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    First MH17 crash report ‘in weeks’
    Aug11

    First MH17 crash report ‘in weeks’

    Monday, August 11 , 2014 - 20:55 (EET) Section: News24 (South Africa)

    Dutch air crash investigators say they expect to release an initial report into what brought down flight MH17 over Ukraine with the loss of 298 lives “in a few weeks”. …read more Source:...

    Ukraine: Russia has massed 45 000 troops on border
    Aug11

    Ukraine: Russia has massed 45 000 troops on border

    Monday, August 11 , 2014 - 20:55 (EET) Section: News24 (South Africa)

    Russia has massed 45 000 troops on its border with Ukraine backed by an array of heavy equipment, Ukrainian military spokesperson Andriy Lysenko says. …read more Source:...

    Nato: High probability of Russian intervention
    Aug11

    Nato: High probability of Russian intervention

    Monday, August 11 , 2014 - 19:10 (EET) Section: News24 (South Africa)

    Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said he saw a “high probability” that Russia could intervene militarily in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...

    Inmates flee as shells hit east Ukraine jail
    Aug11

    Inmates flee as shells hit east Ukraine jail

    Monday, August 11 , 2014 - 18:03 (EET) Section: News24 (South Africa)

    Over 100 inmates broke out of jail when shells rained down on a high-security prison in the besieged rebel stronghold of Donetsk in east Ukraine, killing one. …read more Source:...

    Ukraine suggests revision for gas deals
    Aug11

    Ukraine suggests revision for gas deals

    Monday, August 11 , 2014 - 17:08 (EET) Section: News24 (South Africa)

    European companies would have to agree major contract revisions when purchasing Russian gas if the country’s parliament imposes sanctions on Russian gas. …read more Source:...

    Ukraine rebel leader: We are open to a cease-fire
    Aug10

    Ukraine rebel leader: We are open to a cease-fire

    Sunday, August 10 , 2014 - 2:50 (EET) Section: News24 (South Africa)

    Donetsk rebel leader says city is surrounded by Ukrainian forces, rebels open to a cease-fire. …read more Source:...

    Fear in east Ukraine’s Donetsk as shells hit homes
    Aug09

    Fear in east Ukraine’s Donetsk as shells hit homes

    Saturday, August 9 , 2014 - 1:14 (EET) Section: News24 (South Africa)

    Tatyana had just stepped out of the small kitchen in her Donetsk flat when an explosion blasted through the windows, shattering all the glass. …read more Source:...

    Dutch experts identify 23 MH17 victims
    Aug08

    Dutch experts identify 23 MH17 victims

    Friday, August 8 , 2014 - 17:38 (EET) Section: News24 (South Africa)

    The Dutch forensics team has identified the bodies of 23 Ukraine plane disaster victims so far. …read more Source:...

    Meet Telegraph the ‘zonkey’ born at a Crimean zoo
    Aug08

    Meet Telegraph the ‘zonkey’ born at a Crimean zoo

    Friday, August 8 , 2014 - 16:14 (EET) Section: News24 (South Africa)

    A zoo in the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea has welcomed its latest arrival, a ‘zebroid’, or ‘zonkey’, which was born after a lonesome zebra got intimate with a donkey. …read more Source:...

    Russian economy strained by sanctions: Obama
    Aug07

    Russian economy strained by sanctions: Obama

    Thursday, August 7 , 2014 - 12:17 (EET) Section: News24 (South Africa)

    US president Obama says that US sanctions levied against Russia over its actions in Ukraine are working but that the US will face a different set of questions about how to respond if Moscow invaded Ukraine. …read more Source:...