Russia will withdraw from consultations with the Netherlands and Australia over the MH17 flight shot down over Ukraine in 2014, complaining of ‘vicious’ attempts to pin blame on Moscow. ‘Hostile acts by the Netherlands have made any continuation of the trilateral consultations and our participation senseless,’ Russia’s foreign ministry said in a statement on Thursday. … Read more
Back to business! Kate Middleton is elegant in a blue belted dress as she joins Prince William to welcome Ukraine’s president and First Lady to Buckingham Palace in their first audience since lockdown Duke and Duchess of Cambridge met Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Kate Middleton and Prince William’s first audience at the palace since lockdown … Read more
Boy, two, dies a week after dogs ripped off his genitals as his parents celebrated his birthday in Ukraine Two-year-old Yegor died without regaining consciousness in Ukrainian hospital His heart stopped beating after doctors had reported a slight improvement Tragedy unfolded in the town of Selydove after boy walked outside unnoticed By Roksana Panashchuk For … Read more
A Ukrainian air force cadet today told how he was the miracle lone survivor in a plane crash in which 26 died when he felt he was ‘in a computer game’. Vyacheslav Zolochevskyi stayed alive despite a fireball explosion when an Antonov An-26 military aircraft with a ‘faulty engine’ came down one mile short of … Read more
Cadet who JUMPED from crashing Ukrainian plane before it hit the ground is pulled from wreckage ALIVE and fights for life in hospital after 22 died in disaster Two cadets survived the initial crash in Ukraine on Friday by jumping out of the aircraft in mid-air Both cadets were taken to hospital after the crash … Read more
At least 22 people including Army cadets are killed as military plane crashes in Ukraine with two more people left seriously injured Transport plane was carrying 28 passengers when it crashed and caught on fire in town of Chuhuiv, Ukraine Deputy Interior Minister said ‘it’s impossible to establish the cause’ of the crash which killed 22 … Read more
Look out below! 250 British paratroopers jump into Ukraine in joint exercise with its army in show of force against Putin Around 250 Colchester-based soldiers dropped into the Ternivsky training area Troops parachuted into the country from 600ft from C-130 Hercules transport MoD said it built on strong relationship between Ukraine and UK’s armed forces Tensions … Read more
Double-amputee’s wife is asked to take her husband’s severed legs away from Ukrainian hospital in a sack The woman was told to ‘take the legs’ because doctors had no disposal facilities A friend said the woman fainted after taking the severed limbs away in a sack Her case has sparked a scandal in Ukraine amid … Read more
Belarus’s embattled president Alexander Lukashenko says he has placed the military on high alert and will close borders with Poland and Lithuania amid fears of a ‘war’. The strongman, known as Europe’s last dictator, appealed to the ‘crazy leaders’ of both countries, plus Ukraine, not to let conflict break out, saying it ‘will not resolve … Read more
Around 2,000 Hasidic Jews have gathered at Ukraine‘s border with Belarus where their annual pilgrimage has been barred due to coronavirus restrictions. Kiev has accused President Alexander Lukashenko of manufacturing the crisis by giving the pilgrims hope that they could cross the frontier in retaliation for Ukraine’s support for the recent pro-democracy protests. Despite Ukraine’s … Read more