Section: Foreign media focused on Latvia
NATO to act against Kremlin’s hybrid warfare; Baltic states to ask for NATO battalions
The alliance has to adapt to the combination of conventional warfare, subversion and cyber-warfare used by Russia in Ukraine, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has announced on May 14 at a meeting of NATO member state defence ministers. …read more Source: Baltic News...
Rinkevics: Riga’s summit will support Ukraine’s reform endeavours
“Latvia does not recognize the illegitimate annexation of Crimea. Ukraine should be allowed to freely determine the orientation of its foreign policy. Riga’s summit will express clear support to Ukraine’s reform endeavours,» – said Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics during a meeting of NATO-Ukraine Commission. …read...
Poroshenko asks Facebook to open office in Ukraine amid reports on its Russia office censoring content of pro-Ukrainian users
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has asked Facebook to open the company’s office in Ukraine amid Ukrainian users complaining that Facebook’s Russia office is biased in moderating the user content from Ukraine. …read more Source: Baltic News...
Russia’s opposition: At least 220 Russian soldiers have fallen in war in Ukraine
In 10 months of the war in Ukraine, at least 220 Russian soldiers have been killed in eastern Ukraine and Russia has spent 53 billion rubles (950 milion euros) supporting its soldiers and separatist rebels, according to the report Putin. War drawn up by the murdered Russian oppositian Boris Nemtsov and his aides. …read more Source: Baltic...
Kuchma: Minsk talks resulted in serious steps towards political solution for war in Ukraine
Serious steps have been taken into the direction of resolving the war in Ukraine with a political solution, former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma said after talks in Minsk with pro-Kremlin separatists on Wednesday. …read more Source: Baltic News...
U.S.: Russia deploys more air defence systems in Ukraine’s east
The U.S. has on Wednesday, April 22, accused Russia for deploying additional air defence systems in Ukraine’s east in breach of the current Minsk truce. …read more Source: Baltic News...
Yanukovych’s ally shot dead in Ukraine
Former Ukrainian MP Oleh Kalashnikov – also an ally of ousted President Viktor Yanukovych – has been found dead shot wounds in Kyiv on Wednesday, April 15. …read more Source: Baltic News...
Ukraine and Russia agree on withdrawal of more weapon types from front line
In a situation, when the truce in the war in Ukraine is threatened by increased fighting, Ukraine and Russia have on Monday, April 13, agreed to call for more types of weapons to be moved away from the front line. …read more Source: Baltic News...
Amnesty International reports of summary killings in Ukraine tantamount to war crimes
Non-governmental human rights organisation Amnesty International has announced it has proof pro-Kremlin separatists have carried out summary killings of four Ukrainian soldiers held captive. …read more Source: Baltic News...
Ukrainian President: we can stop Putin, but only if we are given arms
Supporters of the so-called People’s Republic of Donetsk are preparing their forces for battle – under such conditions, western countries should help Ukraine with arms, believes the first president of independent Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk. At the same time, he does not guarantee that those arms will not end up in the hands of separatists, as...
