Trial opens of two alleged Russian soldiers captured in eastern Ukraine

Ukraine told Russian Airlines last week to stay out.

“The delegation left [the assembly] as a symbol of protest of the continuing, unconcealable aggression of Moscow against Ukraine“, a diplomatic source told Ukrinform.

Their detention last May was a major success for Ukrainian forces, which had long maintained that Russian special forces were playing a key role in the military campaign by pro-Russian rebels. He blamed Putin for sending troops to eastern Ukraine and fueling a war that’s killed a few 8,000 people. “Veto power should not be used as an act of grace and pardon for crimes”.

– The forgotten war – ===================== Kiev has long accused Russian Federation of both orchestrating and backing the eastern insurrection in the weeks that followed its March 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s strategic Crimea peninsula.

South Sudan President Salva Kiir, who annoyed the worldwide community by skipping a similar United Nations meeting a year ago, spoke Tuesday via videoconference from his country.

Russian President Putin on Monday called for the creation of a broad worldwide coalition to fight Islamic State and other militant extremist groups.

“We’re against the war in Ukraine and Syria”.

When the annual Yalta European Strategy (Yes) forum opened in Kiev on September 12, Mr Poroshenko announced that the previous night had been the first in the whole conflict with no shelling. Local elections were scheduled to take place October. 25.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said: “Russian planes with the Russian tricolour have no business in Ukrainian airports”.

Worldwide Monetary Fund Chief Christine Lagarde praised Ukraine’s economic overhaul earlier this month.

Savchenko said the men, who were armed and masked, drove her to a hotel in the city of Voronezh where she was kept for a week before she was formally charged. In the same breathe, Lagarde stressed it was critical for Ukraine to “restore confidence” and follow through on promises made to financial institutions.