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Ukraine leaders meet to ‘re-examine’ peace plan
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is set to meet security chiefs to “re-examine” an already teetering peace accord with pro-Russia separatists after they defiantly staged elections banned by Kiev. …read more Source:...
Ukraine leaders meet over peace plan
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was to meet security chiefs Tuesday to “re-examine” an already teetering peace accord with pro-Russian separatists after they defiantly staged elections banned by Kiev. …read more Source:...
Ukraine leaders meet to ‘re-examine’ peace plan
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was to meet security chiefs on Tuesday (04/11/2014) to “re-examine” an already teetering peace accord with pro-Russian separatists after they defiantly staged elections banned by Kiev. The elections of leaders in two unrecognised statelets in eastern Ukraine were backed by Russia but condemned vociferously by...
Ukraine leaders meet to ‘re-examine’ peace plan
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was to meet security chiefs Tuesday to “re-examine” an already teetering peace accord with pro-Russian separatists after they defiantly staged elections banned by Kiev. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Ukraine’s crisis deepens after rebel vote
Ukraine leader Petro Poroshenko has summoned his security chiefs to discuss new ways of dealing with the separatist challenge in the east. ||| Kiev/Donetsk – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called an emergency meeting of his security chiefs for Tuesday to discuss new ways of dealing with the separatist challenge in the east after rebel...
Russia blocks UN over Ukraine rebel vote
Russia has opposed a UN Security Council move to criticize rebel elections held in eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian ambassador said. ||| United Nations – Russia has opposed a UN Security Council move to criticize rebel elections held in eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian ambassador said Monday.A statement from the 15-member council was discussed...
Russian flight patterns provocative: NATO
NATO’s top military commander said recent incursions into European airspace by Russian fighters and long-range bombers included larger, more complex formations of aircraft flying more “provocative” routes than usual. ||| Washington – NATO’s top military commander said on Monday that recent incursions into European airspace by...
Ukraine has options left – all bad
Ukraine’s government still has options after separatist elections showed its helplessness against a Russian-backed rebellion, their problem is they’re all bad. …read more Source:...
Moscow calls on Kiev to halt military offensive against rebels
Russia on Monday called on Ukraine to halt its military offensive against pro-Moscow rebels in the east, saying the insurgent leaders had enough “authority” to hold talks with Kiev. Deputy foreign minister Grigory Karasin made the appeal after Moscow recognised separatist elections in two eastern Ukraine regions dismissed as illegal by Kiev and...
Pro-Russian separatist Zakharchenko wins Ukraine rebel vote
Pro-Russian separatist Alexander Zakharchenko has easily won an election for leadership of a breakaway republic in eastern Ukraine, the vote’s organisers said on Monday (03/11/2014). Sunday’s vote, the climax of a six-month separatist rebellion in Ukraine’s industrialised east, took place in defiance of Kiev’s pro-Western...
