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Shelling kills 6 civilians in eastern Ukraine
DONETSK: Shelling in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk killed at least six civilians on Tuesday, as fighting intensifies between government and rebel forces. AP reporters saw the bodies of two people killed while waiting for a bus in the separatist-held city of Donetsk. Separatist authorities said another person died from an attack...
Ukraine, rebels claim to control Donetsk airport
DONETSK: After days of intense fighting, Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine claimed on Monday they had seized control of Donetsk airport once again. The Ukrainian military denied this but acknowledged that the fighting for the rubble-strewn trophy had been fierce. Three Ukrainian servicemen were killed and 66 wounded in the previous 24...
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...
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...
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...
Two Ukraine soldiers killed in fighting
KIEV: Ukraine’s military on Saturday reported the death of two soldiers in the past day of fighting with pro-Russian insurgents in the separatist east. Military spokesman Andriy Lysenko added that 20 soldiers were wounded in clashes in the mostly Russian-speaking Lugansk region. The toll brings to six the number of Ukrainian troops reported...
Eight killed in Ukraine as peace talk prospects dim
KIEV: Four Ukrainian soldiers and at least as many civilians died on Friday in an upsurge of rocket attacks that came just as prospects for international peace talks on the nine-month crisis dimmed. Local authorities in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk said another nine residents were injured in sporadic clashes that continued from dawn late into...
