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Putin Announces Ceasefire Deal With The Ukraine
Ukraine President, Vladimir Putin, has announced ceasefire after meeting all night in Belarus with leaders of Russia, France and Germany, to secure a peace deal. The leaders of Russia and Ukraine have announced that ceasefire will begin in Eastern Ukraine on 15 February. After marathon talks with leaders of Ukraine, France and Germany, Russia...
Ukraine peace talks end
Leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France have left the negotiating room in the Belarusian capital Minsk where they were locked in all-night talks on a plan to end 10 months of fighting in Ukraine. A diplomatic source of Reuters news agency said early on Thursday that the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France would sign a document...
Violence hits eastern Ukraine ahead of talks
More than 20 people have been reported killed in separate attacks in eastern Ukraine, as leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany, and France prepare for peace talks in Minsk, Belarus. Shelling rocked a bus station in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk as fighting continued to rage in the country’s east in advance of Wednesday’s talks. Rebel...
Ukraine Crisis: Obama Warns Vladimir Putin
US President, Barack Obama has warned the Russia President, Vladimir Putin, that the cost of Russia will rise if it continues its “aggressive actions” in Ukraine. Mr Obama in a telephone statement, urged Vladimir Putin to seize the opportunity to find a peaceful solution to the war that has raged since April last year. Mr Putin is to meet with...
Civilians killed in East Ukraine rocket attack
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said that Russian-backed fighters have launched an artillery strike on the town of Kramatorsk, killing at least seven civilians.Poroshenko said the first round of rocket fire hit the headquarters of the Ukrainian command in eastern Ukraine and the second landed in a residential area. The...
Ukraine conflict: US ‘may supply arms to Ukraine’
President Barack Obama says the US is studying the option of supplying lethal defensive arms to Ukraine if diplomacy fails to end the crisis in the east. Russia had violated “every commitment” made in the failing Minsk agreement, he added, after talks with the German chancellor on a new peace deal. Mr Obama has come … …read more...
US may supply arms to Ukraine
President Barack Obama says the US is studying the option of supplying lethal defensive arms to Ukraine if diplomacy fails to end the crisis in the east.Obama said Russia had violated “every commitment” made in the failing Minsk agreement, after talks with the German chancellor on a new peace deal.He has come under pressure from...
Merkel warns against military answer to Ukraine crisis
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that it is uncertain whether a flurry of diplomacy aimed at resolving the crisis in Ukraine will succeed, as fighting resumed in eastern Ukraine after a brief and fractious truce ended. After returning from talks in Moscow with French President Francois Hollande and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Merkel...
Leaders to put peace plan to Ukraine
The leaders of Russia, France and Germany have agreed in Moscow to work on a peace plan they will put to Ukraine’s president on Sunday. Russian President Vladimir Putin, France’s Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel talked for more than four hours on Friday. All three parties described the meeting as...
Amid ongoing hostilities, UN warns of ‘life-threatening’ conditions for Ukraine’s civilians
15 December 2014 – As the conflict in eastern Ukraine heads into its tenth month, continued fighting and bitter cold temperatures are placing more than five million people at risk, the top United Nations human rights official warned today as he described conditions for those still living in conflict-affected areas as becoming “increasingly dire.”...
