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Dozens dead in Ukraine mine blast
At least 33 miners have died following an explosion at a coal mine in the rebel-held city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. The blast took place at Zasyadko mine, near the city’s war-wrecked airport early on Wednesday. According to Kiev-backed officials of Donetsk who have relocated to Mariupol since the city fell into rebel hands, some 230...
US Official: New Sanctions Against Russia Under Consideration
A top U.S. official says Washington is considering imposing new sanctions against Russia if a Ukraine cease-fire deal reached last month in Minsk continues to be violated, and has sent a team to Europe to coordinate the measures with allied governments. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland told the House...
Budget, Reform Plans Put Ukraine in Line for IMF Aid, G7 Says
BERLIN/WASHINGTON—The International Monetary Fund and Group of Seven leading economic powers on Wednesday praised Ukraine’s determination to reform its economy against all odds, with the G7 saying Kyiv’s new draft budget should put it on track for an IMF-led bailout. Ukraine’s parliament approved on Monday a raft of IMF-backed...
Georgian fighters defy Russia in Ukraine
Fueled by past conflict between Moscow and Tblisi, a number of Georgian fighters are in eastern Ukraine fighting pro-Russian separatists. …read more Source: Anadolu...
Concern as Ukrainian banks shut doors
A day after Ukraine’s central bank declared Ukraine’s fourth largest bank insolvent, Delta Bank customers could only knock on locked doors. ||| Kiev – A month ago, Natalia Sorokun, 40, went to a downtown Kiev branch of Delta Bank to ask if the bank was solid enough to continue keeping her safe deposit box of valuables there....
Seventeen miners killed in Donetsk
Seventeen miners died in an explosion at a coal mine in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukrainian, where a blast trapped dozens of people. ||| Moscow – Seventeen miners died in an explosion at a coal mine in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukrainian, where a blast trapped dozens of people, the news agency RIA Novosti...
32 feared dead in Ukraine mine blast – Dozens still trapped underground
DONETSK: Thirty-two miners in eastern Ukraine were missing and feared dead yesterday following an explosion at a coal mine in the rebel-held city of Donetsk. The blast took place at Zasyadko mine in the separatist hub of Donetsk, near the city’s war-wrecked airport. The chairman of Ukraine’s parliament, Volodymyr Groysman, announced...
Many dead in Ukraine mine blast
At least 17 miners have been killed and 16 others are missing following… …read more Source:...
‘Thousands’ of Russian troops in east Ukraine: US envoy
‘Russia has transferred hundreds of pieces of military equipment’ into Ukraine, Victoria Nuland… …read more Source:...
EU ready with sanctions if Ukraine ceasefire violated, Merkel says
German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Russia on Wednesday that any serious violation of the current ceasefire in east Ukraine – which she described as “fragile” – would prompt Europe to impose further sanctions on Moscow for supporting the separatists. “So far we’ve got a fragile ceasefire which needs to be...
