UPDATE 1-Ukraine to investigate suspected cyber attack on energy grid
KYIV Ukraine will investigate a suspected cyber attack on its power grid, the energy ministry said on Thursday, an incident the country’s secret service has blamed on Russia.
KYIV Ukraine will investigate a suspected cyber attack on its power grid, the energy ministry said on Thursday, an incident the country’s secret service has blamed on Russia.
DONETSK (Sputnik) — Almost 4,000 civilians were killed and over 6,000 were injured so far on the territory of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic in the ongoing armed conflict in eastern Ukraine, the DPR defense spokesman said Thursday.
(Adds Putin, quotes, confirmation of sabotage)
What went on in Ukraine in 2015 (after Russia sneaky-invaded the country in early 2014 and annexed Crimea) was not a Cold War or frozen conflict, where the shooting and killing lie either in the past or in a potential future. Nor was it a hot, high-intensity fight in which two countries spent their blood, toil, tears, and sweat on an existential battle to the death. It wasn’t even an American-style quagmire like Vietnam, Iraq, or Afghanistan.
People walk past Christmas trees near the Bell tower of the Cathedral of St. Sophia in central Kyiv.
Ukrainian police arrested a haredi Orthodox couple from Israel at a Kyiv airport after finding more than two pounds of marijuana in their luggage.
Ukrainian police arrested a haredi Orthodox couple from Israel at a Kyiv airport after finding more than two pounds of marijuana in their luggage.
Posted: Thursday, December 31, 2015 6:39 am
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Updated: 10:02 am, Thu Dec 31, 2015.
Ukraine, which marks Christmas on 7 January in accordance with Orthodox Christian tradition, has begun a national debate about whether it should also celebrate on 25 December, a step that would bring it into line with western Europe.