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[Ticker] France may sell Mistrals to Egypt
French security chief Louis Gautier told MPs Friday Canada, Egypt, India, and Singapore have expressed “serious” interest in buying the two “Mistral” warships which were due to go to Russia, AFP reports. He said France is paying €1.1bn to Russia for cancelling the deal, due to the Ukraine war. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Ukraine says Russia will cause more EU migrants
Ukraine president Petro Poroshenko said Friday that Russia’s decision to send “hundreds” of “green men”, meaning soldiers, to Syria will enflame the conflict, “provoking an ever-growing exodus of people, mostly to the EU”. He said Russia’s using Crimea as a “base of operation” to “destabilise” the Middle East. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Kremlin says Ukraine ceasefire could be prolonged
Kremlin aide Iouri Ouchakov told press Friday that France, Germany, Russia, and Ukraine, at a meeting on 2 October, could extend the duration of the Minsk ceasefire pact. The ceaesfire, to which the EU has tied its Russia economic sanctions, is due to expire at the end of the year. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Slovakia, Ukraine condemn Nord Stream 2 project
The premiers of Slovakia and Ukraine on Thursday condemned a deal to expand the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that delivers natural gas directly from Russia to Germany, bypassing the two countries. After meeting, Ukraine’s Arseniy Yatsenyuk called the plan “anti-European and anti-Ukrainian.” Slovakia’s Robert Fico said his...
[Ticker] Nominees announced for 2015 Sakharov prize
The European Parliament’s Sakharov prize nominees have been announced as Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, Somali activist Edna Adan Ismai, the assassinated former Russian PM Boris Nemtsov, Ukrainian pilot imprisoned in Russia Nadiya Savchenko, three whistle-blowers (Edward Snowden Antoine Deltour and Stéphanie Gibaud), and anti-Chavez coalition...
[Ticker] Poroshenko, Putin, Merkel, Hollande to meet on Ukraine
The government leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France spoke on the phone on Wednesday about the Ukraine conflict and are planning peace talks in Paris on Friday 2 October, the Kremlin said. The diplomatic effort was announced after a monitoring mission reported that the war was getting deadlier. …read more Source:...
Ukraine war becoming bloodier, dirtier
UN says war in Ukraine claimed more civilian lives in past three months than in spring, with both sides guilty of war crimes and torture. …read more Source:...
Ukraine refuses to yield to Russia on EU trade
Kiev has said there is no chance of postponing its EU free-trade pact despite Russia’s threats, amid wider assertions of Ukrainian sovereignty. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Tension mounts as EU-Ukraine free trade deadline approaches
EU, Russian, and Ukrainian experts are to draft a paper by October, tabling “practical solutions” addressing Russia’s concerns on the impact of the EU-Ukraine free trade treaty, which enters into force next year. Trade ministers will also meet in November, in a bid to avoid Russian trade sanctions on Ukraine. …read more...
[Ticker] France raises prospect of lifting Russia sanctions
French leader Hollande told press in Paris Monday the ceasefire in Ukraine is being “almost … respected” and that he wants French, German, Russian, and Ukrainian leaders to meet in Paris this month on the peace process. “If the process succeeds I will support the lifting of sanctions”, he noted. …read more...
