Section: The Local (Austria)
Austrian opera star infuriates Ukraine
According to a report from the Associated Press, Austria’s most famous opera star Anna Netrebko has infuriated the Austrian government through her support of the separatist movement, as well as handing over 1 million rubles to Donetsk separatists in Ukraine. …read more Source: The Local...
Resort owner moots asylum home in Ukraine
The Austrian owner of a dinosaur-themed holiday park has suggested that his province could tackle its asylum seeker’s quota by relocating them to Ukraine, and putting them up in a hotel he owns there. …read more Source: The Local...
Attack on Austrian drone in east Ukraine
One of two Austrian drones monitoring a truce in eastern Ukraine has been subjected to serious electronic jamming whilst flying over rebel-controlled Chermalyk on Tuesday, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said. …read more Source: The Local...
UN chief: Ukraine elections ‘unfortunate’
Elections organised and won by separatists in eastern Ukraine over the weekend were “unfortunate and counterproductive,” UN chief Ban Ki-moon said at OSCE headquarters in Vienna on Tuesday. …read more Source: The Local...
Sham Ukraine observer group ‘undesirable’
Ukraine’s SBU security service has said that it will declare foreign citizens, including a disgraced former far-right Austrian politician who acted as election observers in polls held by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine over the weekend as “undesirables”. …read more Source: The Local...
Austrian drones fly high, over Ukraine and beyond
In the middle of the Austrian countryside, a few sleek, high-tech drones sit in a bright production hall, ready for missions over Ukraine, the Mediterranean or the Middle East. …read more Source: The Local...
Moscow hindering OSCE Ukrainian mission size
The US ambassador to the OSCE said Moscow continued to block the expansion of the checkpoint observation mission on the Russia-Ukraine border, hindering the monitoring that was agreed in a peace plan to end hostilities, according to a report from Agence France-Presse (AFP). …read more Source: The Local...
