Section: Sunday Times (South Africa)
Kiev hopes for stalled truce talks despite separatist vow
Kiev’s pro-Western leaders hope to hold truce talks on Saturday with pro-Russian separatists despite the rebels’ vow to push their latest offensive in eastern Ukraine if the negotiations should fail. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Ukraine’s Cold War could get hot, warns Gorby
Europe yesterday prepared to draft even tougher sanctions against Russia over Ukraine as former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned of the danger of an increasingly isolated Kremlin fighting back. …read more Source: The Sunday...
US to work with allies to increase pressure on Russia
The United States signed an agreement providing war-torn Ukraine with $2 billion in loan guarantees to help it with “near-term social spending” in 2015 and said it was prepared to step up sanctions against Russia if necessary. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Berlin to launch new think tank in response to Ukraine crisis
In a recognition that Germany needs to rethink its relations with Russia as a result of the crisis in Ukraine, the foreign ministry plans to invest millions of euros in a new institute devoted to the study of post-Soviet states. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Ukraine parliament calls Russia “aggressor state”, seeks more aid, sanctions
Ukraine’s parliament on Tuesday approved a statement defining Russia as an “aggressor state”, which deputies said could pave the way for consequences under international law, and called for more international aid and stronger sanctions on Russia. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Ukraine fighting traps miners
Nearly 500 coal miners in Ukraine’s war-torn east were trapped briefly yesterday after their pit lost power when a shell hit an electricity substation. …read more Source: The Sunday...
US ‘deeply concerned’ by Ukraine attacks: Obama
US President Barack Obama expressed deep concern Sunday about ceasefire violations in Ukraine and pledged to intensify pressure on Russia, after rocket attacks on a government-held port killed 30 people. …read more Source: The Sunday...
Putin blames Kiev for fighting, civilian deaths in Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin blamed on Friday what he said were Kiev’s “criminal orders” for a surge in fighting in east Ukraine in which civilians have been killed. …read more Source: The Sunday...
More than 5,000 killed in Ukraine since April, toll may be far higher: UN
The death toll in the conflict in Ukraine that began last April now exceeds 5,000 and may be far more, the United Nations human rights office said. …read more Source: The Sunday...
At least 41 Ukraine soldiers, civilians killed in 24 hours: officials
At least 41 Ukrainian soldiers and civilians were killed in one of the heaviest 24-hour spells of fighting in the nine-month separatist war, Kiev and pro-Russian rebel officials said Thursday. …read more Source: The Sunday...
