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      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...

      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:...

      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...

      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:...

      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...

      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:...

      Separatists fire on Ukraine troops returning from Russia: Kiev
      Aug05

      Separatists fire on Ukraine troops returning from Russia: Kiev

      KIEV (Reuters) – Pro-Russian separatists opened fire on unarmed Ukrainian soldiers on Tuesday as they crossed back into Ukraine from Russia where they had taken shelter from fighting, Kiev defense officials said. …read more Source:...

      “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...

      Yanukovych challenges EU sanctions
      Aug05

      Yanukovych challenges EU sanctions

      Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraine’s former president, is challenging sanctions imposed against him through both Europe’s top human-rights court and the top court of the European Union. Russian and Ukrainian media reported this morning (5 August) that Yanukovych, who fled Kiev on 21 February, had lodged an appeal with the European Court of...

      Russia may ban EU from using its airspace
      Aug05

      Russia may ban EU from using its airspace

      The move, reported by local press, would be a clear retaliation against sanctions Europe has placed on Russian companies over Moscow’s role in the Ukraine crisis …read more Source: Financial...