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    Ukraine needs military support but not NATO troops: ambassador
    Aug31

    Ukraine needs military support but not NATO troops: ambassador

    Sunday, August 31 , 2014 - 9:57 (EEST) Section: News24 (South Africa)

    Ukraine requires military assistance from Nato but does not expect it to send troops to fight pro-Russian separatists, the Ukrainian ambassador to the alliance says. …read more Source:...

    UN to hold emergency meeting on Ukraine
    Aug31

    UN to hold emergency meeting on Ukraine

    Sunday, August 31 , 2014 - 9:28 (EEST) Section: News24 (South Africa)

    The UN Security Council is to hold an emergency meeting on the Ukraine crisis following reports that Russia had sent hundreds of troops to shore up separatists in east Ukraine. …read more Source:...

    Poland’s Tusk, Italy’s Mogherini get EU top jobs
    Aug31

    Poland’s Tusk, Italy’s Mogherini get EU top jobs

    Sunday, August 31 , 2014 - 9:01 (EEST) Section: News24 (South Africa)

    European leaders have named Polish Premier Donald Tusk the next EU president and Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini to head its diplomatic service as the bloc faces a series of challenges. …read more Source:...

    Russia ‘practically at war with Europe’
    Aug31

    Russia ‘practically at war with Europe’

    Sunday, August 31 , 2014 - 2:37 (EEST) Section: News24 (South Africa)

    Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite has warned Russia is practically at war with Europe and has called for tougher sanctions against Moscow. …read more Source:...

    Death toll in Ukraine fighting hits 2 593
    Aug29

    Death toll in Ukraine fighting hits 2 593

    Friday, August 29 , 2014 - 17:58 (EEST) Section: News24 (South Africa)

    A total of 2 593 people, including civilians as well as Ukrainian and separatist combatants, have been killed in fighting in eastern Ukraine since it erupted in mid-April. …read more Source:...

    Activists: Over 100 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine
    Aug29

    Activists: Over 100 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine

    Friday, August 29 , 2014 - 11:18 (EEST) Section: News24 (South Africa)

    More than 100 Russian soldiers have been killed in eastern Ukraine in a battle helping pro-Russian separatists fight Ukrainian troops, the Russian presidential human rights council says. …read more Source:...

    Kiev forces clash with ‘reconnaissance’ group
    Aug28

    Kiev forces clash with ‘reconnaissance’ group

    Thursday, August 28 , 2014 - 22:07 (EEST) Section: News24 (South Africa)

    Ukraine says its forces have clashed with a reconnaissance group that had entered its territory from the Russian-controlled Crimean peninsula. …read more Source:...

    Armoured column seen in south Russia near Ukraine
    Aug28

    Armoured column seen in south Russia near Ukraine

    Thursday, August 28 , 2014 - 19:11 (EEST) Section: News24 (South Africa)

    A Reuters reporter saw a column of armoured vehicles and dust-covered troops, one of them with an injured face, driving through the Russian steppe just across the border with Ukraine. …read more Source:...

    Hollande: Russian troops in Ukraine unacceptable
    Aug28

    Hollande: Russian troops in Ukraine unacceptable

    Thursday, August 28 , 2014 - 17:57 (EEST) Section: News24 (South Africa)

    President Francois Hollande has described the possible presence of Russian troops in eastern Ukraine as ‘intolerable and unacceptable’ and called on Moscow to ‘respect the sovereignty of Ukraine’. …read more Source:...

    Ukraine: Russia invades with 2 tank attacks
    Aug28

    Ukraine: Russia invades with 2 tank attacks

    Thursday, August 28 , 2014 - 17:57 (EEST) Section: News24 (South Africa)

    Ukraine says two columns of Russian tanks with support military vehicles have fired on a border post and entered a key Ukraine town. …read more Source:...