Section: The Gulf Today (United Arab Emirates)
Top Ukrainian rebel official killed in car bomb
KIEV: The top military official of a self-proclaimed separatist republic in eastern Ukraine was killed by car bomb on Saturday, the latest victim of a string of similar attacks, local media reported. Oleg Anashchenko, head of the military department of the Lugansk People’s Republic, died in a car explosion, the pro-Russian rebels’...
More lives lost in Ukraine as US presses Russia
AVDIIVKA: Clashes between Ukrainian forces and Moscow-backed rebels left two more dead in a flashpoint town on Friday and five others elsewhere in bloodshed that has prompted the US to condemn Russia’s “aggressive” stance. The latest reports from both sides take the death toll in fighting since Sunday in the eastern war zone to 32 — a...
Ukraine’s president appeals for help against Russia
Avdiivka: Ukraine’s president appealed for more global pressure against Russia on Thursday as Moscow-backed rebels and government forces clashed around a frontline town for a fifth day in a surge of fighting that has claimed a reported 21 lives. The sworn foes have been exchanging mortar and rocket fire around the flashpoint eastern town of...
Ukraine fighting claims more lives
AVDIIVKA: Fighting between government troops and Russia-backed separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine escalated on Tuesday, killing at least eight people overnight, injuring dozens and briefly trapping more than 200 coalminers underground, the warring sides reported. The European Union (EU) said on Tuesday that an upsurge in fighting between...
Ukraine fighting claims six more lives, toll hits 11
Ukraine: A surge in clashes between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed rebels despite a supposed truce left at least six people dead on Monday in Ukraine’s war-scarred east. The overall death toll for the past two days rose to 11 after the bloodiest outburst of violence since Ukraine and its foes agreed an “indefinite” ceasefire in...
3 Ukrainian soldiers killed in separatist offensive
KIEV: Three Ukrainian servicemen were killed when pro-Russian rebels attacked government positions in Avdiyivka on Sunday, cutting off power supplies to the eastern frontline town, Ukrainian officials said. The two-year-old Minsk peace agreement has failed to stop fighting in eastern Ukraine with each side accusing the other of violating the...
Curbs on Russia must stay, says Ukraine president
HELSINKI: Ukraine’s president said on Tuesday world powers should keep sanctions on Russia, rejecting US President Donald Trump’s proposal to consider reducing the penalties if Moscow proved a useful ally. Petro Poroshenko told reporters that sanctions remained the only way to keep Russia at the negotiating table over the crisis in...
Ukraine files ‘terrorism’ case against Russia
The Hague: Ukraine has urged the UN’s top court to order Russia to pay damages for attacks on civilians during its bloody conflict with separatist pro-Russia rebels, accusing Moscow of “sponsoring terrorism,” officials said on Tuesday. In its filing, Kiev accused Moscow of “intervening militarily in Ukraine, financing acts of terrorism, and...
MH17 victims’ kin likely to push for renewed search
THE HAGUE: Families of the MH17 plane disaster victims may push for a renewed search of the crash site in eastern Ukraine after the recent discovery of a bone fragment belonging to one of the dead. “We are considering speaking to authorities about another search for human remains,” Evert van Zijtveld, chairman of the MH17 victims’...
MH17 crash debris seized from Dutch journalist
THE HAGUE: Dutch police have taken from a journalist items, including possible human remains, which he found at the crash site of flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine, prosecutors said on Sunday. Freelancer Michel Spekkers was met by police as he returned to Schiphol airport late on Saturday after visiting the region and writing an article about his...
