Section: France 24 (France)
Pro-Europe parties set for Ukraine election victory
Pro-Europe parties led by a group backing President Petro Poroshenko swept a parliamentary election in Ukraine on Sunday, an exit poll showed, giving him a mandate to end a separatist conflict and pursue democratic reforms. …read more Source: France...
Ukraine votes to elect new parliament
Ukrainians voted on Sunday in an election that is expected to strengthen President Petro Poroshenko’s mandate to end a separatist conflict in the east of the country. …read more Source: France...
Video: Fighting corruption in Ukraine’s election campaign
Ukraine goes to the polls Sunday in elections set to dramatically reshape parliament after a year of violent upheavals in which a deadly pro-Russian uprising has threatened to splinter the ex-Soviet state. …read more Source: France...
Putin calls Poroshenko meeting ‘positive’ while Kremlin cites difficulties
Russian President Vladimir Putin met his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko in Milan Friday for talks amid encouraging signs the two leaders are trying to ease tensions over eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: France...
All eyes on Putin as Asia-Europe summit opens
Representatives from more than 50 Asian and European countries met in Milan Thursday for a summit on economic coopertation, though all the attention is likely to be on tense talks between Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian leader Petro Poroshenko. …read more Source: France...
Video: Serbia walks tightrope between Russia and EU
Having refused to take sides in the dispute over Ukraine, Serbian fruit growers are exempt from the sanctions Russia has slapped on other European countries. But with its EU candidacy still in its infancy, Belgrade knows it is walking a tightrope. …read more Source: France...
Deadly shelling strikes school playground in Ukraine’s Donetsk
At least four people were killed and eight others injured on Wednesday after shelling struck a school playground in the eastern Ukrainian city Donetsk on the first day of class. …read more Source: France...
Ukrainian forces killed in shelling near Donetsk airport
Seven Ukrainian soldiers were killed late on Sunday after a shell fired by pro-Russian separatists hit their armoured personnel carrier near the main airport at Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, a military spokesman said on Monday. …read more Source: France...
Ukraine’s president sets sights on EU membership
President Petro Poroshenko proclaimed reforms on Thursday spanning all aspects of life to make strife-torn Ukraine fit for European Union membership, warning his people that without reform they would face a future “alone with Russia.” …read more Source: France...
Thousands of Russians protest against Ukraine war
Thousands of Russians marched in protest against the armed conflict in Ukraine on Sunday in the first major anti-war rally since the start of the standoff between Kiev and pro-Russian rebels. …read more Source: France...
