Section: The Guardian (The United Kingdom)
Vladimir Putin to hold national phone-in after Russians charged over MH17
Newscasters will cautiously press Russian president on the economy, protests and foreign relations in choreographed eventRussian President Vladimir Putin will address the nation in a live televised broadcast on Thursday, one day after a Dutch-led investigation accused four Russian-back separatists in the 2014 shooting down of a passenger jet over...
MH17 suspects: Dutch reveal backgrounds of Ukraine separatists
Details emerge of the former Russia militia leaders and Ukrainian facing murder charges over missile attackDutch-led investigators have named four Russian-backed separatists as their first suspects for the shooting down in 2014 of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over east Ukraine.The four men include former military officers who occupied senior...
MH17: Four suspects named for shooting down plane – video
Four suspects, three of them Russians, will face murder charges for the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, international investigators have said. A trial is due to start next March in the Netherlands. The suspects were named as Igor Girkin, a former colonel of Russia’s FSB spy service; Sergey Dubinskiy, employed by...
MH17 court case will finally set truth on record
Legal process essential even if those charged over killing of 298 passengers never go to jailWash kits, bags of duty-free shopping and sections of overhead compartment lay strewn across the fields. In one spot, there was a stack of holiday reading. The perfectly intact body of a young Malaysian boy had landed outside a babushka’s...
Three Russians and one Ukrainian to face criminal charges over MH17
Dutch prosecutors file the first criminal charges over the 2014 downing of flight MH17 over east Ukraine which killed 298 peopleFour suspects will face murder charges for the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, three of them Russians, international investigators said on Wednesday, with a trial due to start next March in the...
MH17: prosecutors to identify suspects and file first charges
Dutch-led inquiry is expected to name first four suspects over 2014 downing of flight that left 298 people dead Dutch prosecutors are set to identify suspects and file the first criminal charges over the 2014 downing over east Ukraine of flight MH17 that left 298 people dead in the worst atrocity in five years of war between Ukraine and...
Chernobyl now: ‘I was not afraid of radiation’ – a photo essay
Photographer Tom Skipp visited Chernobyl and nearby Pripyat, its replacement town Slavutych, and the abandoned sites of the region – meeting the people behind the disaster: from the liquidators who worked at the fallout site, to the resettlers and the community who live and work in the area nowI arrived in Ukraine on the eve of the...
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy calls a snap election moments after his inauguration
Ukraine’s new president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, took the oath of office on Monday and immediately announced he was dissolving parliament and calling a snap election, aiming to win seats in a legislature still dominated by politicians loyal to his predecessorUkraine’s leader takes office and immediately calls snap election…...
Ukraine’s leader takes office and immediately calls snap election
Volodymyr Zelenskiy aims to win seats in parliament where new party is not representedUkraine’s new president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, took the oath of office on Monday and immediately announced he was dissolving parliament and calling a snap election, aiming to win seats in a legislature still dominated by loyalists of his...
The big picture: national pride flourishes amid war in Ukraine
Mark Neville captures a moment full of symbolism on the fringes of the conflict in DonbassOver the past three years, London-based photographer Mark Neville has been travelling around Ukraine to work on several wide-ranging projects: one about holidaymakers in Odessa, another about people at worship, and an extensive series depicting the 2 million...
