Section: Daily Mail (The United Kingdom)
Shell hits a passenger bus near Donetsk in Ukraine
An attack on a passenger bus in eastern Ukraine has killed at least 11 civilians in a tragedy likely to deal the final blow to hopes that a short-lived and shaky cease-fire could take hold. …read more Source: Daily...
Is this the proof that Russia shot down flight MH17? New documentary claims plane was hit by Buk surface-to-air missile launcher operated by 53rd Russian Air Defence Brigade
Searching For The Truth, a documentary produced by CORRECT!V, offers fresh testimonies from military experts and residents of East Ukraine to produce a compelling account of the events of July 17 last year. …read more Source: Daily...
Nuclear reactor shutdown at Ukraine’s biggest power station after ‘electrical malfunction’
One of six reactors at the Zaporizhia power station in the south-east of the country was automatically disconnected by the plant’s ‘internal defence mechanism’ at 6am yesterday morning. …read more Source: Daily...
Vladimir Putin takes swipe at West over Ukraine
Vladimir Putin used his end-of-year speech today to launch a stinging attack on the West, but his attempts to reassure the markets after days of economic turmoil failed to produce any gains. …read more Source: Daily...
Russia hikes interest rate to 17 PER CENT in effort to prevent collapse of rouble
The announcement was made at 1am Moscow time and comes after the rouble’s value sunk 50 per cent since January – battered by plunging global oil prices and Western sanctions over Ukraine. …read more Source: Daily...
Egypt second in the world for arrested journalists: Reporters Without Borders
A photojournalists with his mouth tapped holds up his camera as he demonstrates with fellow colleagues in front of the journalist’s syndicate in Cairo against repeated attacks on members of the press in Egypt on April 4, 2014.(AFP File Photo) Reporters Without Borders (RWB) ranked Egypt as the second country in the world for the number of...
Putin ‘sabotaging next-door states’: Merkel accuses Russian president of ‘creating problems’ for countries that want closer ties with the EU
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that Russia was creating problems for Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine – three countries that have decided to sign an association agreement with the EU. …read more Source: Daily...
Mikhail Gorbachev accuses America of firing up new Cold War and calls militarists to leave Europe out of conflict as the tanks keep rolling into Donetsk
Mikhail Gorbachev has accused America of firing up a new Cold War while Russian tanks rumble into Ukraine’s eastern region amid a ceasefire deal between Ukrainian forces and separatist rebels. …read more Source: Daily...
Brown bear spotted in Chernobyl for first time in 100 years
The bear was photographed by an automatic camera trap in the exclusion zone around the Ukrainian nuclear power plant, scene of one of the world’s worst nuclear accidents. …read more Source: Daily...
Mother of MH17 passenger sues Ukrainian authorities for ‘negligent homicide’
The German woman, whose daughter – named as ‘Olga L’ – was killed when the plane was downed over eastern Ukraine in July, began legal proceedings in the past week, it was reported. …read more Source: Daily...
