Section: France
What we know of Frenchman’s ‘plot to attack Euro 2016’
Ukraine intelligence services claimed on Monday they had thwarted a plot to carry out a wave of attacks at Euro 2016. As French authorities investigate those claims, here’s what we know. …read more Source: The Local...
Ukrainian secret service say they have arrested a French national in Ukraine suspected of planning terror attacks during Euro 2016
Our journalists are working on this story and will update it as soon as more information becomes available. …read more Source:...
Frenchman planned to hit Euro 2016 with ’15 terror attacks’
Authorities in Ukraine say they have helped to thwart some “15 terrorist attacks” in France that were to be committed in the run up to and during Euro 2016. …read more Source: The Local...
French suspected terrorist held in Ukraine
A Frenchman is being held in Ukraine after being caught transporting a large quantity of explosives and weapons across the Polish border. He admitted plans to launch terror attacks in France, sources told a French TV channel that cited evidence that he had far-right sympathies. …read more Source: Radio France...
‘Normandy Quartet’ agrees on OSCE mission, says Poroshenko
Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko said on Friday the leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine — the “Normandy Quartet” — have agreed on… …read more Source:...
France red cards Ukraine’s Euro 2016 mascot
Travelling to Europe is an expensive and laborious process for Ukrainians, but for Euro2016 the fans have been extra-motivated. The Bobenchyk family… …read more Source:...
Ukraine nursing home fire kills 17
In Ukraine, 17 people have been killed after a fire broke out at a nursing home for the elderly near Kiev. Eighteen others were rescued from the… …read more Source:...
Leaders ‘influenced Putin’ over Savchenko release, say Ukraine pilot’s lawyers
Lawyers for Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko, who was “freed in Russia and brought home to Kyiv on… …read more Source:...
Russia-Hungary meeting ahead of EU sanctions decision
Budapest has reiterated its resistance to an automatic extension of EU sanctions on Russia. It comes as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov… …read more Source:...
Russians jailed in Ukraine return to Moscow in Savchenko exchange deal
In contrast to the rapturous scenes in Kyiv amid “the return of freed Ukrainian servicewoman Nadiya… …read more Source:...
