Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)
Three Ukrainian Civilians Reported Killed Ahead Of Paris Talks
Ukrainian rebels on June 23 accused government forces of killing three civilians in attacks launched hours before the start of talks in Paris on ways to stop the separatist conflict. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russia Is Biggest Force Against Democracy In Eurasia, Report Finds
Russia saw its biggest loss of democracy in a decade last year, while it and other authoritarian states took aggressive action to block efforts to form new democracies elsewhere in Europe and Eurasia, a new report by Freedom House finds. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Exiled Yanukovych Accepts Some Responsibility For Maidan Killings
Ukraine’s former president Viktor Yanukovych said June 22 he accepts some responsibility for the killings that led to his overthrow in February 2014. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Putin Says Shelling Must Stop In East Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin has told French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel that Ukrainian forces must “immediately” stop shelling in Eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Two Kyiv Branches Of Russian Bank Damaged By Blasts
Two branches of Sberbank in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, were damaged by explosions early on June 22. No casualties were reported. The Russian bank has come under attack several times since the start of the crisis in Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Stoltenberg: NATO To More Than Double Size Of Elite Force
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said on June 22 that the alliance will approve plans this week to more than double the size of its rapid-response force. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Military: Two Ukrainian Servicemen Killed In Past 24 Hours
The Ukrainian military says two of its servicemen have been killed and three wounded in fresh separatist attacks in the east. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
EU Extends Russia Sanctions, Launches Libya Mission
EU foreign ministers have approved the extension of economic sanctions on Russia over its involvement in Ukraine by six months, until the end of January 2016. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russia’s Patrushev Says U.S. Engineered Ukrainian ‘Coup’
A senior Russian security official says the United States spent $5 billion on a “destabilization project in Ukraine” in order to “create an instrument to weaken Russia dramatically.” …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Two Servicemen Reported Killed In Eastern Ukraine
Ukraine’s military says two of its soldiers have been killed and six wounded in fighting between government forces and separatists in the country’s east. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
