UPDATE 1-Ukraine detains Russian tanker over Kerch Strait incident - Yahoo Finance

July 25, 2019

Russia Ukraine UPDATE 1-Ukraine detains Russian tanker over Kerch Strait incident - Yahoo Finance Latvia blocks Russian portal over threat to sovereignty of Ukraine - 112 International SBU detains Russian tanker which blocked Ukrainian ships in Kerch Strait - 112 International Russia warns Ukraine of consequences if crew of detained tanker held - RIA - Yahoo News Ukraine seizes Russian tanker in Black Sea port in retaliation for seizure of Ukrainian boats - The Washington Post UPDATE 1-Ukraine detains Russian tanker over Kerch Strait incident - Yahoo Finance Yahoo Finance (Adds quotes, Russian criticism, Ukraine ombudswoman) KIEV, July 25 (Reuters) - Ukraine's security service said on Thursday it had detained a Russian tanker in the Ukrainian port of Izmail for its alleged involvement in an incident in November in the Kerch Strait that led to Russia seizing three Ukrainian vessels. Read More Latvia blocks Russian portal over threat to sovereignty of Ukraine - 112 International 112 International The information portal Baltnews.lv, which belongs to the International Information Agency ‘Russia today,’ was blocked in Latvia, as Russian media reports. According to the conclusion of the Latvian Foreign Ministry, this website “threatens the territorial integrity of Ukraine, undermines its independence and sovereignty,” and therefore, the portal’s activity is a subject to sanctions of the European Union. Read More SBU detains Russian tanker which blocked Ukrainian ships in Kerch Strait - 112 International 112 International Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) along with Military Prosecutor’s Office detained Russian tanker which blocked Ukrainian Nikopol, Berdyansk and Yanu Kapu in Kerch Strait last autumn, as SBU press office reported. Read More Russia warns Ukraine of consequences if crew of detained tanker held - RIA - Yahoo News Yahoo News MOSCOW, July 25 (Reuters) - Russia's Foreign Ministry warned Ukraine on Thursday that there would be consequences if any Russian members of the crew of a Russian tanker detained in Ukraine were held in custody, RIA news agency reported. Read More Ukraine seizes Russian tanker in Black Sea port in retaliation for seizure of Ukrainian boats - The Washington Post The Washington Post The Russian tanker (C, back), now called Nika Spirit and formerly named Neyma, which was detained by the Ukrainian security service in the port of Izmail, Ukraine, is shown in this handout picture obtained by Reuters on July 25, 2019. Read More

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Halya Coynash: Russia turns mass grave into 'sightseeing location' - Kyiv Post

July 24, 2019

Russia Ukraine Halya Coynash: Russia turns mass grave into 'sightseeing location' - Kyiv Post Halya Coynash: Russia confirms an effective death sentence on Hryb - Kyiv Post Ukraine on the Cusp of Change - NewsClick Russian Wheat Optimism Is Fading as Heat Shrinks Bumper Crop - Bloomberg Ukraine president's party gets solid parliament majority - Minneapolis Star Tribune Halya Coynash: Russia turns mass grave into 'sightseeing location' - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post Halya Coynash: Russia turns mass grave into ’sightseeing location’ Published July 24. Updated July 24 at 2:29 pm A picture taken on August 5, 2018 shows a grave of a person killed in 1937 in the Sandarmokh, a memorial site in a pine forest in the Karelia region, at the Russian and Finnish border, where mass graves from the 1930's and bodies from 1940's have been found. Read More Halya Coynash: Russia confirms an effective death sentence on Hryb - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post Russia's War Against Ukraine Halya Coynash: Russia confirms an effective death sentence on Hryb Published July 24 at 10:58 am The photo, released on March 22, shows Pavlo Hryb in Russian court. Read More Ukraine on the Cusp of Change - NewsClick NewsClick The thumping victory by the Ukraine President Vladimir Zelensky’s Servant of the People party, securing an absolute majority of 253 seats in the 450 member parliament, can be viewed as a tectonic shift in the geopolitical landscape of Eurasia. Read More Russian Wheat Optimism Is Fading as Heat Shrinks Bumper Crop - Bloomberg Bloomberg Russian Wheat Optimism Is Fading as Heat Shrinks Bumper Crop BloombergWheat farmers in Russia, the world's top shipper, have started the new season a lot less optimistic than they were just a few months ago. Read More Ukraine president's party gets solid parliament majority - Minneapolis Star Tribune Minneapolis Star Tribune KIEV, Ukraine — The anti-corruption party of Ukraine's new president has won a commanding majority of seats in the national parliament, near-complete election results showed Tuesday, giving him leverage to try to enact his promised reforms. Read More

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Ukrainian ombudsman asks Russian counterpart to provide Bekirov with immediate medical aid - 112 International

July 23, 2019

Russia Ukraine Ukrainian ombudsman asks Russian counterpart to provide Bekirov with immediate medical aid - 112 International UPDATE 2-Lowest offer at Egypt's GASC wheat tender for Ukraine wheat -traders - Reuters Africa Russia-led militants fire shells at Ukrainian army positions near on July 23 - Kyiv Post Top Russian, French diplomats discuss Iran nuclear deal, Ukraine over phone - TASS UkrInform: Russian snipers target surveillance technology in Donetsk - Kyiv Post Ukrainian ombudsman asks Russian counterpart to provide Bekirov with immediate medical aid - 112 International 112 International Ukrainian political prisoner Edem Bekirov Lyudmyla Denisova, the Ukrainian ombudswoman turned to her Russian colleague Tatyana Moskalkova, urging her to provide Edem Bekirov with the immediate medical assistance. Read More UPDATE 2-Lowest offer at Egypt's GASC wheat tender for Ukraine wheat -traders - Reuters Africa Reuters Africa (Adds cost and freight offers) DUBAI, July 23 (Reuters) - The lowest offer presented at an Egyptian state tender for wheat was $198.80 per tonne free-on-board (FOB) for 60,000 tonnes of Ukraine wheat, traders said on Tuesday. Read More Russia-led militants fire shells at Ukrainian army positions near on July 23 - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post Militants fired Ukrainian positions with grenade launchers and small arms near Luhanske settlement in Donbas on Tuesday morning, the press center of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported. Read More Top Russian, French diplomats discuss Iran nuclear deal, Ukraine over phone - TASS TASS MOSCOW, July 23. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his French counterpart, Jean-Yves Le Drian, discussed over the phone on Tuesday specific steps aimed at preserving the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and the outcome of the parliamentary election in Ukraine, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported. Read More UkrInform: Russian snipers target surveillance technology in Donetsk - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post Russia's War Against Ukraine UkrInform: Russian snipers target surveillance technology in Donetsk Published July 23 at 2:46 pm A Ukrainian soldier assembles his Kalashnikov rifle after regular cleaning near a rear front dugout in the war zone near the town of Novoluhanske on June 14, 2019. Read More

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Podcast: Political Shifts In Ukraine, Political Protests In Moscow - Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty

July 22, 2019

Russia Ukraine Podcast: Political Shifts In Ukraine, Political Protests In Moscow - Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty As vice president, Biden said Ukraine should increase gas production. Then his son got a job with a Ukrainian gas company. - The Washington Post Press review: Zelensky's party wins Ukraine elections and Russia drawn into tanker war - TASS Rudy’s Private “Soldiers Of Fortune”: Inside Giuliani’s Ukrainian Campaign To Keep Trump In The White House - BuzzFeed News Ukraine's Elections Repudiate Oligarchs, Putin - The Globalist Podcast: Political Shifts In Ukraine, Political Protests In Moscow - Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty Podcast: Political Shifts In Ukraine, Political Protests In Moscow Radio Free Europe/ Radio LibertyRadio Free Europe / Radio Liberty broadcasts in 28 languages. Most of our programs are available on FM and medium-wave frequencies of local radio stations ... Read More As vice president, Biden said Ukraine should increase gas production. Then his son got a job with a Ukrainian gas company. - The Washington Post The Washington Post Vice President Joe Biden arrives in Beijing in December 2013 with his son Hunter Biden, right, and his granddaughter Finnegan Biden. (Ng Han Guan/AP) KIEV, Ukraine — As Joseph R. Biden Jr. Read More Press review: Zelensky's party wins Ukraine elections and Russia drawn into tanker war - TASS TASS Izvestia: Ukrainian President’s party wins control over parliament A new coalition based on the "Servant of the People" party that won the parliamentary elections will allow President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky to move towards the promised changes both within the country and in the foreign policy, according to experts interviewed by Izvestia. Read More Rudy’s Private “Soldiers Of Fortune”: Inside Giuliani’s Ukrainian Campaign To Keep Trump In The White House - BuzzFeed News BuzzFeed News Erik Carter for BuzzFeed News Two unofficial envoys reporting directly to Donald Trump’s personal lawyer have waged a remarkable back-channel campaign to discredit the president’s rivals and undermine the special counsel’s inquiry into Russian meddling in US elections. Read More Ukraine's Elections Repudiate Oligarchs, Putin - The Globalist The Globalist For the first time since the Orange Revolution in Ukraine in 2004, the people of Ukraine have finally voted for radical change to leave behind the type of oligarch and state corruption which rules Russia and which has controlled Ukraine under different regimes this century. Read More

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Strained Russia-Ukraine Relations Behind Delay In India's An-32 Upgrade: Report - Defenseworld.net

July 21, 2019

Russia Ukraine Strained Russia-Ukraine Relations Behind Delay In India's An-32 Upgrade: Report - Defenseworld.net Bust trust? Ernst Joerg von Studnitz, former German ambassador to Russia - RT Zelenskiy's party in spotlight as Ukraine holds snap parliament election - Reuters UINIAN: Stoltenberg says Russia has no right to veto Ukraine's movement toward NATO - Kyiv Post Hromadske: How pro-Russian oligarch Medvedchuk is regaining power in Ukraine - Kyiv Post Strained Russia-Ukraine Relations Behind Delay In India's An-32 Upgrade: Report - Defenseworld.net Defenseworld.net The reason behind the delay in the upgrade of India's fleet of An-32 aircraft is the strained relationship between Russia and Ukraine, the two countries that supply components of the aircraft. Read More Bust trust? Ernst Joerg von Studnitz, former German ambassador to Russia - RT RT In 2014, German Chancellor Angela Merkel reportedly told her American counterpart that the Russian president was living in another world, referring to the vast gap between the perceptions of Putin and the West of what was taking place in Ukraine and, more broadly, within the international system. Read More Zelenskiy's party in spotlight as Ukraine holds snap parliament election - Reuters Reuters KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainians vote in a snap parliamentary election on Sunday that could consolidate the power of new President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and hand the novice politician a stronger mandate for driving change in the war-scarred nation. Read More UINIAN: Stoltenberg says Russia has no right to veto Ukraine's movement toward NATO - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post UINIAN: Stoltenberg says Russia has no right to veto Ukraine’s movement toward NATO Published July 21 at 11:48 am NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaks at the start of a North Atlantic council meeting during the NATO Defence Ministers meeting in Brussels on June 27, 2019. Read More Hromadske: How pro-Russian oligarch Medvedchuk is regaining power in Ukraine - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post 2019 Parliamentary Election Hromadske: How pro-Russian oligarch Medvedchuk is regaining power in Ukraine Published July 21 at 11:39 am National Corps activists rally against oligarch and pro-Russian politician Viktor Medvedchuk in front of the administration of the president on the June 27, 2019. Read More

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Putin: Russians, Ukrainians are 'one people' - ABC News

July 20, 2019

Russia Ukraine Putin: Russians, Ukrainians are 'one people' - ABC News Putin: Russians, Ukrainians are ‘one people’ - Washington Post Ukrainian president floats prisoner exchange: Ukrainian filmmaker Sentsov for Russian RIA journalist - JAMnews Missing haunt Ukraine as president seeks peace with Russia - Irish Times Ukraine heads to polls on Sunday - NHK WORLD Putin: Russians, Ukrainians are 'one people' - ABC News ABC News Russian President Vladimir Putin says he believes Russians and Ukrainians constitute one nation and that the countries should find a way to integrate. Putin made the comments in an interview with the American film director Oliver Stone on June 19; material from the interview was used in a Stone film about Ukraine and the full transcript was published by the Kremlin on Friday. Read More Putin: Russians, Ukrainians are ‘one people’ - Washington Post Washington Post This photo taken on Wednesday, June 19, 2019, and distributed by Kremlin Press Service shows Russian President Vladimir Putin during an interview with American movie director Oliver Stone for his Revealing Ukraine documentary in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. Read More Ukrainian president floats prisoner exchange: Ukrainian filmmaker Sentsov for Russian RIA journalist - JAMnews JAMnews Kyiv has responded to Russia's proposal to take a “step of goodwill” The presidential administration of Ukraine has proposed Russia a prisoner exchange: Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, convicted in Russia for terrorism and recognized by a number of human rights organizations as a political prisoner, for Kirill Vyshinsky, editor-in-chief of RIA Novosti-Ukraine, who is being tried for treason in Ukraine. Read More Missing haunt Ukraine as president seeks peace with Russia - Irish Times Irish Times Roman Bilenkyi’s war in eastern Ukraine was brutally short, but his mother Lyudmyla has no idea how or when her struggle to find him will finally end. Bilenkyi took part in deadly protests on Kiev’s Maidan square that ousted Ukraine’s Kremlin-backed president Viktor Yanukovich in early 2014, prompting Russia to annex Crimea and foment a separatist conflict in the Donbas region. Read More Ukraine heads to polls on Sunday - NHK WORLD NHK WORLD Ukraine heads to polls on Sunday Ukrainian voters will go to the polls on Sunday in the first parliamentary election since President Volodymyr Zelenskiy took office in May. The focal point is whether the former comedian's Servant of the People party will gain a majority that would support his promised talks with Russia. Read More

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