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Nato troops start exercise in west Ukraine, weapons deliveries
Two hundred US soldiers are being deployed in west Ukraine despite the Russia-Ukraine war, while Ukraine says some Nato states have started delivering weapons to “stop Putin”. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Finland threatens EU sanctions against Israel
Finnish PM Tuomioja told Israeli media that EU sanctions on Russia over its occupation of Ukraine have prompted fresh talk of sanctions against Israel over its treatment of Palestine. “So far the EU has offered carrots … But it also seems that it needs the possibility of sticks”, he said. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Russian ‘aid’ trucks enter Ukraine
The OSCE says no Ukraine officials inspected the content of 220 white-painted Russian trucks said to be carrying humanitarian aid to rebel-held areas in the Luhansk region of east Ukraine on Friday night. The convoy is the second Russian aid effort to penetrate Ukraine without Ukraine’s permission. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Putin mocks new EU and US sanctions
Russian leader Vladimir Putin told press in Tajikistan on Friday that new EU and US sanctions are designed to “disrupt [the Russia-Ukraine] peace process” and that he is happy Russian MPs were blacklisted because it means they will stay home and work “rather than tanning somewhere at foreign resorts”. …read more...
EU puts Ukraine trade deal on legal ice
The European Union yesterday (12 September) said that it would delay the application of a trade agreement with Ukraine until the end of 2015, in a move intended to bolster the chances of Russia agreeing to a comprehensive peace deal to end the war in eastern Ukraine. The decision was announced by the European Commission hours after a meeting...
EU and Ukraine suspend historic trade pact
Ukraine and the EU are to delay the entry into life of a landmark free trade treaty for more than one year due to Russian concerns. …read more Source:...
[Ticker] Russia says EU sanctions harm Ukraine peace deal
The Russian foreign ministry said on Friday that the EU, by imposing new economic sanctions on Russia, “has made its choice against a peaceful settlement of the internal crisis in Ukraine”. It added that EU authorities “are putting them [EU citizens] under the risk of confrontation, economic stagnation, and unemployment”....
[Ticker] EU and Ukraine parliaments to ratify trade treaty 16 September
Ukraine leader Petro Porosenko has said the European Parliament and the Ukrainian assembly, the Vekrhovna Rada, will on 16 September jointly ratify the EU-Ukraine free trade pact. Ukraine’s foreign minister Pavlo Klimkin will also meet with EU and Russian delegates in Brussels on Friday to discuss implementation of the treaty. …read...
EU targets three of Russia’s major oil companies in latest round of sanctions
Russia’s three major oil companies will no longer have the ability to finance themselves with money from the European Union following the latest round of sanctions announced today (12 September). EU companies can no longer provide Rosneft, Transneft or Gazprom Neft with anything other than short-term loans, defined as being shorter than 30...
New EU sanctions, as Ukraine and separatists exchange prisoners
Author(s): Dan Alexe poroshenko_mariupol.jpg The European Union has imposed fresh sanctions on Russia, targeting some of its largest companies, in a response to Moscow’s actions in Ukraine. The military conflict between the Ukrainian government and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine has been raging since mid-April, claiming more...
