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Fighting takes toll on healthcare in eastern Ukraine
Conflict has cut off access to medical care in rebel-held territory and sent the price of medicine soaring. …read more Source: AL...
Fighting takes toll on healthcare in eastern Ukraine
The conflict in eastern Ukraine is having a dramatic effect on people with serious illnesses. Fighting between pro-Russian rebels and the …read more Source:...
Latest from Russia: The murder and the Ukraine Crisis
The current scene in Russia is quite chaotic and hectic. On the one hand, Moscow is dealing with the Ukraine crisis. On the other hand, it is shaken with the recent assassination of Boris Nemtsov, one of Russia’s prominent opposition leaders. …read more Source: Hurriyet Daily...
Tears and accusations as Ukraine buries mine blast victims
Mourners blame management for death of 33 miners in notoriously unsafe coal mine …read more Source:...
In Ukraine’s Nikishino, No House Untouched by Fighting
Patrick Wells Published March 06, 2015 In the village of Nikishino, in eastern Ukraine, recent fighting has brought utter devastation. Ninety percent of the houses are damaged or destroyed after government forces tried and failed to stop rebels advancing on the strategically important town of Debaltseve nearby. Patrick Wells reports for VOA...
Ukraine: Death toll rises to 34 in Donetsk mine tragedy
Funerals for the killed miners are being carried out in the separatist-controlled area. …read more Source: Anadolu...
Nemtsov’s girlfriend threatened
KIEV: The Ukrainian girlfriend of murdered Russian opposition activist Boris Nemtsov, who was by his side when he was shot dead, has complained to police of receiving death threats, Ukrainian prosecutors said on Friday. “Ganna Duritska… filed a statement about the threat to her life from unidentified people during her time in her...
Ukraine pulls rocket launchers back from frontline
KIEV: Kiev said on Friday it had withdrawn all its Uragan multiple rocket launchers from the main conflict zone in eastern Ukraine, in compliance with a ceasefire agreement with pro-Russian rebels. Two of the imposing Uragan (Hurricane) rocket launchers — equipped with 16 launch tubes for 220mm rockets — were being readied for loading on to a...
Germany: OSCE monitors should have full freedom
Berlin says Ukraine and separatists should enable full freedom of movement for OSCE to monitor implementation of ceasefire in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Anadolu...
EU Drops Sanctions on Yanukovich’s Security Chief
BRUSSELS—The European Union has dropped sanctions imposed last year on the head of ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich’s security service, according to a legal notice published on Friday. Oleksandr Yakimenko, who ran Ukraine’s SBU … …read more Source:...
