Section: The United Kingdom
Brazilian footballer Edmar Halowski de Lacerda, who is now Ukrainian citizen, called up to FIGHT
Edmar Halowski de Lacerda, 34, who plays for Metalist Kharkiv, admitted that he had never considered the possibility that the passport change would end up dragging him into a war. …read more Source: Daily...
MH17 crash: sanctions against Russia are illegal, ambassador claims
Moscow insists documents that show Russians armed the separatists who shot down Malaysia Airlines plane are forgedThe west is imposing “illegal, unreasonable and counter-productive” sanctions against Russia based on internet forgeries that do not prove any of its missiles shot down the Malaysian airliner, the Russian ambassador to...
Exclusive: U.N. aviation body to hold safety meeting with IATA, others – sources
MONTREAL (Reuters) – The U.N. civil aviation body, ICAO, will meet in Montreal next week with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and other agencies to discuss airline safety following last week’s downing of a Malaysian jet over Ukraine, two sources said on Thursday. …read more Source:...
Ukraine PM quits and clears way for polls
Yatseniuk rebukes parliament for betraying revolution, while EU ambassadors reach no conclusion on widening sanctions against Russia …read more Source: Financial...
Orthodox billionaire with links to Moscow and rebels
Ukraine claims the Orthodox businessman has had a hand to play in the financing of rebels in the east of the country and Russia’s annexation of Crimea …read more Source: Financial...
Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash: EU prepares tough sanctions package targeting Russian economy
Tougher sanctions designed to target key sectors of the Russian economy for the first time over the Ukraine crisis are set to be imposed on Moscow by Britain and other European Union countries. …read more Source: The...
Ukrainian prime minister Arseny Yatseniuk resigns
Yatseniuk quits as he berates parliament for failing to pass law taking control of energy sector as Russian gas supply dwindlesUkraine’s prime minister has tendered his resignation, berating parliament for failing to pass legislation to take control over the country’s increasingly precarious energy situation and to increase army...
VIDEO: Fears MH17 crash site ‘abandoned’
There are renewed calls for tighter security at the site of the Malaysia Airlines plane crash in Ukraine, after some reports it had been left abandoned. …read more Source:...
Europe needs a lesson in deterrence
Events in Ukraine illustrate how Europeans have been slow to recognise the world as it is rather than as they imagined …read more Source: Financial...
Ukraine’s prime minister quits
Ukraine’s prime minister resigns triggering early elections in the country that has been torn apart by civil war in recent months …read more Source: Financial...
