Tag: Ukraine

Malaysian FM to visit Ukraine

A government team led by Malaysian Foreign Affairs Minister Anifah Aman is expected to meet the Ukraine president, vice president and foreign minister on...

Ukraine, rebels argue over MH17 wreckage

Ukraine alleges Russia and pro-Moscow rebels have destroyed evidence as foreign observers and guerrillas face off over access to wreckage Obama calls loss of MH17...

Ukraine says Russia helping destroy crash evidence

  KIEV, Ukraine Ukraine is accusing Russia of assisting separatist rebels in destroying evidence at the crash site of a Malaysia Airlines plane shot down with...

Global anger intensifies over downed Malaysia Airlines jet

GRABOVE- Anger deepened around the world Friday with the United States demanding an “unimpeded” international inquiry after a Malaysian passenger jet was apparently shot...

Ukraine prime minister says Russia unable to split EU, US

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said on Thursday new sanctions imposed on Moscow by the United States and the European Union showed Russian attempts...

Malaysian airliner ‘shot down’ over Ukraine, 295 dead

Boeing 777 was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was targeted near Donetsk city, a stronghold of pro-Russian rebels

Ukraine says Russian army officers fighting with rebels

Ukraine on Monday accused Russian army officers of fighting alongside separatists in the east of the country and said Moscow was once more building...

At least four servicemen killed in eastern Ukraine

  At least four Ukrainian servicemen were killed and 12 wounded overnight in the military campaign against pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country,...

EU signs ‘historic’ accords with Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova

EC head Van Rompuy says deals contain ‘nothing that might harm Russia in any way’ The European Union signed “historic “association accords with Ukraine, Georgia...

New battles as Ukraine says 300 separatists killed in fighting

Fighting raged for a second successive day in the east of Ukraine on Friday, a day after clashes in which Ukrainian government forces said...

Separatists shoot down Ukraine plane, 49 killed

LUGANSK- Pro-Russian gunmen shot down a Ukranian military transport plane Saturday in the separatist east, killing all 49 people on board in the biggest...

World leaders gather for D-Day tribute, hope for thaw on Ukraine

    COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER -   World leaders and veterans paid tribute on the 70th anniversary of the World War Two D-Day landings to soldiers who fell in the...

Ukraine military launches offensive against rebels

  LOVYANSK-   Ukrainian troops on Tuesday launched an offensive against pro-Russian insurgents in the eastern city of Slovyansk and advanced through the city's outskirts, the nation's...

Obama to meet Ukraine’s Poroshenko in Poland

US President Barack Obama will meet Ukrainian president-elect Petro Poroshenko in Poland on Wednesday, a US official said. The meeting will take place during a...

Ukraine’s new leader vows to crush insurgency

Ukraine’s future pro-Western president vowed on Wednesday to quickly crush a bloody eastern insurgency even as his country faced a fresh crisis with the...

30 insurgents killed in eastern Ukraine, says rebel

DONETSK- An insurgent says 30 bodies of killed fighters have been brought to a hospital following a day of heavy fighting in Donetsk in...

Ukraine defends vote despite unrest, Putin pledges ‘respect’

Ukraine's interim government promised a clean presidential election on Sunday that would anchor the former Soviet state in the Western camp and show the...