Ukraine

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on Monday prolonged economic sanctions against Russia for six months for failing to live up to its commitments to the peace agreement in Ukraine.The measures target Russia’s financial, energy and defense sectors, as well as goods that can be used for both civilian and…

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WARSAW/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union’s top court on Thursday upheld sanctions against Russia’s second-largest bank VTB (VTBR.MM), dismissing the lender’s appeal against the restrictive measures the bloc had first imposed in 2014 over the turmoil in Ukraine. The sanctions restrict the bank’s access to some financial transactions and to…

FILE PHOTO: Ukrainian Health Minister Maksym Stepanov attends an interview in Kiev, Ukraine April 29, 2020. Picture taken April 29, 2020. REUTERS/Sergiy KarazyKYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine is opening more of its hospitals to coronavirus cases as the institutions initially chosen to accept patients no longer have enough beds to cope…

FILE PHOTO: A medical worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) gets out of the infectious disease ward at the Oleksandrivska Clinical Hospital, where Olena Zelenska, the wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, is presumably being treated after contracting the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Kyiv, Ukraine June 16, 2020. REUTERS/Valentyn OgirenkoKYIV…

KYIV (Reuters) - Torrential rains in Ukraine have killed three people, forced hundreds from their homes and cut off villages in western regions, authorities said on Wednesday.While many were trying to guard their property, about 800 people had been evacuated since the rains began on Monday, said Interior Minister Arsen…

STOCKHOLM, June 23 (Reuters) - Furniture retailer IKEA said on Tuesday it would review its wood supply chain in Ukraine after a report by a non-governmental organisation (NGO) alleged illegal logging in the Carpathian mountains, home to endangered lynx and brown bears. The report by Earthsight alleged IKEA suppliers illegally…

Photo: ShutterstockMy boyfriend is a ketchup guy. You know, the kind of guy who puts ketchup on a lot of things, some of which feel a little inappropriate. (It really bugs me when he puts it on mashed potatoes, for instance.) But love means accepting, even celebrating, your partner’s idiosyncrasies,…

By Maria Vasilyeva and Margaryta ChornokondratenkoMOSCOW/KYIV (Reuters) - The targeting of colonial-era monuments in some Western nations has prompted activists in Russia and Ukraine to reflect on how their own countries dealt with Soviet-era statues and, in some cases, to ask whether it was good enough.Protesters have toppled or vandalised…

Updated 3 months ago · Published on 21 Jun 2020 8:07AM · French bulldogs can fetch C$4,000 each in Canada, where puppy sales are ‘lucrative’, says a University of Guelph expert. – EPA pic, June 21, 2020. CANADA has launched an investigation after some 500 puppies – 38 of them…