Section: CTV (Canada)
Russia clashes with U.S. and West over conflict in Ukraine
Russia clashed with the United States and its Western allies Thursday over the nearly seven-year conflict in eastern Ukraine, and the UN warned that the current fragile cease-fire risks being reversed if peace negotiations become deadlocked. …read more Source:: CTV...
Iran allocates payments of US$150,000 to families of Ukraine crash victims
Iran’s cabinet has created a compensation fund to pay the families of the 176 victims of a Ukrainian passenger plane that was shot down by Iranian forces outside Tehran last January, the president announced Wednesday. …read more Source:: CTV...
Ukraine seeks World Heritage status for Chernobyl zone
More than three decades after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster forced thousands to evacuate, there is an influx of visitors to the area that has spurred officials to seek official status from UNESCO. …read more Source:: CTV...
Hunter Biden subpoena seeks info on Burisma, other entities
A subpoena seeking documents from Hunter Biden asked for information related to more than two dozen entities, including Ukraine gas company Burisma, according to a person familiar with a Justice Department tax investigation of U.S. president-elect Joe Biden’s son. …read more Source:: CTV...
Ukraine’s Zelensky tests positive for coronavirus
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday he tested positive for the novel coronavirus but felt fine as infections surged in the country. …read more Source:: CTV...
Ukraine activist in nude protest against Polish abortion ban
A member of radical feminist group Femen staged a naked protest outside the Polish embassy in Kyiv on Monday against a near-total ban on abortion in the EU country. …read more Source:: CTV...
‘Catastrophically short of doctors’: Virus surges in Ukraine
Coronavirus infections in Ukraine began surging in late summer, and the ripples are now hitting towns like Stebnyk in the western part of the country, where Dr. Natalia Stetsik is watching the rising number of patients with alarm and anguish. …read more Source:: CTV...
A virus surge in Ukraine puts hospitals under strain again
Coronavirus infections in Ukraine began surging in late summer, and the ripples are now hitting towns like Stebnyk in the western part of the country, where Dr. Natalia Stetsik is watching the rising number of patients with alarm and anguish. …read more Source:: CTV...
Lawyer: Russian suspect denies involvement in downing MH17
One of the suspects charged in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014 denies any involvement and wants to speak in court to explain his version of events, his lawyer said Monday as the trial in absentia of three Russians and a Ukrainian resumed in a Dutch courtroom. …read more Source:: CTV...
Ukraine plane crash death toll rises to 26, with 1 survivor
Searchers combing the area where a Ukrainian military aircraft crashed found two more bodies on Saturday, bringing the death toll to 26. One person survived. …read more Source:: CTV...