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MH17: Russia claims to have airfield witness who blames Ukrainian pilot
Russian investigators announce anonymous testimony of Ukrainian warplane taking off with air-to-air missiles and returning without them on 17 JulyRussian investigators announced on Wednesday that they had new proof from a witness that a Ukrainian pilot fired a missile on the day of the Malaysia Airlines crash which killed 298 people.The witness,...
Crimea hit by blackout amid electricity crisis
Ukraine blames peninsula for exceeding consumption …read more Source: Financial...
Russia reveals Ukraine ‘MH17 witness’
Russian investigators say they have evidence Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 may have been downed by a Ukrainian pilot, but Kiev rejects it as fake. …read more Source:...
Russia says Nato turning Ukraine into ‘front line of confrontation’
Russia threatens to sever remaining ties with Nato if Ukraine joins …read more Source: The...
Russia says Ukrainian pilot behind MH17 crash
Ukrainian pilot fired a missile on the day of the Malaysia Airlines crash, Russian investigators have claimed …read more Source: The...
Ukraine warns of more power cuts if mild weather fades
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine will be forced to implement more power cuts if the weather gets sharply colder, Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said on Wednesday. …read more Source:...
Ukraine talks due after Nato vote
The warring parties in eastern Ukraine are set to resume talks on ending the conflict, a day after MPs in Kiev vote to work towards Nato membership. …read more Source:...
2014: the year in numbers – from five to 700 billion
Credits: GIANLUIGI GUERCIAAlt Text: Oscar Pistorius on day of verdict Five years in jail for Oscar Pistorious, 6,800 dead from Ebola, 551m voters in India Briefing Wednesday, December 24, 2014 – 10:13am By any standards, 2014 was a dramatic year. A new fault line opened between Russia and the West after Moscow annexed the Crimea, the...
Russia says NATO pushed Ukraine to give up neutral status
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said NATO pushed Ukraine to give up its neutral status as Kiev seeks closer ties with the Atlantic bloc and said the move, approved by Ukraine’s parliament this week, would “complicate the situation”. …read more Source:...
Rebels say new Ukraine peace talks to take place on Wednesday
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A meeting of a so-called contact group aimed at ending violence in eastern Ukraine is planned for Wednesday, Russian state television quoted Denis Pushilin, vice speaker of the separatists’ “People’s Council” leadership body, as saying. …read more Source:...
