Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)
Crimean-Tatar TV Channel In Ukraine Blames Lack Of State Funding For Imminent Closure
Ukraine’s first and currently only television channel in the Crimean-Tatar language says it is on the brink of shutting down operations due to lack of government funding. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Kyiv Names Willow Tree After Soviet Rock Legend Viktor Tsoi
Kyiv City Council has granted a decades-old willow the status of a botanical monument in honor of Soviet rock legend Viktor Tsoi in the same neighborhood where he was filmed in a movie shot in Ukraine’s capital. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine’s Zelenskiy Asks Pope To Help Achieve Release Of Prisoners Of War
Pope Francis received Volodymyr Zelenskiy and his wife, Olena, at the Vatican on February 8. “I asked for help with the release of Ukrainians captured in the Donbas, Crimea, and Russia,” the Ukrainian president wrote on Twitter, referring to prisoners of war held by Russia and by Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine. Russia annexed the...
‘Unthinkable Things’: Documenting The Scars Of Ukraine’s Prisoners Of War
Associated Press photographer Zoya Shu, who is based in Kyiv, has been covering Ukraine’s conflict with Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, documenting the fate of prisoners of a war that has claimed more than 13,000 lives since it began in 2014. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Hungarian Foreign Minister Visits Kyiv In Effort To Mend Relations
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto says his country would like improve relations with Ukraine amid a dispute over a controversial language law. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine Turns To Germany To Transform Troubled Railways
Ukraine’s troubled railway company Ukrzaliznytsia and Deutsche Bahn have signed a 10-year memorandum of cooperation under which the German operator will plan a way forward for the state operator. Ukrainian Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk says it could lead to Deutsche Bahn jointly managing Ukrainian railways. Current Time sent two...
Ukraine-Russia Peace Pledge Followed By More Fighting, Deaths
A deal in December to halt the fighting in eastern Ukraine has been followed by the deaths of 11 Ukrainian troops in January. The leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France, and Germany met for the first time in three years, agreeing to the “full and comprehensive implementation” of existing cease-fire agreements, but this has not yet...
Kremlin Says It Has No Part In Russian Citizen Becoming ‘Prime Minister’ In Ukraine’s Separatist Region
The Kremlin has distanced itself from the naming of a Russian citizen as the separatist prime minister in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine Detains Moldovan Suspected Of Torching RFE/RL Correspondent’s Car In Lviv
Ukrainian police have detained a Moldovan national on suspicion of setting the car of RFE/RL correspondent Halyna Tereshchuk on fire in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv last month. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Court In Russian-Occupied Crimea Extends Pretrial Arrest For Pro-Ukrainian Activist
A court in Crimea has extended the pretrial detention of pro-Ukrainian activist Oleh Prykhodko. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
