Section: News24 (South Africa)
Dozens die in Ukraine in street battles
Heavy shelling has hit residential neighbourhoods in Ukraine’s rebel stronghold of Donetsk and government forces have fought street battles in other towns as they sought to crush a four-month-old separatist rebellion. …read more Source:...
Ukraine flag unfurled on top of Moscow skyscraper
A Ukrainian flag has been unfurled on the top of a Moscow skyscraper near the Kremlin officials say. …read more Source:...
Ukraine says battles raging in Lugansk
Ukraine says fighting has erupted in the heart of major rebel stronghold Lugansk, as the bodies of 17 civilians fleeing the city were recovered from wreckage of their destroyed convoy. …read more Source:...
Donetsk queues as water shutt off
Donetsk residents are buying water in the rebel-held east Ukrainian city where supplies have been abruptly cut off by shelling damage. …read more Source:...
Ukraine July industrial output plummets
Ukrainian industrial production has fallen in July at its steepest rate since the 2008-2009 global financial crisis amid months of conflict. …read more Source:...
Russia may ban car imports if sanctions persist
Russia may tighten retaliatory sanctions against Western nations to include a ban on imports of cars, among other things, if the US and the EU impose additional sanctions on Moscow. …read more Source:...
Stop sending arms to Ukraine, Merkel urges Putin
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to “stop the flow of military equipment, military advisers and armed personnel crossing the border with Ukraine”. …read more Source:...
Kiev forces, Russian troops clash inside Ukraine
Ukraine said its forces have attacked and partly destroyed a Russian armoured column that entered Ukrainian territory overnight. …read more Source:...
Nato chief confirms Russian ‘incursion’ into Ukraine
Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen has confirmed an incursion by Russian armoured vehicles into Ukraine, saying it showed Moscow’s efforts to ‘destabilise’ Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Russian military vehicles mass near Ukraine
Dozens of heavy Russian military vehicles have massed near the border with Ukraine, while Ukrainian border guards crossed the frontier to inspect a huge Russian aid convoy. …read more Source:...
