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News24.com | Russia blames Ukraine for fresh fighting
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has blamed a fresh outbreak of fighting in east Ukraine on “provocations” by the Ukrainian armed forces. …read more Source:...
News24.com | More than 6 400 killed amid ‘tremendous hardship’ in Ukraine says UN
The United Nations says that more than 6 400 people had been killed in conflict-wracked Ukraine, and despite a slowdown in fighting, millions more are suffering from abuses and hardship. …read more Source:...
NATO flexes muscles in Baltics, Poland
US-led NATO drills began in the Baltic states and Poland, a move intended to reassure Russia’s nervous neighbours amid tensions over Ukraine. …read more Source: The Sunday...
More than 6,400 killed amid ‘tremendous hardship’ in Ukraine, says UN
The United Nations said Monday that more than 6,400 people had been killed in conflict-wracked Ukraine, and despite a slowdown in fighting, millions more are suffering from abuses and hardship. …read more Source: The Sunday...
IMF sees signs of stability in Ukraine
IMF mission chief Nikolay Gueorguiev has delivered an upbeat assessment of Ukraine’s reform progress. ||| Kiev – The head of an International Monetary Fund team visiting Ukraine gave a positive assessment of progress by Kiev on reform on Sunday and said there would be further discussion on loans that the near-bankrupt country badly...
Ukraine names Georgia’s Saakashvili as governor of Black Sea hotspot
Ukraine’s Petro Poroshenko has appointed former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to be governor of Ukraine’s southern Odessa region, in a …read more Source: The New...
News24.com | Putin makes troop deaths a state secret
Russian President Vladimir Putin has banned revealing information about troop deaths during peacetime, as the Kremlin continues to rebuff accusations its soldiers are fighting in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Putin hiding Ukraine troop deaths?
Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a ban on information about troop deaths in “special operations”. …read more Source:...
G7 talks begin in Germany
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and his counterparts from Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Japan and the US have launched their three-day summit. ||| Dresden – Finance ministers and central bank governors of the Group of Seven wealthiest nations gathered in Dresden on Thursday to discuss the global economy and tax evasion, but the...
News24.com | Russia masses heavy firepower on border with Ukraine
Russia’s army is massing troops and hundreds of pieces of weaponry, including mobile rocket launchers, tanks and artillery at a makeshift base near the border with Ukraine, a report says. …read more Source:...
