Section: LSM.LV (Latvia)
Plan to send another OSCE observer to Ukraine
Latvia plans to send an eighth civilian expert to take part in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, the Foreign Ministry said Monday. …read more Source:...
Group helps Ukrainian kids escape horror of war
This month the non-governmental organization Latvia Without Orphans (Latvija bez bāreņiem) together with volunteer families from around the country is offering seventeen more children from Ukraine the chance to visit here to try to overcome the traumas they’ve undergone in their war-torn home territories in the nation’s east....
Ukraine wants deeper ties with Latvian agriculture sector
Ukraine has an active interest in developing deeper ties and cooperation with Latvia’s agricultural businesses, Agriculture Minister Jānis Dūklavs announced in a press release following his two-day visit to Kyiv Wednesday. …read more Source:...
Former Ukraine president calls for new Marshall Plan
Viktor Yushchenko, former president of Ukraine said in an interview Sunday that the western nations were completely unprepared for Vladimir Putin’s aggressive actions against his country and called for them to supply it with lethal weapons of defense against the Russia’s offensive invasion. …read more Source:...
Strategy makers reflect on allied Russia stance
Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs told Latvian Radio Monday that the idea of a separate EU army was “laughable” while NATO infrastructure so urgently needed boosting. On his part, NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence Jānis Kārkliņš said that the EU’s response had more impact against Russia than NATO’s instruments of...
Thousands of disabled persons abandoned in war-torn east Ukraine
Latvian disability rights activist Gunta Anča delivered bloodcurdling news about the situation for the infirm and paralyzed persons of war-torn eastern Ukraine, as she told LTV news program Panorāma Sunday that thousands of these people were abandoned and left to fend for themselves without water, food, or heat amidst the chaos of the ongoing...
Steelworks hosts symbolic relaunch
Production at the once-mothballed Liepajas metalurgs steel-making plant in the coastal Kurzeme port city was relaunched symbolically Friday by its new Ukrainian owners who have merged their corporate name to the former facility so that it is now called KVV Liepajas metalurgs (KVV LM). …read more Source:...
Forge hosts symbolic relaunch ceremony
Production at the once-mothballed Liepajas metalurgs steel-making plant in the coastal Kurzeme port city was relaunched symbolically by its new Ukrainian owners that merged thir corporate name to the former facility that is now called KVV Liepajas metalurgs (KVV LM). …read more Source:...
‘Large number’ of Russian troops dying in Ukraine says Vershbow
Alexander Vershbow, the second most senior figure in NATO as its deputy secretary general, took the opportunity of a conference in Riga Thursday to claim that large numbers of Russian soldiers are dying in fighting in Eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Beness Aijo ‘on the front line’ in Ukraine
A month after he fled Latvia rather than face a court appearance on charges of plotting to overthrow the state, controversial Latvian ‘National Bolshevik’ Beness Aijo has reappeared in Eastern Ukraine where he claims there are dozens of other Latvian volunteers. …read more Source:...
