Section: The United Kingdom
UK spends £500k to give Ukraine 3,500 first aid kits (…and they’ll cost £35k to deliver)
BRITAIN will gift Ukraine 3,500 first aid kits with a value of nearly half a million pounds, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has announced. …read more Source:...
UK to send first aid kits to Ukraine
The UK is to send 3,500 first aid kits to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon announces, as conflict continues with pro-Russian separatists. …read more Source:...
With one eye on Moscow, Europe presses Ukraine on reforms
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union pressed Ukraine authorities on Monday to overcome political feuding and implement promised reforms as it looks to shore up the country’s democratic and economic credentials. …read more Source:...
Kiev Airport Cyberattack ‘Originated In Russia’
Malware which infected the airport’s network has been compared a virus that plunged parts of Ukraine into darkness in December. …read more Source: Sky...
Kerry to travel to Switzerland, Middle East, Asia: State Department
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Zurich on Jan. 20 to discuss Syria and Ukraine with his Russian counterpart before heading to Davos for the World Economic Form, the State Department said on Friday. …read more Source:...
Celebrating the Malanka winter festival – in pictures
Villagers in Krasnoilsk, western Ukraine, celebrate Malanka, the old New Year’s Eve. According to the Julian calendar it falls on 13 January, and is marked with two days of festivities to symbolise the release of spring … …read more Source: The...
Greece, refugee crisis and Brexit? No this ISN’T the end of the EU insists defiant Juncker
TOP Brussels bureaucrat Jean-Claude Juncker today defiantly insisted this year isn’t “the beginning of the end” for the European Union despite the problems mounting up for the 28-member bloc. …read more Source:...
Perimeter protection business booms in tandem with Europe’s refugee crisis
Many of the security systems at the perimeter protection trade fair, previously the preserve of protective states, are now being deployed in homesAnyone who steps unwanted over the threshold of a property with a Peperosso atomiser installed can expect an immediate burning sensation as chilli paprika is sprayed in their face. The instruction...
Referendum madness
ONE dodgy referendum lost Ukraine Crimea. Another threatens to lose it the European Union. On April 6th the Dutch public will vote on the “association agreement” the EU signed with Ukraine in 2014. The deal cements trade and political links with one of the EU’s most important neighbours; the prospect of losing it under Russian pressure...
Ukraine says would sign power contract if Crimea part of Ukraine
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine is ready to sign a new contract to supply Crimea with electricity provided the region is recognized as part of Ukraine, President Petro Poroshenko told reporters at a news conference on Thursday. …read more Source:...
