Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)
Ukraine Names Hroysman Acting Prime Minister
The Ukrainian government has officially named Volodymyr Hroysman as the country’s acting prime minister. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
EU Expected To Add More Names, Entities To Ukraine Sanctions List
The European Union on July 25 is expected to add to its sanctions list 15 Ukrainian and Russian individuals and 18 entities over their role in the Ukraine crisis. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Watchdog Warns Kyiv Of War Crimes Over Grads Use
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Ukraine to stop using unguided rockets which it said have killed at least 16 civilians in several recent attacks. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
As Attention Focuses On Dead, Ukraine Crash Site Remains Gray Zone
As the world’s attention focuses on the sad task of burying the dead, the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in Ukraine remains unsecured and barely open to investigators. That could make it increasingly difficult to ever prove decisively what brought the plane down. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukrainian Parties Quit Parliament Coalition, Trigger Election
Two Ukrainian parties have quit the majority coalition in parliament to allow President Petro Poroshenko to start the procedure for new parliamentary elections. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Donetsk Rebel Commander Admits Having Buk Missiles
In a July 22 interview with Reuters, pro-Russian separatist commander Aleksandr Khodakovsky admitted the separatists had the type of antiaircraft missiles believed to have been used to shoot down a Malaysian airliner over eastern Ukraine. Khodakovsky, the commander of the insurgents’ Vostok Battalion, told Reuters he “knew a Buk was...
Communist Faction In Ukrainian Parliament Dissolved
Ukrainian parliament speaker Oleksandr Turchynov has dissolved the Communist faction in the parliament. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Amsterdam Remembers MH17 Victims In Silent March
Dressed in white, Amsterdam residents walked silently through the city’s streets on July 23 in memory of the victims of downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, 193 of whom were Dutch. Flags on government and private buildings flew at half mast as mourners released hundreds of white balloons into the sky from the capital’s Dam Square....
EU Envoys To Discuss Tougher Russia Sanctions
European Union ambassadors on July 24 are due to discuss widening sanctions on Russia after the downing of a Malaysian airliner in eastern Ukraine, allegedly by Moscow-backed rebels. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
U.S. Senators Urge Naming Donetsk People’s Republic Terrorist Organization
Less than a week after a Malaysian airliner was shot down over Ukraine, a group of influential U.S. senators has urged the president to impose more severe sanctions on Russia and consider designating Ukraine’s separatists a “foreign terrorist organization.” …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
