Section: The United Kingdom
Ukraine crisis: PM Arseny Yatseniuk resigns over his country’s precarious energy situation
Ukraine’s prime minister Arseny Yatseniuk has tendered his resignation, berating parliament for failing to pass legislation to take control over an increasingly precarious energy situation and to increase army financing. …read more Source: The...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
Moscow not arming rebels and sanctions are illegal, says ambassador
The Russian ambassador to the UK today flatly denied that Moscow was arming the Ukrainian separatists suspected of shooting down… …read more Source: The...
Poland’s defence: A front-line state
POLAND spent $4.7 billion on 48 American-built F-16 fighters, but in the event of a conflict with Russia, the safest place for the warplanes would be on a German airfield, quips a defence analyst. Threadbare Soviet-era air defences would be unable to protect Poland against an attack.With neighbouring Ukraine in turmoil, Warsaw is more acutely...
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...
German newspaper accuses David Cameron of ‘gross hypocrisy’ over EU sanctions
Welt newspaper criticises the Prime Minister’s government for calling for tougher sanctions against Russia’s Vladimir Putin yet still continuing to supply the country with arms and giving shelter to Russian oligarchs …read more Source: The...
