorities said. …read more Source:: RTÉ...
Firefighters struggle to control fires near Chernobyl
Firefighters in Ukraine are working to bring forest fires under control in the area around the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant. …read more Source:: RTÉ...
Ukraine holds suspected arms dealer priest
Ukraine has said it detained a priest, who used missions to the country’s conflict-ridden east to traffic arms including a grenade launcher and hand grenades. …read more Source:: RTÉ...
Impeachment witness ousted from White House
The Trump administration has removed Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman from his position as the White House’s top Ukraine expert following his damaging testimony during the impeachment trial. …read more Source:: RTÉ...
Iran sending ‘black boxes’ of downed plane to Ukraine
Iran is sending Ukraine the flight recorders of the Ukrainian passenger plane that its military accidentally shot down this month, Tasnim news agency reported. …read more Source:: RTÉ...
