Section: France 24 (France)
Putin calls for ‘statehood’ talks on eastern Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday sharply raised the stakes in the Ukraine conflict by calling for the first time for statehood to be considered for the restive east of the former Soviet state. …read more Source: France...
EU mulls Russia sanctions as Kiev warns of ‘full-scale war’
The European Union threatened Russia with new trade sanctions if Moscow fails to start reversing its action in Ukraine, but sharp divisions among leaders at a summit in Brussels left the timing of any measures uncertain. …read more Source: France...
Poland’s Tusk, Italy’s Mogherini set for top EU jobs
Polish PM Donald tusk became president of the European Council and Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini was appointed the bloc’s diplomacy chief at a Brussels summit on Saturday at which EU leaders also considered new sanctions on Russia. …read more Source: France...
EU leaders meet in Brussels to seek a response to Russia
European Union leaders gather in Brussels Saturday to hammer out a robust response to Russian incursions in east Ukraine and to appoint new candidates to key EU posts, including a replacement for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton. …read more Source: France...
Ukraine death toll mounts as Kiev plans to join NATO
The UN said nearly 2,600 people have died in eastern Ukraine in the past five months, as growing evidence of Russian involvement coincided with intensified fighting. The embattled Ukrainian government now wants to join the Western military alliance. …read more Source: France...
Mapping Ukraine: Canada and Russia in ‘tweet for tat’ row
Russia’s permanent mission to NATO on Thursday posted a map on Twitter showing the Crimean peninsula as part of Russia, in response to a map Canada published earlier to “help” Russian soldiers who keep getting “accidentally” lost in Ukraine. …read more Source: France...
Russian troops have entered Ukraine, says Kiev
“Russian forces have entered Ukraine,” the country’s president declared Thursday, cancelling a foreign trip and calling an emergency meeting of his security council. Reports from separatist rebels to NATO and US officials backed up that assessment. …read more Source: France...
Ukraine calls on NATO amid rebel counter-attack
Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine were seen advancing against government forces on Wednesday, while more and more Western officials backed up Kiev’s claims that Russian army units are operating inside the country. …read more Source: France...
Ukraine’s Poroshenko to meet Putin for crisis talks
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko will meet his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, for talks on Tuesday, just hours after it was announced that 10 Russian paratroopers had been captured on Ukrainian soil. …read more Source: France...
Ukrainian president calls snap vote, dissolves parliament
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko on Monday dissolved parliament, calling for early elections on October 26 as his country continues to grapple with a pro-Russia insurgency in the east. …read more Source: France...
