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At least 10 killed in rocket attack on Ukraine’s Mariupol
DONETSK, Ukraine — At least 10 people died on Saturday when heavy rockets fell on residential districts of Ukraine’s strategic government-held port of Mariupol in the wake of Russian-backed rebels’ rejection of peace talks. The police chief of the war-torn region of Donetsk said the long-range Grad rockets hit a market in...
Deadly clashes rock Ukraine ahead of peace talks
DONETSK, Ukraine — Heavy fighting raged between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels in the country’s war-torn east Wednesday, killing at least five more civilians ahead of high-stakes peace talks in Berlin. Explosions shook the battered city of Donetsk after days of fighting left an al …read more...
Kiev and rebels swap hundreds of captives in peace push
Ukrainian prisoners stand as a militant of the self-proclaimed "People’s Republic of Donetsk" stands guard during a prisoner exchange with Ukraine in the eastern Ukrainian city of Yasinovataya, near Donetsk, on Friday. — AFP KOSTYANTYNIVKA , Ukraine — Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels were on Saturday set t...
Ukraine, rebels try to revive talks
KIEV — Ukrainian and pro-Russian rebel leaders tried on Friday to revive peace talks that stalled after just one round due to stark difference over how to end the eight-month separatist war. A tense meeting mediated by European and Russian envoys in the Belarussian capital Minsk on Wednesday was due to have been followed by a final...
Ukraine truce hangs in balance
KIEV — The latest push for peace in Ukraine appeared moribund on Thursday after initial talks failed to agree when the warring sides should meet again to try ending their eight-month conflict. Negotiations mediated by European and Russian envoys in the Belarussian capital Minsk broke up after more than five hours on Wednesday...
Putin holds late-night talks on Ukraine with EU leaders
MOSCOW — Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and his French, German and Ukrainian counterparts agreed in a phonecall early Wednesday that they wanted talks between Kiev, Moscow and rebels controlling parts of eastern Ukraine to resume as soon as possible. The telephone conversation came after the …read more...
Poroshenko: Ukraine ceasefire is ‘real’
SYDNEY — President Petro Poroshenko on Friday said a “real” ceasefire was in place in Ukraine after the first 24 hours in seven months without a military casualty, although he admitted the truce was fragile. “I have positive news. Today is the first 24 hours for seven months… when we have a real...
Dutch identify all foreign MH17 victims
THE HAGUE — Dutch authorities have identified two more victims of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash in Ukraine, with just four of the 298 dead still unidentified, all of them Dutch, officials said Thursday. “Two victims of flight MH17 have been identified this week,” the Dutch justice ministry ministry said...
Truce holding in east Ukraine
KIEV — A few artillery shells were still falling in eastern Ukraine on Thursday but a ceasefire was largely holding as it entered its third day. “In 24 hours, the terrorists have violated the peace arrangements 22 times,” said a Ukraine military spokesman, adding there had been 14 violations the day before. In the...
Ukraine, pro-Russian rebels agree new truce
Unmarked 122-mm self-propelled howitzers are seen on the road from Luhansk to Donetsk in the territory controlled by the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, eastern Ukraine, on Monday. — Reuters DONETSK, Ukraine — Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels “agreed in principle&rd …read more...
