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Ukraine to spend five percent of 2015 budget on defense and security
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine plans to spend five percent of its budget or 86 billion hryvnia ($5.5 billion) on the army and on law enforcement in 2015 and to reintroduce compulsory military service, a top security official said on Saturday. …read more Source:...
Russians ‘will not cave in’ to West
Russia says it will not “cave in” to pressure, following a fresh set of US, EU and Canada sanctions over the conflict in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Russia calls new sanctions on Crimea ‘collective punishment’
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Russian Foreign Ministry denounced new Western sanctions against Ukraine’s Crimea region on Saturday as a “collective punishment” on local residents who voted in a referendum last March to join Russia. …read more Source:...
Putin urges Russia’s secret services to tackle ‘modern challenges’
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin called on Saturday for improvement of Moscow’s secret services to tackle “modern challenges and threats” amid his country’s standoff with the West over the Ukrainian crisis. …read more Source:...
US slaps trade ban on Crimea over Russia ‘occupation’
Barack Obama says sanctions are designed to show that US will not accept annexation as Canada also imposes embargo …read more Source: The...
Hacker wars in the Ukraine conflict
Virtual battle for eastern Ukraine …read more Source:...
Obama orders ban on Crimea trade
President Barack Obama orders a trade ban with Crimea, to show the US “will not accept Russia’s occupation” of the Ukrainian region. …read more Source:...
Obama to block exports of goods, technology, services to Crimea
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Friday said he would ban exports of goods, technology or services to Ukraine’s Crimea region, and called on Russia to end its annexation of the region. …read more Source:...
Russia says deeply disappointed Obama signed new sanctions bill
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Foreign ministry said on Friday it was deeply disappointed U.S. President Barack Obama had signed into law a new bill on sanctions against Moscow over the Ukraine crisis. …read more Source:...
Five more Ukrainian soldiers killed despite truce: Kiev military
KIEV (Reuters) – Kiev’s military said on Friday five Ukrainian soldiers had been killed and seven wounded in attacks by pro-Russian separatists in the past 24 hours, a larger than normal death toll compared with recent weeks. …read more Source:...
