Section: RTÉ News (Ireland)
14 dead after fire on two vessels off Crimea
Fourteen people were killed and five are missing off Crimea in the Black Sea after a fire engulfed gas tankers sailing under the flag of Tanzania, authorities said. …read more Source: RTÉ...
Russia expands economic sanctions on Ukraine
Russia has expanded its economic sanctions on Ukraine, adding more than 250 people and businesses to a blacklist first announced at the start of November. …read more Source: RTÉ...
EU extends sanctions on Russia over Ukraine conflict
EU leaders extended punishing economic sanctions against Russia over the conflict in Ukraine for another six months on Thursday, amid heightened tensions between Kiev and Moscow over their Azov Sea clash. …read more Source: RTÉ...
Ukraine bans entry of Russian men aged 16 to 60
Ukraine has banned Russian adult men aged 16 to 60 from entering Ukraine, the head of the border service Petro Tsygykal said in a televised meeting today. …read more Source: RTÉ...
Trump pulls out of Putin meeting due to Ukraine crisis
US President Donald Trump has suddenly canceled a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin scheduled for this week’s Group of 20 industrialised nations summit in Argentina, citing the current Ukraine crisis. …read more Source: RTÉ...
Russia must answer for role in MH17 downing – Johnson
Boris Johnson has said Russia must answer for its actions after a report into the shooting down of a civilian flight over eastern Ukraine in 2014 said the missile involved belonged to a unit of the Russian army. …read more Source: RTÉ...
Missile from Russia armed forces downed MH17
Prosecutors investigating the downing of flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014 said they had identified the missile used to shoot down the plane as coming from Russia’s armed forces. …read more Source: RTÉ...
15 EU member states to expel Russian diplomats
Fifteen EU member states, as well as the US, Canada and Ukraine, are expelling more than 100 Russian diplomats, in response to the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Salisbury in England earlier this month. …read more Source: RTÉ...
Brexit model could influence Turkey and Ukraine deals
An EU agreement with Britain on relations after Brexit could serve as a model for ties with other countries that want to be as close as possible to the bloc but are not yet ready to join, such as Ukraine and Turkey, Germany’s foreign minister has said. …read more Source: RTÉ...
Johnson and Lavrov clash in Moscow talks
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and his Russian counterpart clashed over Crimea and Moscow’s alleged cyber attacks on the West, as the two men met in Moscow. …read more Source: RTÉ...
