Section: France
Families desperate for news of Ukraine’s disappeared
30 August is designated International Day of the Disappeared by the United Nations and other NGOs. ‘Disappeared people’ are people who are kidnapped or killed and whose families are not told what has happened to them. …read more Source: Radio France...
Families desperate for news of Ukraine’s disappeared
30 August is designated International Day of the Disappeared by the United Nations and other NGOs. ‘Disappeared people’ are people who are kidnapped or killed and whose families are not told what has happened to them. …read more Source: Radio France...
In Ukraine, US defence chief accuses Moscow of seeking to ‘redraw borders by force’
US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Thursday the United States was committed to helping Ukraine’s military, and sanctions against Russia would remain in place until Moscow stops supporting rebels and returns Crimea. …read more Source: France...
Another death on Mont Blanc amid attempts to crack down on under-equipped climbers
The death of a Ukrainian climber on Mont Blanc marks another fatal accident in a series that have recently occurred on western Europe’s highest peak. …read more Source: The Local...
French conman arrested in Ukraine
A conman sentenced for tricking dozens of French banks and businesses into handing over millions of euros has been arrested in Ukraine after a hunt lasting more than two years. …read more Source: Radio France...
Russian deputy minister blacklisted in new EU sanctions
The European Union has imposed sanctions on three more Russians, including Deputy Energy Minister Andrei Cherezov, over the delivery of Siemens’ turbines to Moscow-annexed Crimea. …read more Source:...
‘The whole thing stinks’: Saakashvili slams Ukraine for stripping his citizenship
Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili accused Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko of bowing to pressure from a Russian oligarch to strip him of his Ukrainian citizenship in an exclusive interview with FRANCE 24 on Thursday. …read more Source: France...
Macron to make first foray into Ukraine conflict peace talks
The leaders of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany will hold telephone talks on Monday, officials said, amid a fresh flare up in fighting in eastern Ukraine between government troops and Russian-backed rebels. …read more Source: The Local...
‘Looking for Lenin’: The search for fallen Soviet statues in Ukraine
For decades of Soviet empire, statues of founding father Vladimir Lenin presided triumphantly over city squares and parks. When the USSR collapsed in 1990, thousands of Lenin statues remained on their pedestals, 5,500 of them in Ukraine alone. Today, not a single one remains standing in Ukraine. The story of what happened to these statues is the...
Anger in Kyiv as Ukraine rebels proclaim ‘Little Russia’
The leader of a pro-Russian separatist group says he wants to carve a new state from rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
