Section: CTV (Canada)
Forest fire hits destroyed Chornobyl reactor’s exclusion zone
Fire has engulfed a large section of the exclusion zone around the destroyed Chornobyl plant in Ukraine, Ukrainian authorities said on Tuesday. …read more Source: CTV...
Powerful Russian army is ‘guarantor of sovereignty’: Putin
Russia needs a mighty military to fend off threats near its borders, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday, a stance that reflects soaring tensions with the West over the crisis in Ukraine. …read more Source: CTV...
Canadian military training mission to take place amid crumbling Ukraine ceasefire
It will be the middle of summer at the earliest before the Canadian military fields its military training mission to Ukraine, which is likely to play out against a backdrop of escalating violence in breakaway eastern regions. …read more Source: CTV...
Diplomats seek to calm fighting in Ukraine, break stalemate
The foreign ministers of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany tried Tuesday to revive high-end diplomatic efforts to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine, amid escalating fighting that is throwing doubts on a shaky peace accord. …read more Source: CTV...
Putin says Russia to receive 40 new ICBMs this year
Russia’s military this year alone will receive over 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of piercing any missile defences, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday in a blunt reminder of the nation’s nuclear might amid tensions with the West over Ukraine. …read more Source: CTV...
War in Ukraine traps civilians in no man’s land
What Ukrainian troops call a buffer zone is a village of a few hundred people, a no man’s land patrolled by Ukrainian military, where bandits and pro-Russian separatist roam. …read more Source: CTV...
Chernobyl photographer Igor Kostin dies at 78
Igor Kostin, a Ukrainian photographer who took one of the first pictures of the ravaged Chernobyl nuclear plant after it exploded in 1986, has died. He was 78. …read more Source: CTV...
Ukraine fuel depot fire kills 1, injures several others
Ukrainian officials say that a major blaze has engulfed a fuel depot near the capital, leaving one man dead and injuring several others. …read more Source: CTV...
Ukraine says 7 soldiers killed in anti-tank mine explosion
Ukraine’s military says seven soldiers have died in eastern Ukraine after their truck hit a mine near the largest city in the war-torn east. …read more Source: CTV...
Smoke bombs thrown during clash at Ukrainian gay rights march
Opponents of a gay rights march held Saturday in Ukraine’s capital threw smoke bombs and tear gas, and nine police officers were injured in the clash. …read more Source: CTV...
