Section: The Independent (The United Kingdom)
The Independent is a UK national daily newspaper. It was founded in 1986. Its
headquater is in London, UK. The owner of The Independent is Russian
businessman Alexander Lebedev. News about Ukraine are usually Additional
reporting by Associated Press, Reuters.
The official website is The Independent
MH17 crash: Investigators find parts of BUK missile possibly used to shoot plane down
Parts of a BUK missile launcher possibly used to shoot down Malaysia Airlines flight 17 have been found in Ukraine. …read more Source: The...
Britain to double number of Ukrainian troops it is training as Russian backed separatists launch biggest assault in six months
Britain will double the numbers of Ukrainian troops it is training, it has been announced, as Russian backed separatists launched their biggest assault in six months against government forces. …read more Source: The...
Russia bans foreign-made condoms (to make couples more disciplined lovers)
Condoms have been added to a list of imported items that the Russian Industry and Trade Ministry have considered banning amid its continuing feud with the West over the Ukraine conflict. …read more Source: The...
MH370: Why investigators are so confident that the debris is that of the missing plane
The first crash-landed at Heathrow in 2008 with no loss of life; the second hit a sea wall at San Francisco during a botched landing in 2013, killing three passengers; and all 298 died when the third was shot down over eastern Ukraine a year ago. Those are the only three confirmed cases of Boeing 777s that have been destroyed. In each case the...
Russian frigate’s missile misfires and spins wildly out of control at Navy Day celebration in Crimea
Vladimir Putin has just approved a new version of Russia’s maritime doctrine calling for a strong Russian presence in the Atlantic Ocean – but the former KGB man’s latest military display won’t leave NATO quaking in its boots just yet. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine tops list of countries with the worst relations with neighbours
As the bloody conflict in Ukraine which has claimed the lives of 6,000 continues to rage, the nation has topped a list of countries with the worst relations with their neighbours. …read more Source: The...
Ukrainian gay couple pepper-sprayed while holding hands in Kiev – but that’s not the main message in latest social experiment video
A man sits on his partner’s lap, holding a bunch of flowers as the gay couple chat on a bench on Khreshchatyk Street, the main street in Kiev, Ukraine. …read more Source: The...
Ukrainian gay couple hold hands around Kiev in response to Moscow social experiment
A man sits on his partner’s lap, holding a bunch of flowers as the gay couple chat on a bench on Khreshchatyk Street, the main street in Kiev, Ukraine. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine crisis: ‘Putin is obsessed with the idea of testing Nato’ – and the Baltics will be next, says Odessa governor Mikheil Saakashvili
At first sight it seemed an improbable appointment: a man who had served twice as president of neighbouring Georgia, parachuted in as governor of a single region of Ukraine. But for the government in Kiev, beset in the east by pro-Russian rebels, and facing entrenched corruption and an array of powerful oligarchs elsewhere, it was an obvious...
Ukraine crisis: Shelling resumes in residential districts of Donetsk as rivals blame each other for breaking fragile ceasefire
An outbreak of shelling in residential districts of Donetsk, the eastern Ukrainian city under pro-Russian separatist control, has led to renewed claims by both sides that the other has violated the gradually disintegrating ceasefire. …read more Source: The...
