Section: Macedonia
Ukraine PM demands putting troops on full combat alert
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk called on the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff to put troops on full combat alert Monday, media reports say. …read more Source: Macedonian Information...
Biden, Poroshenko speak by phone about Ukraine’s conflict
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko spoke by telephone on March 14 with both calling on Russia and Russian-backed separatists fighting in eastern Ukraine to implement the Minsk ceasefire agreements. …read more Source: Macedonian Information...
NATO naval drills start in Black Sea after one-day delay
NATO’s Black Sea members Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey joined four other alliance states in a multinational naval exercise on Tuesday just across the water from the Crimean Peninsula annexed by Russia last year. …read more Source: Macedonian Information...
Putin reveals secrets of Russia’s Crimea takeover plot
Vladimir Putin has admitted for the first time that the plan to annex Crimea was ordered weeks before the referendum on self-determination, the BBC reports. …read more Source: Macedonian Information...
Stoltenberg: Sending NATO troops to Ukraine not on agenda
Sending NATO troops to the Ukraine is not on the agenda, Alliance Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told Finnish TV station MTV3 during a visit to the country. …read more Source: Macedonian Information...
Libya asks U.N. for arms, jets, tanks to battle Islamic State: letter
Libya has sought permission from the United Nations to import 150 tanks, two dozen fighter jets, seven attack helicopters, tens of thousands of assault rifles and grenade launchers and millions of rounds of ammunition from Ukraine, Serbia and Czech Republic, Reuters reports. …read more Source: Macedonian Information...
More than 30 killed in coal mine blast in rebel-held east Ukraine
A blast at a coal mine in the eastern Ukrainian rebel stronghold of Donetsk killed more than 30 people, a local official said on Wednesday, with dozens more miners who were underground at the time unaccounted for, Reuters reports. …read more Source: Macedonian Information...
Obama extends a number of sanctions against Russia
US President Barack Obama has extended sanctions imposed previously against Russia over the Ukraine crisis for a year. …read more Source: Macedonian Information...
Ukrainian President awards captured Nadiya Savchenko with nation’s highest honor
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko awarded “Gold Star Hero of Ukraine”, the country’s highest honor, on Nadiya Savchenko, a pilot who was captured by pro-Russian separatists and is on trial in Russia. …read more Source: Macedonian Information...
Russia and Ukraine to discuss summer gas supplies late this month
Russia and Ukraine have agreed to discuss a “summer package” of gas supplies late this month, with Kiev winning an assurance at Monday’s EU-mediated talks in Brussels that it would not pay for energy delivered to rebel-held areas, Reuters reports. …read more Source: Macedonian Information...
