Section: Radio France internationale (France)
INTERNATIONAL REPORT: Fighting in Donetsk series part 1/3
Members of the Ukrainian armed forces prepare a weapon at their position located near the town of Horlivka, north of Donetsk Reuters/Oleksandr Klymenko Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko said recently that Ukraine was now in a state of what he called “real …read more Source: Radio France...
INTERNATIONAL REPORT: Fighting in Donetsk series part 2
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...
INTERNATIONAL REPORT: Fighting in Donetsk series part 1
Members of the Ukrainian armed forces prepare a weapon at their position located near the town of Horlivka, north of Donetsk Reuters/Oleksandr Klymenko Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko said recently that Ukraine was now in a state of what he called “real …read more Source: Radio France...
RUSSIA – FRANCE: France offers Russia refund on undelivered Mistrals, report
0 France has offered to pay Russia 785 million euros to scrap a contract for two Mistral helicopter carriers, whose sale has been suspended over the Ukraine conflict, on condition that it can sell them to another country, a Moscow newspaper …read more Source: Radio France...
FRANCE – EUROPE: Hollande evokes Ukraine, Middle East violence as Paris marks 70th World War II victory in Europe day
0 French President François Hollande laid a wreath on Friday at the tomb of an unknown soldier at a ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris to mark the victory over Nazi Germany on 8 May 1945. On the 70th …read more Source: Radio France...
EU – UKRAINE: Fighting overshadows EU-Ukraine leader summit
0 European leaders resisted calls from Ukraine to send a peacekeeping force to contain fighting in the east of the country on Monday as international monitors reported a surge in fighting in the eastern Donbass region. …read more Source: Radio France...
INTERVIEW: UKRAINE: US training Ukraine troops will anger Moscow, analyst
0 Some 290 US paratroopers are to start training Ukrainian troops next month, Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said on Monday. The move is likely to anger Russia, analyst Sarah Lain told RFI. …read more Source: Radio France...
FRANCE – POLAND: Valls in Poland to push arms deals as Ukraine crisis drags on
0 French President Manuel Valls began a two-day tour of Poland on Wednesday to reinforce symbolic and economic links between the two countries under the shadow of points of divergence concerning the crisis in Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio France...
FRANCE – RUSSIA – KAZAKHSTAN: French appeal court backs extradition for Kazakh oligarch Ablyazov
0 France’s top appeals court has rejected an appeal against extradition by Kazakh oligarch Mukhtar Ablyazov, an opponent of President Nursultan Nazarbayev, opening the way to his being sent to Russia or Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio France...
FRANCE – NATO – RUSSIA – UKRAINE : Hollande and counterparts agree to boost Ukraine monitoring
0 France, Germany and Russia have agreed with Ukraine to intensify international monitoring efforts at ten of the most sensitive sites in the east of the country, Ukraine said Tuesday, a day after France and Nato flexed rhetorical muscles about military …read more Source: Radio France...
