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[Ticker] Putin: My troops could reach Warsaw in two days
Russia’s Putin recently told Ukraine’s Poroshenko: “If I wanted to, Russian troops could, in two days, be not only in Kiev but also in Riga, Vilnius, Tallinn, Warsaw and Bucharest”, Germany’s Sueddeutsche reports, citing an internal note by the EU foreign service on Poroshenko’s meeting with EU commission head...
[Ticker] German firm offers reward for MH17 information
German anti-fraud firm Wifka has posted a $30mn reward, put up by an anonymous client, for information on who shot down MH17 in Ukraine. It said it would pay the money into a Swiss account and help “to give the whistleblower a new identity”. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] EU welcomes self-rule for pro-Russia rebels in Ukraine
The EU has welcomed Ukraine’s decision to give self-rule and amnesty to pro-Russia rebels despite criticism it will create a frozen conflict. The EU foreign service said the laws mean Russia must now reciprocate by disarming the separatists and pulling its force out of Ukraine in line with peace accords. …read more Source:...
Ukraine gives rebels ‘special status’, ratifies EU treaty
Ukraine has granted semi-autonomy to pro-Russia rebels, the same day as ratifying a strategic EU treaty. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] EU and Ukrainian parliaments ratify treaty
The European Parliament and the Ukrainian assembly have ratified an EU association and free trade agreement in a joint session set up by video-link. The trade part enters into life in 2016 under an EU-Russia-Ukraine deal to put off Russian trade penalties and lifting of Ukraine tariffs on EU goods. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Nobel prize winner: Putin makes me sick
Nobel literature prize winner Herta Mueller, a German author who grew up in Communist Romania, said during a literature festival in Denmarkthat what Russian president Vladimir Putin is doing in Ukraine “makes me sick”. She said Putin should ensure Russian “people have teeth and shoes” instead of waging wars. …read...
[Ticker] Kiev offers special status to eastern regions
The Ukrainian government has tabled a draft law that would grant “special status” to the breakaway Donetsk and Luhansk regions for three years. The bill includes amnesty for those involved in the fighting, Russian as an official language, local elections, subsidies and the right to form local police forces. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Pro-EU Ukrainians outraged by trade deal delay
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is being criticised by his supporters for bowing to Russian pressure and postponing the implementation of an EU free trade deal. “I am speechless. The last time this happened, we had EuroMaidan,” central Dnipropetrovsk region deputy governor Svyatoslav Oliynik wrote in a Facebook post. …read...
[Ticker] EU far right monitors Russian vote in St Petersburg
Russian daily Novaya Gazeta reports that far-right EU parties sent monitors to local elections in St Petersburg this weekend. The monitors, many of whom blessed the Crimea referendum in March, came from Austria, Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Italy, and Poland. They said the St Peterbsurg vote was fair despite NGO complaints. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] EU and Ukraine to ratify treaty despite agreement on delay
The EU commission said Monday the EU and Ukrainian parliaments will Tuesday ratify the EU-Ukraine free trade treaty despite an agreement with Russia to delay its implementation until 2016. A commission spokeswoman noted the delay is “pertaining to concerns raised by Russia” but won’t harm “the integrity” of the pact....
