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Fighting rages near airport as Russia and Ukraine bicker
Pro-Russian separatists renewed attacks on Ukrainian forces at an airport complex in the east on Monday … …read more Source: Gulf...
Ukraine leader vows to retake separatist-held east
Separatist stronghold, Donetsk, was shaken by intense outgoing and incoming artillery fire as a bitter battle raged for control over the city’s airport. …read more Source: Khaleej...
Troops retake most of Donetsk airport from rebels
KIEV: Ukrainian troops recaptured almost all the territory of Donetsk airport in eastern Ukraine they had lost to separatists in recent weeks, even as thousands gathered in Kiev for a state-sponsored peace march on Sunday. The offensive brought fighting close to the big industrial city of Donetsk itself, centre of a pro-Russian rebellion, while...
Fighting in Ukraine kills three soldiers
KIEV: Fighting in eastern Ukraine has killed three soldiers, officials said on Saturday, as an upsurge in clashes in recent days between the army and pro-Russian rebels centred around control of a battered airport. Further battles shook the area around the Donetsk airport on Saturday, with Ukraine’s military saying it was defending its...
PERRYSCOPE – Multipolar world order in a shrinking world
By Perry Diaz After the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1991, there was only one superpower left in a unipolar world order: The United States of America. For the next two decades, America was the world’s hegemon. It kept peace in an ever-increasing turbulent world. Thus began the era of Pax Americana (American...
New wave of fighting kills 11 in east Ukraine
KIEV: Fierce fighting in east Ukraine has killed at least 11 people over the past 24 hours, officials said on Friday, as a new round of violence threatened all-out conflict between government forces and pro-Russian rebels. A military spokesman reported six soldiers killed and 18 others wounded over the past day, adding that a civilian was left...
Ukraine’s effort to cut reliance on Russian gas sees explorers exit
Ukraine’s ambition to wean itself off gas supplies from a hostile Russia has never seemed so distant. …read more Source: Gulf...
Parliament calls Russia potential threat to EU
BRUSSELS: The European Union (EU) parliament on Thursday condemned Russia as a “potential threat to the European Union itself” even as the EU foreign policy chief sought to resume dialogue with Moscow to help end the conflict in Ukraine. The legislature backed a resolution with a show of hands that called for a continuation of the sanctions...
Ukrainians describe chance survival from rocket attack
KIEV: It was a simple gesture of politeness that saved her: a young man offered Olga Kukunyuk a seat on a bus transporting Ukrainians in search of pension payments in the war-torn east, but she remained standing. “And today he is dead,” Kukunyuk, 31, said at a hospital in Volnovakha, where she was being treated for wounds to her arm and leg,...
10 Ukraine civilians killed when rocket hit bus
DONETSK: A bus driving near an army checkpoint in eastern Ukraine was hit by a rebel shell on Tuesday, killing at least 10 civilians and wounding a further 13, local officials said. The Donetsk regional administration, which answers to the central government in Kiev, said in a statement that the rebels shelled the checkpoint near the town of...
