Section: RTÉ News (Ireland)
Ukraine’s Prime Minister tenders resignation
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk tendered his resignation in a televised broadcast. …read more Source: RTÉ...
Ukrainian pilot found guilty of journalist deaths
A Russian court has found Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko guilty of complicity in the killing of two Russian journalists, a verdict certain to inflame already dire relations between the two countries. …read more Source: RTÉ...
Two dead, five missing in French Alps avalanche
A 14-year-old French boy and a Ukrainian man were killed when an avalanche in the French Alps swept away skiers, including a school group, leaving three seriously injured and five still missing. …read more Source: RTÉ...
Russia to sue Ukraine over debt
Russia’s finance ministry has said it is suing Ukraine for defaulting on a $3bn debt, following an order by President Vladimir Putin. …read more Source: RTÉ...
Crimea without electricity after pylons blown up
Crimea has been left without electricity supplies from Ukraine after pylons carrying power lines to the Russia-annexed peninsula were blown up overnight. …read more Source: RTÉ...
Crashed South Sudan plane in ‘no state to fly’
The decades-old Antonov plane that crashed in South Sudan, killing at least 36 people, “was is no state to fly”, the Ukraine-based aircraft company said. …read more Source: RTÉ...
Flight MH17 ‘shot down by Russian-made missile’
Flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine by a Russian-made Buk missile, the Dutch Safety Board has said. …read more Source: RTÉ...
Pro-Russia rebels in Ukraine postpone elections
Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine today postponed local elections that the government had said were illegitimate and which, if they went ahead, could have derailed Ukraine’s fragile peace process. …read more Source: RTÉ...
Obama and Putin discuss Ukraine and Syria
US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin shook hands today at United Nations headquarters and went into their first substantial bilateral talks in two years. …read more Source: RTÉ...
Rebels order UN agencies to leave Ukraine
Pro-Russian rebels have ordered UN agencies working in the separatist stronghold of Lugansk in east Ukraine to leave the area by today, the UN aid chief said. …read more Source: RTÉ...
