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Ukraine clashes claim life of one civilian
KIEV: Fighting close to the strategic eastern Ukraine port of Mariupol, the last major city in the conflict zone controlled by Kiev, claimed one civilian life overnight, police loyal to the government said on Friday. “A male inhabitant of Shyrokyne village died after suffering injuries in shelling” by pro-Russian separatists, Viktoriya Guts, a...
4 dead in Ukraine as passenger bus hits landmine
KIEV: Four people were killed and 20 injured when a passenger bus hit a landmine near a government-controlled town in eastern Ukraine, local officials said on Thursday. The bus had taken a side road in order to avoid a government checkpoint near the town of Artemivsk, some 50 kilometres north of the separatist stronghold of Donetsk, late on...
Son of Ukraine’s ousted leader drowns, says official
KIEV: A son of ousted Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich has drowned after a mini-van he was driving plunged through ice on a Siberian lake, an aide to Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said. Authorities in Russia, where Yanukovich has lived with most of his family since protests against his pro-Moscow policies forced him from office in...
Nato backs armed support for Ukraine
BRUSSELS: The West should consider using all its tools to help Ukraine, including sending defensive weapons, Natio’s top military commander said on Sunday. Officials in Washington have been discussing whether to send weapons to Ukraine’s military to help them fight pro-Russian separatists who Nato says are armed and supported by...
3 killed in Ukraine clashes, truce disturbed
DONETSK: Two Ukrainian soldiers and one civilian were killed in the country’s rebel-held east as clashes rattled an official truce aimed at ending nearly a year of fighting, Kiev and separatists said on Saturday. “Over the last 24 hour we have lost two soldiers and seven were injured,” Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko told...
3 rebels die as clashes intensify near Ukraine port
KIEV: Three pro-Russian separatists have been killed in fresh clashes close to the strategic Ukrainian-held port of Mariupol despite a shaky ceasefire aimed at ending nearly a year of fighting, rebels said on Friday. “Three fighters were killed and six wounded” in the village of Shyrokyne, the official rebel news agency said on its website. The...
Ukraine warns EU to avoid sanctions split
KIEV: Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk warned European Union (EU) leaders on Thursday to keep the pressure on Russia and not allow President Vladimir Putin to exploit their differences over sanctions. “If Putin splits the unity among EU member states and among the leaders of the EU, this will be the biggest success story for Putin and a...
Three soldiers killed in eastern Ukraine
KIEV: Three soldiers were killed and five injured in eastern Ukraine, an army spokesman said on Tuesday, further undermining a month-old ceasefire between government forces and pro-Russian separatists. Some of the casualties were caused by fire from the rebels, the others occurring when a military vehicle drove over a landmine, spokesman Andriy...
One dead in Ukraine clashes despite de-escalation
KIEV: A pro-government militia member has been killed and a soldier injured in clashes between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists, despite a ceasefire, the militia and the army announced on Sunday. The Dnipro-1 militia said one of its fighters had been killed near Pisky village, close to the bombed-out airport of the eastern rebel hub...
Putin says Russia saved life of Yanukovich
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking in a pre-recorded film about Russia’s seizure of Crimea, said the life of Ukrainian former president Viktor Yanukovich was in danger as a result of the “revolution” that set out to seize power in Kiev. “For us it became clear and we received information that there were plans not only for...
