Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)
U.S. Green Card Lottery Scam Group Nabbed In Ukraine
Ukrainian investigators in cooperation with American authorities have nabbed a group involved in the U.S. Green Card Lottery scam. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Belarusians Fighting In Ukraine To Be Jailed
Belarusian citizens fighting in Ukraine’s east on either side of the conflict will be jailed. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Pro-Russian Separatists Push To Seize Donetsk Airport
Rebel forces in eastern Ukraine are pushing to capture the government-held airport in the city of Donetsk. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Life And Death In The Foxholes For The Frontline Troops In Ukraine
Ukrainian troops on the front line in Chernokhino, halfway between Luhansk and Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, reported coming under mortar and artillery attack despite the ceasefire. Speaking on September 30, they said they had suffered two dead and more than ten wounded over the previous ten days. In recent days there have been increasing...
Frustrated Ukrainian Activists Dishing Out ‘Trash-Bucket Justice’
With Ukraine’s post-Euromaidan purge of corrupt officials still yet to be signed into law, impatient activists are throwing unpopular officials into Dumpsters in a sometimes violent practice popularized on social networks as the “Trash Bucket Challenge.” …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Merkel Urges Putin To Press Separatists In Ukraine
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says Russia has a duty to exert influence on pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Europe’s Human Rights Chief Concerned For Crimean Tatars
The Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights, Nils Muiznieks, says his “biggest concern” in Ukraine is the plight of Crimean Tatars who have remained in Crimea since it was annexed by Russia in March. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Murders and Gang-Rapes: Moscow Spins OSCE Probe Into Ukraine ‘Mass Graves’
Russian media are quoting an “OSCE expert” as claiming hundreds of bodies have been exhumed from mass graves in eastern Ukraine and are accusing Ukrainian troops of brutalizing the local population. The “expert,” however, has never worked for the OSCE. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
NATO’s New Chief Says Russia Still Able To Destabilize Ukraine
New NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has said that the cease-fire in Ukraine “offers an opportunity” but says Russia still has the power to destabilize the country. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Shelling Kills Ten People in Donetsk
At least 10 people were killed by shelling in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, which is controlled by pro-Russian separatists, on October 1. The shells hit a mini-van and a school playground on the first day of the school year, but no children were killed. A shaky ceasefire has been in place since September 5. CONTAINS GRAPHIC CONTENT....
