Section: News24 (South Africa)
News24.com | Ukraine offers ceasefire to Russia
Ukraine has offered an immediate ceasefire to Russia, after Moscow claimed that Kiev rejected a fresh peace initiative by Russian President Vladimir Putin. …read more Source:...
News24.com | UN chief alarmed by flare-up in Ukraine fighting
The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has voiced alarm over fierce fighting around the Donetsk airport in eastern Ukraine and called for an immediate end to the violence. …read more Source:...
News24.com | Russia: Poroshenko rejected peace proposal
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko has rejected a peace plan proposed to him last week by his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, Putin’s spokesperson says. …read more Source:...
News24.com | Fighting rages anew at Ukraine airport
Fighting has raged on at the main airport of Ukraine’s city of Donetsk as separatists resumed attempts to break the tenuous grip of government forces on the complex. …read more Source:...
News24.com | Fierce battle for airport breaks out in Ukraine
Heavy artillery and shelling has rocked Ukraine’s east as the army and pro-Russian rebels waged a fierce battle for a key airport, threatening all-out conflict. …read more Source:...
News24.com | UN Security Council condemns Ukraine bus attack
The UN Security Council has strongly condemned a rocket attack on a bus in east Ukraine that left 11 civilians dead. …read more Source:...
News24.com | Killer bus attack dooms Ukraine’s shaky truce
An attack on a passenger bus in eastern Ukraine which killed 11 people may be the final blow to hopes of a cease-fire. …read more Source:...
News24.com | Ceasefire holds key to talks on Ukraine crisis – Russia
Talks on the Ukraine crisis can advance only when both sides observe a ceasefire in the country’s east to open the way for the full implementation of a four-month-old peace deal, Russia says. …read more Source:...
News24.com | Diplomats meet to save Ukraine peace summit
Foreign ministers from France, Germany, Ukraine and Russia were meeting in Berlin to try and resolve tensions threatening to scupper a planned summit on ending the Ukrainian conflict. …read more Source:...
News24.com | Nato sees slight improvement in eastern Ukraine
Fighting between Kiev’s forces and pro-Russian rebels has eased in eastern Ukraine, Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said, although he voiced concern about the risks to local people. …read more Source:...
