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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:...
Merkel snubs Putin WWII ceremony invite
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will not attend an official ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII, an officials said. ||| Berlin – German Chancellor Angela Merkel will not attend an official ceremony in Moscow on May 9 to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two due to tensions of the Ukraine crisis,...
NATO chief says Russia still equipping Ukraine rebels
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday that Russia was continuing to arm and train rebel forces in eastern Ukraine and he called on …read more Source: The New...
Ukraine PM hopes for gas talks with EU, Russia on March 20
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said on Wednesday he hoped talks on natural gas supplies would take place with European partners and Russia …read more Source: The New...
Obama said to resist growing pressure to send arms to Ukraine
As U.S. intelligence agencies have detected new Russian tanks and artillery crossing the border into Ukraine in recent days, President Barack Obama has come under increasing pressure from both parties and more officials inside his own government to send arms to the country. But he remains unconvinced that they would help. …read more Source:...
Ukrainian soldier killed in clashes despite weapons pullback
One Ukrainian soldier has been killed and four injured in the country’s east, where government forces and pro-Russian separatists continue to trade fire despite a ceasefire. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Russia’s Lavrov says EU’s Tusk upping tension over Ukraine
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused European Council President Donald Tusk and Brussels bureaucrats on Tuesday of stirring up tensions betw …read more Source: The New...
Ukraine’s military says eastern rebels using truce to amass arms
Ukraine’s military said on Tuesday pro-Russian rebels were amassing heavy weapons in depots around separatist-held Donetsk city despite a ceasefire …read more Source: The New...
UK minister warns of Russia threat
Russian actions in Ukraine are undermining the security of nations in Eastern Europe, British foreign minister Philip Hammond is to warn in a speech on Tuesday. …read more Source:...
Putin says plan to take Crimea hatched before referendum
Latest account at odds with official version that Russian annexation decision came after March 2014 plebiscite when Crimean residents voted to become part of the Russian Federation …read more Source: Business...
