Section: News24 (South Africa)
Ukraine needs military support but not NATO troops: ambassador
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
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
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’
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
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
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
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
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
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
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:...
