Section: The News Tribune (USA)
US secretary of state says Russia must honor Ukraine deal
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Thursday that Russia must abide by a 2015 deal aimed at ending fighting between Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed separatists as the Trump administration … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The News...
Ukraine’s president vows to resume coal supply from east
Ukraine’s president has pledged to resume coal supplies from separatist-controlled parts of the country. Fighting in Ukraine’s industrial east between government troops and Russia-backed rebels has killed more than 9,800 … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The News...
Donetsk residents say OSCE monitors inffectual
About 1,000 residents of Ukraine’s largest rebel-held city have demonstrated outside the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s office there to complain that the monitoring mission in the conflict … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The News...
Ukrainian author seized in Belarus, ordered to leave
A noted Ukrainian poet and novelist says he was seized by security agents in the middle of the night while visiting the capital of Belarus and ordered to leave the … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The News...
Kremlin: no Ukraine ‘deal’ with US possible
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman is rejecting suggestions that the Kremlin and the Trump Administration may try to negotiate a deal over the war in eastern Ukraine. Last week saw … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The News...
7 Russian sailors, 1 Ukrainian kidnapped in Nigerian waters
The Russian embassy in Nigeria says seven Russian sailors and a Ukrainian have been kidnapped from a cargo ship in Nigerian waters. It comes less than three months after three … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The News...
Separatist commander assassinated in eastern Ukraine
A prominent rebel leader in eastern Ukraine has been killed in an explosion in his office, his associates said on Wednesday. The rebels’ Donetsk News Agency said Mikhail Tolstykh, better … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The News...
Putin, Merkel call for cease-fire in eastern Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have called on Ukrainian troops and separatist rebels to cease fire in eastern Ukraine. In their first phone call since a … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The News...
Fighting abates in eastern Ukraine, OSCE says
International monitors say fighting in eastern Ukraine has abated but the warring sides have kept heavy weapons near the front line. Alexander Hug, deputy head of the monitoring mission of … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The News...
Conflict challenges, climate change on agenda of EU-US talks
The European Union’s foreign policy chief says the Middle East, Ukraine and climate change are among the topics she plans to raise in upcoming talks with senior U.S. officials. Federica … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The News...
