Section: Africa&ME
News24.com | No weapon exit till Russian rebels stand down
Ukraine won’t withdraw heavy weapons along the front line in the country’s east as long as the Russia-backed separatists there continue hostilities. …read more Source:...
Ukraine refuses to withdraw heavy weapons
Kiev accused pro-Russian rebels of opening fire with rockets and artillery at villages in southeastern Ukraine on Monday, burying a week-old European-brokered ceasefire deal. The Ukrainian military said it could not pull weapons from the front as required under the tenuous truce, as long as its troops were still under attack. The Ukrainian...
Kiev says cannot withdraw heavy weapons as attacks persist
By Pavel Polityuk and Anton Zverev Kiev accused pro-Russian rebels of opening fire with rockets and artillery at villages in southeastern Ukraine on Monday, all but burying a week-old European-brokered ceasefire deal. The Ukrainian military said it could not pull weapons from the front as required under the tenuous truce, as long as its troops...
German Doctors Assess Jailed Ukraine Pilot on Hunger Strike
BERLIN—German doctors have been allowed to visit Ukrainian military pilot Nadiya Savchenko, who has been on hunger strike for more than two months in a Russian jail, a German Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Monday. Savchenko, 33, was captured by pro-Russian forces and handed over eight months ago to Russia, where she was imprisoned on charges...
Kiev says cannot withdraw heavy weapons as attacks persist
Kiev accused pro-Russian rebels of opening fire with rockets and artillery at villages in southeastern Ukraine … …read more Source: Gulf...
Savings of Ukrainian Jewish refugees from Donetsk stolen in Kiev
Donetsk’s rabbi accuses the Ukrainian Security Service of stealing the funds. …read more Source: The Jerusalem...
Poroshenko vows to regain Crimea by ‘any means’
Poroshenko said that Ukraine will regain control over this temporarily occupied territory. …read more Source: Anadolu...
Putin surveys the map as he ponders next move on Ukraine
What Russian President Vladimir Putin does next in Ukraine is key to the country’s future, as well as that of Europe and his own …read more Source: Business...
German doctors visited detained Ukrainian pilot in Russia
Savchenko, 33, was captured by pro-Russian forces and handed over eight months ago to Russia, where she was imprisoned on charges of aiding the killing of two Russian journalists in east Ukraine. …read more Source: World...
News24.com | Ukraine: Rebel attacks preventing weapons pullback
A Ukrainian military spokesperson says continuing attacks from rebels are delaying Ukrainian forces’ pullback of heavy weapons from the front line in the country’s east. …read more Source:...
