Section: International Business Times (USA)
Italy Says No Agreement Made At G20 To Extend Russia Sanctions
ROME (Reuters) – No agreement was reached among leaders at this month’s Group of 20 summit in Turkey to extend sanctions against Russia over its intervention in Ukraine, Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said on Thursday. A senior European diplomat told Reuters this week that Western leaders at the G20 in Antalya agreed on the...
Russian Sanctions: Norway Oil Drilling Firm Strikes Deal With Russia’s Rosneft Despite Sanctions
MOSCOW/OSLO, Aug 22 (Reuters) – Russia’s top crude oil producer Rosneft will sell drilling rigs to Norway’s North Atlantic Drilling Ltd (NADL) in return for shares in the firm, going ahead with an earlier agreed deal despite sanctions over Ukraine. Rosneft and its head Igor Sechin, a long-standing ally of Russian President...
Ukrainians Protest Against Europe, Saying It Abandoned Maidan For Russia
KIEV, Ukraine — Five months ago, Kirill Marlinski was on the streets of Kiev, demanding closer ties to the European Union. Now, he’s demonstrating in the streets again, but this time against European countries. Like many other activists in the Euromaidan revolution that ousted president Viktor Yanukovych, he blames Europeans for...
Ukraine Crisis: Fighting Breaks Out Near Donetsk Airport, Train Station
Clashes between Ukrainian government troops and pro-Russian separatists intensified in Donetsk on Thursday, with battles breaking out near the city’s main train station and airport. French freelance photographer Antoine E.R. Delaunay posted a photo to Twitter showing heavy smoke between the train station and airport in Donetsk, a city of...
UPDATE: 5 Pro-Russian Rebels Killed Near Solvyansk, Putin Calls Ukraine’s Use Of Military Force ‘Serious Crime;’ Obama Says US Has Prepared Additional Sanctions Against Russia Over Ukraine As 150 US Troops Land In Poland
Update as of 6:34 a.m. EDT: Five pro-Russian rebels were killed in a clash at a checkpoint in the eastern Ukraine city of Slovyansk, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing Ukraine’s interior ministry, and added that Russian President Vladimir Putin had called Ukraine’s use of military force a “serious crime.” The...
G7 Willing To Step Up Sanctions On Russia Over Ukraine
(Reuters) – The world’s leading industrialized nations threatened on Wednesday to impose harder-hitting sanctions on Russia if it does not help restore stability to eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russian militias continue to operate at will. While Ukraine was able to hold a largely peaceful presidential election last month, the situation...
Russia Says It Will Respond If Ukraine Interests Attacked
KIEV (Reuters) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the United States Wednesday of being behind the political upheaval in …read more Source: International Business...
Obama Shows Support For Ukraine’s New Leader Poroshenko, While Separatists Take Two Military Bases In Luhansk
U.S. President Barack Obama met Ukraine’s President-elect Petro Poroshenko in Warsaw on Wednesday and discussed how the U.S. could help, with the exception of supplying weapons, in its fight against pro-Russia separatists who have waged a violent uprising against Ukraine’s newly elected government over the past few weeks. …read...
Ukraine Says It Has US Approval To Take On Pro-Russian ‘Aggressors’
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s government relaunched a security operation to crack down on pro-Russian armed groups after an Easter pause on Wednesday and said it had the backing of the United States …read more Source: International Business...
Poland’s Prime Minister Says There’s A Real Risk Of A Ukraine Split
WARSAW (Reuters) — There is a real risk that eastern regions of Ukraine will separate from the country, Poland’s Prime Minister …read more Source: International Business...
