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INTERNATIONAL REPORT: Ukraine series, part 3
Pensioners queue in order to register for WFP aid. Filip Warwick With freezing nights fast approaching in eastern Ukraine, most of the 1.4 million internally displaced persons (IDP’s) will seek humanitarian assistance this coming winter. The figure, according to the European …read more Source: Radio France...
INTERNATIONAL REPORT: Ukraine series, part 2
The registration process is crossed-checked by the WFP’s NGO partners. Here a beneficiary registering at the People in Need office. Filip Warwick According to the European Commission 5 million people require humanitarian assistance in Ukraine, with 1.3 million in need of …read more Source: Radio France...
INTERNATIONAL REPORT: Ukraine series, part 1
A building destroyed during the war in Donbass, Lysychansk. Ліонкінг/CC/Wikimedia Commons The cease-fire in eastern Ukraine has been holding for the past two months however the conflict remains unresolved and continues to affect millions of people who are in dire need …read more Source: Radio France...
FRANCE – GERMANY – RUSSIA – UKRAINE: ‘Lot to lose’ as Ukraine and Russia prepare Paris summit
0 Ukraine said Wednesday it has struck a deal with pro-Russian separatists to withdraw tanks and light weapons from the frontline of the conflict in the east of the country. The Donbass region has seen its calmest period since a rarely …read more Source: Radio France...
FRANCE – EGYPT: Egypt agrees to buy Mistral warships France built for Russia
0 Egypt is to buy the two Mistral warships that France built for Russia before scrapping the sale over the conflict in Ukraine. The French government said that no losses would be incurred on the deal. …read more Source: Radio France...
FRANCE – RUSSIA: French National Assembly backs Russian Mistral sale cancellation
0 The lower house of the French parliament has approved the scrapping of the sale of two Mistral warships to Russia because of Moscow’s involvement in the Ukraine conflict. …read more Source: Radio France...
FRANCE – UKRAINE – RUSSIA: Delegation of French MPs visit Crimea despite sanctions
0 France and Ukraine are condemning a visit by 10 French MPs to Crimea this week in defiance of Western sanctions against Russia. The Ukrainian ambassador in Paris has expressed “outrage”, calling it a “lack of respect for the sovereignty and …read more Source: Radio France...
RUSSIA – EUROPEAN UNION: EU prolongs Russia sanctions but analysts dub them ineffective
0 Russia’s foreign ministry expressed disappointment at the extension of the European Union’s sanctions on Moscow over the Ukraine conflict, blaming the move on an anti-Russian “lobby”. EU foreign ministers formally agreed Monday to prolong economic sanctions against Russia until …read more Source: Radio France...
INTERNATIONAL REPORT: Fighting in Donetsk series part 3/3
An elderly woman inspects debris while standing inside her damaged house on the outskirts of Donetsk. Reuters/Alexander Ermochenko More than 6,400 people have been killed in eastern Ukraine since fighting began in April 2014 between government forces and pro-Russian separatists. …read more Source: Radio France...
INTERNATIONAL REPORT: Fighting in Donetsk series part 2/3
People attend a funeral of five fighters of the separatist self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, Donetsk on 6 June, 2015 Reuters/Alexander Ermochenko With the on-going conflict in eastern Ukraine, foreigners continue to fight alongside pro-Russia separatists of the Donetsk People’s Republic. …read more Source: Radio France...
