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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...
Ukraine accuses Russia of ramming tugboat as passage is blocked in Kerch Strait near Crimea
The Ukrainian navy claims one of its tugboats was rammed by a Russian coast guard vessel. …read more Source:...
Ukraine accuses Russia of ‘ramming tugboat’ off Crimea
Ukraine has accused Russia of ramming one of its tugboats off the coast of Crimea in “openly aggressive actions”. …read more Source: Sky...
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 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...
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 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...
Ukraine claims Russia ‘rammed our tugboat’ off Crimea
Russia blocks Ukrainian access to the Sea of Azov after “provocative” Ukrainian action. …read more Source:...
New Crimea flashpoint as Russia blockades strategic waterway to stop Ukrainian ships
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