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    Russia prepares countermeasures to Western sanctions
    Aug05

    Russia prepares countermeasures to Western sanctions

    Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged his government to come up with countermeasures to Western sanctions imposed against Russia over the Ukrainian …read more Source:...

    ‘Heavy fighting’ erupts in Donetsk
    Aug05

    ‘Heavy fighting’ erupts in Donetsk

    Heavy fighting has erupted in a suburb of the eastern Ukraine rebel bastion of Donetsk, local officials say. …read more Source:...

    Ukraine: Army ready to storm Donetsk and Luhansk
    Aug05

    Ukraine: Army ready to storm Donetsk and Luhansk

    Ukrainian troops have reached the eastern cities of Donetsk and Luhansk and are getting ready to take them by storm, Ukraine Security …read more Source:...

    Switzerland adopts Russia blacklist
    Aug05

    Switzerland adopts Russia blacklist

    Switzerland is blacklisting dozens of influential Russians and pro-Russian separatists in line with EU sanctions over Ukraine. …read more Source:...

    Ukraine: Pro-Russians ‘Hampering Medics’
    Aug05

    Ukraine: Pro-Russians ‘Hampering Medics’

    Human Rights Watch accuses pro-Russian supporters of positioning fighters near hospitals which then become targets. …read more Source: Sky...

    Bulgaria returns Georgieva to Commission
    Aug05

    Bulgaria returns Georgieva to Commission

    Bulgaria’s President Rosen Plevneliev today (5 August) put forward Kristalina Georgieva for a second term as Bulgaria’s European commissioner, a decision announced at the same time as he unveiled a caretaker government. Georgieva has won widespread respect for her performance as European commissioner for humanitarian aid and emergency...

    Major Dubinyak: Kiev ‘gave up on us’, full-scale civil war in south-eastern Ukraine
    Aug05

    Major Dubinyak: Kiev ‘gave up on us’, full-scale civil war in south-eastern Ukraine

    The command in Kiev has blatantly abandoned a group of more than 400 soldiers encircled by the self-defense forces, the senior Ukrainian …read more Source:...

    Ukrainian refugee numbers soar
    Aug05

    Ukrainian refugee numbers soar

    The number of people fleeing the war in eastern Ukraine to other parts of the country has jumped from 2,600 to 102,600 inside two months, the UN reports. …read more Source:...

    Russia might close its airspace to EU flights
    Aug05

    Russia might close its airspace to EU flights

    Author(s): Dan Alexe donetsk_cossacks.jpg Russian authorities are examining the possibility of imposing an airspace ban against all European airlines that fly above Russia, in retaliation for EU sanctions that have targeted Russia’s low-cost airline Dobrolyot, which operates flights to Crimea, the Ukrainian territory annexed by Russia in...

    “We would hurt ourselves by imposing sanctions on Russia”
    Aug05

    “We would hurt ourselves by imposing sanctions on Russia”

    If Serbia decided to join sanctions against Russia, it would end up harming its own interests, presidential foreign policy adviser Ivan Mrkić has said. The issue of the country’s stance toward the EU and Moscow “must not be be formulated as ‘either-or’,” the former foreign minister argued in an interview for the...