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[Ticker] Merkel tells Putin to help tame Ukraine separatists
German chancellor Angela Merkel has urged Vladimir Putin to use his influence over separatists in eastern Ukraine to stop the violence. The pair spoke on the phone on Tuesday and agreed on the need for new ceasefire efforts, a German spokesman said. Both sides in the conflict have blamed each other for a recent upsurge in fighting. …read...
EU wants Ukraine ceasefire respected amid renewed fighting
EU foreign ministers met in Brussels to discuss, among other things, the escalating violence in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
[Agenda] Ukraine, Libya and Dieselgate on EU agenda This WEEK
Uncertainty over Trump’s foreign policy will weigh on foreign ministers and MEPs’ minds when they discuss the Ukraine conflict this week. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Tusk implores Russia to stop violence in Ukraine
Donald Tusk, president of the European Council on Thursday called on Russia to use its power over rebels in eastern Ukraine to stop the recent flare-up of hostilities. “We are reminded again of the continued challenge posed by Russia’s aggression in eastern Ukraine”, Tusk told journalists. “Russia should use its influence...
[Ticker] Ukraine’s Poroshenko wants Nato referendum
Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko has said he wants a referendum on joining Nato. He told Berliner Morgenpost that more than half of Ukrainians were now in favour of joining the alliance, up from just 16 percent four years ago. “If the Ukrainians vote for it, I will do everything to achieve membership of the Atlantic alliance,” he...
[Ticker] Trump to ‘consider’ US sanctions on Russia
US president Donald Trump has put the future of sanctions on Russia “under consideration” ahead of his phone call with Russian president Vladimir Putin on Saturday, Trump’s aide, Kellyanne Conway, told US broadcaster Fox News on Friday. Trump will also speak with the French and German leaders the same day, in his first foray...
[Ticker] EU upholds sanctions on Russian missile-maker
The EU’s top court rejected a bid by Russian arms maker Almaz-Antey to lift sanctions imposed in connection with the conflict in eastern Ukraine. Almaz-Antey, the makers of Buk missiles, one of which brought down Malaysian Airlines’ flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014, was targeted by EU sanctions for undermining the territorial...
[Ticker] Marine Le Pen barred from Ukraine
Ukraine’s foreign ministry indicated on Wednesday it would blacklist French far-right leader Marine Le Pen for saying that Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea was “not illegal”. “Making statements that repeat Kremlin propaganda, the French politician shows disrespect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of...
[Ticker] More fighting in eastern Ukraine, says watchdog
There was a “sharp increase” of violence in recent days in eastern Ukraine, an official from the OSCE, Europe’s democracy watchdog, told the Deutsche Welle news service. Alexander Hug said that OSCE’s monitors recorded “2,900 explosions between the evenings of the 18th and 19th of December”, and a 300 percent...
[Ticker] Report: Majority in Dutch senate supports Ukraine deal
Dutch state broadcaster NOS reported Tuesday that a majority of Dutch senators will support the deal about the EU-Ukraine treaty PM Rutte brought home last week from an EU summit. Rutte needs a majority in both houses of parliament to ratify the treaty after a referendum in April. The centrist-liberal D66 party and Greens have announced they will...
