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Ukraine claims Russian coast guard vessel rammed its navy tugboat off coast of Crimea
Ukraine has accused Russia of using a coast guard vessel to ram one of its navy tugboats off the coast of the annexed Crimea. …read more Source: London Evening...
Affair unlikely to disappear any time soon, says analyst ahead of key test for PM Babiš
Prime Minister Andrej Babiš faces a test this week, with his government set to face a no-confidence vote on Friday. The vote follows a scandal involving Mr. Babiš’s son, who says he was forcibly taken to Crimea. The PM attempted to smooth over the scandal by visiting his son in Switzerland at the weekend – but the whole affair may not die...
Russia border guards rammed our tugboat, says Ukrainian navy
Moscow says ships illegally entered its waters, off Crimea, deliberately provoking conflictUkraine’s navy has said Russia’s border guards rammed one of its tugboats in the Black Sea off Moscow-annexed Crimea in an “openly aggressive action”.Ukraine said the incident took place as three of its ships, including two small warships, were...
Ukraine claims Russia ‘rammed our tugboat’ off Crimea
Russia blocks Ukrainian access to the Sea of Azov after “provocative” Ukrainian action. …read more Source:...
Ukraine bank offers 21% interest rate for doing 10,000 steps a day
Ukraine’s Monobank offers best rates to clients who do 10,000 steps a dayAs any saver knows, interest rates can go up as well as down. But they normally do so in conjunction with the economic cycle, and not with the physical activity of the account holder.Now, a Ukrainian bank is offering better rates of interest to customers who prove they...
Trans rights activists attacked with pepper spray during Ukraine march
Kiev demonstration was interrupted by far-right protesters who threw smoke bombs into the crowdTwo activists have been attacked with pepper spray in Kiev during a transgender rights march that was interrupted by dozens of far-right protesters.About 30 people were taking part in the demonstration in the Ukraine capital, holding rainbow flags and...
Revisited: Five years on, what has Ukraine’s Maidan Revolution achieved?
The “Winter on Fire” of 2013-2014 saw Ukrainians oust a kleptocratic leader in violent protests, in the name of closer ties with the EU and adherence to its values of good governance. What did they achieve? Our reporter Gulliver Cragg, who covered the protests at the time, went to meet some of those whose lives were profoundly...
Serhii Plokhy: ‘Chernobyl exposed Soviet secrecy’
‘I remember the horror,’ says Baillie Gifford non-fiction prize-winner, who lived through the 1986 nuclear disasterSerhii Plokhy, who on Wednesday won the Baillie Gifford non-fiction prize for Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy, always intended to write about the world’s worst nuclear disaster, not least because he lived through it. “I...
Ukraine is outsourcing law enforcement to private companies that don’t respect human rights
Odessa Municipal Guard dismantling decorative fencing on the territory of “Dom Pavlovyh” guest house. Photo by Konstontin Puzilovskiy, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. A series of incidents involving Ukraine’s municipal guards are adding up one after another, with ever more citizens demanding they be outright banned. After the...
Ukraine activist Kateryna Handzyuk dies from acid attack
Campaigner’s death sparks protests and EU concern about violence against civil societyA Ukrainian anti-corruption activist has died from wounds caused by an acid attack, sparking local protests and concern from European officials over growing violence against civil society.Kateryna Handzyuk’s investigations into police graft and...
