Ukraine’s parliament approves new cabinet with three foreigners
Ukraine’s parliament approved the new Cabinet of Ministers at the December 2 evening session. For the first time in history,
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EU lends $186 million to reconstruct Ukraine’s major gas pipeline
The European Investment Bank, the European Union’s lending arm, is providing a $186 million loan to Ukraine’s government for modernising
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Immediate end to military action in Ukraine needed, Bulgaria tells Russia
A key condition to normalising the situation in Ukraine is an immediate end to all military action on Ukrainian territory,
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NATO chief: Russia violating Ukraine cease-fire
NATO says Russia is violating a truce in eastern Ukraine by sending in convoys with advanced weapons and personnel reinforcements
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NATO commander warns of Crimea ‘militarisation’
The top U.S. general in Europe said he is alarmed at the Russian militarization of the Black Sea peninsula of
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Ukraine’s lawmakers slow to agree on Cabinet a month after election
A month after the parliamentary election, Ukrainians are still watching the same political soap opera unravel in grinding coalition talks.
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France to send armoured unit to Poland
French defence minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said in Warsaw on November 25 that France plans to send an armoured military unit
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Political pressure mounts on Ukraine’s Poroshenko
Political pressure is mounting both at home and abroad on Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko, with critics arguing he lacks direction
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Ukraine marks anniversary of deadly 1930s famine
During a weekend commemoration for millions who died of starvation in Ukraine in the early 1930s, President Petro Poroshenko lashed
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