Section: The United Kingdom
Yukos ruling adds to Russia isolation
EU and US prepared to ramp up sanctions over Ukraine as oil group arbitration ruling comes under fire in Moscow …read more Source: Financial...
Flight MH17: International monitors ‘sick and tired’ of not being able to reach crash site – video
International monitors working in eastern Ukraine express their frustration on Monday after being denied access to the crash site of flight MH17 for a second day. The deputy leader of the mission says the OSCE and aviation experts must have access to the site because there are still bodies and body parts there. The observers were stopped en route...
VIDEO: UN warning over Ukraine conflict
Nick Childs reports on the intensification of fighting in the east of Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Russia, Germany up diplomatic battle over Ukraine sanctions
MOSCOW/BERLIN (Reuters) – As fighting intensified in Ukraine on Monday, a diplomatic battle also raged, with Berlin warning that new European sanctions would send a “strong signal” to Moscow, and Russia saying the measures could only boost its economic independence. …read more Source:...
Britain sends 1,300 to eastern Europe in ‘Exercise Black Eagle’ as Cameron warns of economic ‘pain’ from Russia sanctions
A major Nato exercise is being planned in Eastern Europe in a further show of strength by the Western alliance in the face of Russia’s continuing ‘destabilisation’ of Ukraine. …read more Source: Daily...
MH17 Black Boxes: Plane ‘Hit By Shrapnel’
The doomed airliner suffered catastrophic loss of pressure after being hit by fragments from a missile, says Ukraine. …read more Source: Sky...
New EU sanctions against Russia could be applied within days, No 10 signals
UK expects sanctions to be applied to Russia’s banking, defence and hi-tech energy sectors over Kremlin’s role in MH17 disasterRussia could be hit with European Union sanctions on its banking, defence and hi-tech energy sectors within days over its role in the Malaysia Airlines disaster, Downing Street has signalled. …...
New EU sanctions against Russia could be applied within days, No 10 signals
UK expects sanctions to be applied to Russia’s banking, defence and hi-tech energy sectors over Kremlin’s role in MH17 disasterRussia could be hit with European Union sanctions on its banking, defence and hi-tech energy sectors within days over its role in the Malaysia Airlines disaster, Downing Street has signalled. …...
UK says EU sanctions deal ‘closer’
European Union talks on tougher sanctions against Russia because of the situation in Ukraine are “moving in the right direction”, No 10 says. …read more Source:...
Ukraine claims more territory as fight intensifies with rebels
KIEV/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukraine said on Monday its troops had wrested more territory from pro-Russian rebels, advancing towards the site where Malaysian flight MH17 was brought down, which international investigators said they could not reach because of the fighting. …read more Source:...
