Section: News24 (South Africa)
News24.com | Nato: Ukraine cease-fire monitors must get full access
Nato’s secretary general has insisted international observers be given the freedom of movement and the protection that need to nominate the cease-fire in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
News24.com | Ukraine declares heavy weapons pullback from front line
Ukrainian military officials say government forces are withdrawing heavy rocket launchers from the front line with Russian-backed separatists in accordance with last month’s ceasefire accord. …read more Source:...
News24.com | Death toll in Ukraine mine blast reaches 32
Officials in a separatist rebel-held city in east Ukraine say the death toll from an accidental explosion at a coal mine has risen to 32. …read more Source:...
News24.com | Thirty-three miners killed in Ukraine
Thirty-three miners have died in an explosion at a coal mine in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
News24.com | Dozens feared dead after mine blast in Ukraine
Dozens of miners are feared dead following a coal mine blast in rebel-held east Ukraine, a mining union spokesperson says. …read more Source:...
News24.com | West vow ‘strong’ response if major Ukraine truce violated
Western leaders have called for a “strong reaction” from the international community to any major violation of a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine as they seek to further pressure Russia over the conflict. …read more Source:...
News24.com | Ukraine FM casts doubt on Russia ceasefire
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has cast doubt on hopes that a UN-backed truce with pro-Russian rebels will stick, as he called for an expansion of international monitoring. …read more Source:...
News24.com | Death toll in eastern Ukraine passes 6 000
The UN human rights office says more than 6 000 people have died in eastern Ukraine since the start of the conflict almost a year ago. …read more Source:...
News24.com | Ukraine’s frontlines calm ahead of gas talks
Ukraine’s frontlines have been relatively calm ahead of high-level EU-mediated gas talks between Kiev and Moscow, as journalists mourn the killing by mortar fire of a Ukrainian photographer. …read more Source:...
News24.com | Moscow slams ‘abominable’ new Charlie Hebdo cartoon
The head of the Russian parliament’s foreign affairs committee Alexei Pushkov has denounced a cartoon published in the latest issue of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo on the truce in Ukraine as ‘abominable’. …read more Source:...
