Section: CTV (Canada)
European flight safety authority wants better info sharing
Europe’s flight safety authority is calling for better, quicker and broader information-sharing about possible risks to aircraft passing over combat zones following the 2014 downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine. …read more Source: CTV...
Canadian troops train in eastern Europe amid rising attacks in war-torn Ukraine
A fresh contingent of Canadian troops has arrived in eastern Europe to take part in NATO exercises meant to reassure jittery allies and the deployment follows a spike in violence between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed separatists. …read more Source: CTV...
Ukrainian pilot on hunger strike agrees to take water
A Ukrainian pilot on trial in Russia has agreed to take water but will continue a hunger strike following an appeal by Ukraine’s president. …read more Source: CTV...
Ukrainian pilot on trial in Russia ends hunger strike
A Ukrainian pilot on trial in Russia says she has agreed to take water but will continue a hunger strike following an appeal by Ukraine’s president. …read more Source: CTV...
Ukrainian protesters demand that Russia release Savchenko
A few hundred people marched to the Russian Embassy in Kyiv on Tuesday to demand that Russia free Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, whose cause also was taken up by the U.S. vice-president and supporters elsewhere. …read more Source: CTV...
Lennon not Lenin: Ukraine renames street after late Beatle
It was only a minor tweak in the spelling but a historic change when a Ukrainian village on Wednesday renamed a street, which honoured Soviet founder Lenin, after The Beatles’ John Lennon. …read more Source: CTV...
Ukraine: 3 soldiers killed in explosion in the east
Ukrainian authorities say three soldiers have been killed and two wounded in the Donbas region in the country’s east as their car exploded. …read more Source: CTV...
Ukrainian activists protest on Kyiv’s Maidan
About 100 nationalist activists have set up tents in central Kyiv to press their calls for ousting the Ukrainian government brought to power two years ago following months of protests. …read more Source: CTV...
Conflict in Ukraine has affected 580,000 children, UN says
The conflict in Ukraine has “deeply affected” 580,000 children close to the front lines and in areas in the volatile east not under government control, the UN children’s agency said late Thursday. …read more Source: CTV...
Putin, Obama discuss Syria, Ukraine in phone conversation
Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama have held a telephone conversation about the Syrian war and the unresolved conflict in Ukraine. …read more Source: CTV...
