Section: United Arab Emirates
Rebels strengthen as shelling rocks Donetsk
Donetsk: Artillery fire rocked east Ukraine’s rebel stronghold of Donetsk on Sunday as separatists appeared to be reinforcing their frontline and fears grew of a return to all-out fighting. The boom of shelling rumbled on mid-morning on the edge of Donetsk, where government forces regularly exchange heavy fire with insurgent fighters, but...
Intense artillery fire in Ukraine’s rebel bastion Donetsk
OSCE voices concern over troop movement …read more Source: Gulf...
Intense artillery fire in Ukraine’s rebel bastion Donetsk
Intense artillery fire broke out early Sunday in Ukraine’s separatist bastion of Donetsk, in a level of combat not seen in the region since September …read more Source: Gulf...
Last MH17 victims may never be recovered, Dutch foreign minister says
Ukraine reported more bloody fighting overnight, with three soldiers killed, as Moscow denied claims it had sent tanks across the border …read more Source: Gulf...
Russian tanks enter Ukraine: Kiev
KIEV/MOSCOW: Ukraine’s military accused Russia on Friday of sending a column of 32 tanks and truckloads of troops into the country’s east to support pro-Russian separatists fighting government forces. Thursday’s cross-border incursion, if confirmed, is a significant escalation of a conflict that has killed more than 4,000 people...
Ukraine isolates rebel territory with passport rule
KIEV: Ukraine announced passport controls around pro-Russian separatist territories on Thursday, as heavy artillery fire erupted in rebel-held Donetsk and Russia accused its neighbour of “crudely” violating the ceasefire. Ukraine’s border guards service said anyone crossing in or out of rebel areas will now have to present a passport....
Ukraine peace plan hangs by a thread
KIEV: The ceasefire in Ukraine hung by a thread on Wednesday after President Petro Poroshenko accused pro-Russian rebels of endangering the peace process and ordered troop reinforcements to eastern cities. In another sign of how far apart the two sides are drifting, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced he was cutting the rebel-held Donetsk...
Ukraine peace plan hangs by a thread
Two soldiers were killed and nine wounded in the past 24 hours …read more Source: Gulf...
Kiev cries foul as rebel heads sworn in
DONETSK: Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine staged swearing in ceremonies for their leaders on Tuesday after votes dismissed as a farce by Kiev, which says they violated terms of a peace plan to end a war that has killed more than 4,000 people. Nato’s highest ranking officer, a US general, said conditions were now in place to create...
Ukraine rebel leader sworn in after eastern vote
Constant ceasefire violations have already undermined the truce …read more Source: Gulf...
