Section: Saudi Gazette (Saudi Arabia)
Battle for key southeast coast heats up in Ukraine
MARIUPOL, Ukraine — The battle for Ukraine’s strategic coastline heated up Wednesday as a local mayor reported that pro-Russian rebel forces entered a key town in southeast Ukraine after three days of heavy shelling. Novoazovsk, a resort town of 40,000 on the Sea of Azov, lies in a strategically significant location...
Ukraine, Russia talks begin as Kiev holds ‘Russian’ soldiers
Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko (C) gestures next to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (2nd L), Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko (2nd R), EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton (R) and Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev (L), as they meet in the Belarussian capital Minsk on Tuesday. Putin and Poroshenko...
Ukraine battles armor from Russia on eve of key talks
DONETSK, Ukraine — Kiev said its forces were battling an armored column that crossed from Russia on Monday, as Moscow unveiled plans for a new aid convoy for east Ukraine, ramping up tensions on the eve of crunch talks on the conflict. After a string of setbacks, separatist fighters appeared to have launched a counter-offensive across the r...
Ukraine accuses Russia of ‘invasion’
IZVARYNE, Ukraine — Ukraine on Friday accused Moscow of invading after Russia unilaterally sent the first part of its mammoth aid convoy into east Ukraine, warning against any attacks on the trucks. Moscow called week-long delays in allowing the vehicles across the border an “outrage” as it ordered the convoy into rebel-held...
Remains of Malaysian MH17 victims to be flown home
KUALA LUMPUR — The remains of at least 15 Malaysians killed when a jetliner was shot down over Ukraine will be returned to their home country this week, the first Malaysian victims of the disaster to be flown home, the country’s defense minister said on Tuesday. All 298 people on board died when Malaysia Airlines Flight...
Ukraine says rebels killed fleeing civilians as talks fail
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov speaks during a news conference in Berlin on Monday. Russia said all issues related to it sending a humanitarian convoy to Ukraine had been resolved but said no progress has been made in talks toward a ceasefire or political solution to the fighting in the east of the country. — Reuters DONETSK, Ukrai...
Ukraine rebel forces unravel
DONETSK — Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine have suffered dramatic setbacks after top military chiefs quit and Kiev’s forces pummeled their strongholds, cutting off a key rebel-held city from the Russian border. Kiev’s advance came as the Russian “humanitarian” convoy parked up close to the frontier, with...
12 pro-government Ukraine militiamen killed
DONETSK, Ukraine — At least 12 militiamen fighting alongside government troops against pro-Russian separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine have been killed in an ambush, a spokesman for their radical nationalist movement said on Wednesday. Artem Skoropatsky said the fighters with the Right Sector volunteer battalion were shot dead while travel...
Ukraine: Russian aid can enter with Red Cross OK
MOSCOW — A convoy of more than 260 Russian trucks reportedly packed with aid rumbled toward the border with Ukraine on Tuesday, but Kiev said the goods would only be allowed in if they were inspected by the international Red Cross. The tug-of-war over humanitarian aid to Ukraine’s rebel-held eastern regions reflected dee...
Inmates flee as shells hit east Ukraine jail
DONETSK, Ukraine — Rockets slammed into a high-security prison Monday in the rebel-held city of Donetsk, igniting a riot that allowed more than 100 prisoners to flee, authorities in eastern Ukraine said. Donetsk city council spokesman Maxim Rovinsky said a direct rocket hit killed at least one inmate and left three others severely wounded....
