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Bildt on Ukraine and MH17: Europe woke up today
European Union foreign ministers meet with the prospect of tightening sanctions against Russia – but some still remain divided.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko holds talks with his Russia counterpart, Vladimir Putin, at a summit in Minsk, capital of Belarus, as tensions continue to mount in eastern Ukraine.
Some 100 trucks from a Russian aid convoy which crossed into Ukraine on Friday have crossed back into Russia. The incursion had been described as a “direct invasion” by Kiev.
Four protesters are arrested after a Ukrainian flag appears on a famous Russian landmark in Moscow and a golden Soviet star is painted blue.
Quizzed about his charity tennis match with the wife of a former Putin minister, Boris Johnson tells Channel 4 News: “I’ll play tennis any time – but it doesn’t seem to be imminent.”
The Netherlands, Australia and Malaysia rule out sending an international armed mission to secure the site in Ukraine where Malaysia Airlines flight MH-17 crashed, the Dutch prime minister says.
Mark Hollingsworth, co-author of ‘Londongrad: from Russia with Cash – the Inside Story of the Oligarchs’, says that it’s “very credible” that Vladimir Putin’s daughter is based in Surrey.
After one of Vladimir Putin’s daughters fled her Dutch penthouse amid outrage over the MH17 crash, there are rumours about another Putin residence on a golf course in Surrey. Cordelia Lynch reports.
From jokes over the judo to sanctions on “cronies” via conflict in Ukraine and the MH17 disaster, this clickable graphic tracks the rocky relationship between the west and Russia.
European Union foreign ministers meet with the prospect of tightening sanctions against Russia – but some still remain divided.
European leaders will gather today for a foreign ministers’ meeting that is expected to be dominated by the issues of Russia and Ukraine. But what will actually be done?
Just three investigators from Malaysian Airlines are on site in eastern Ukraine looking through the wreckage of the downed plane MH17, as the black boxes head for British experts.
The nuttiest conspiracy theory I’ve seen so far has it that flight MH17 was full of the bodies of those who died on flight MH370, the aircraft that disappeared over the Indian Ocean back in March.
Vladimir Putin’s closest allies face sanctions if the Russian president does not help secure the MH17 crash site, UK politicians warn but Mr Putin dismisses such threats.
President Barack Obama says the United States believes Flight MH17 was shot down, killing 298 innocent people in an act he describes as “an outrage of unspeakable proportions”.
Overnight, the pro-Russian rebels in Slaviansk, Ukraine, are reported to have quit the town, fighting their way out in one or more armoured convoys as the Ukrainian army attacked.