Section: Africa&ME
Warring Sides in E. Ukraine Each Claim Control of Donetsk Airport
Intense fighting between government and pro-Russian separatist forces continued Monday in eastern Ukraine, as Ukraine’s military claimed hundreds of Russian troops crossed the border to help the rebels. The general staff of Ukraine’s armed forces claimed they had established control over the disputed Donetsk airport after driving out...
Pro-Russian Rebels, Ukraine Battle for Donetsk Airport
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko (center), his wife Marina and Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk (left) light candles during a peace march in Kiev, Jan. 18, 2015, for the victims on a passenger bus which came under fire near the town of Volnovakha in eastern Ukraine, Jan. 18, 2015. A Ukrainian man walks through the debris after the...
Fighting rages near airport as Russia and Ukraine bicker
Pro-Russian separatists renewed attacks on Ukrainian forces at an airport complex in the east on Monday … …read more Source: Gulf...
Ukraine hospital hit amid fighting in east
Doctor and five patients wounded as Kiev claims Russia has sent 700 troops across border to back pro-Russian rebels. …read more Source: AL...
Fighting rages near airport as Russia and Ukraine bicker
By Richard Balmforth Pro-Russian separatists renewed attacks on Ukrainian forces at an airport complex in the east on Monday after Kiev launched a mass operation to reclaim lost ground there that Russia called a “strategic mistake”. Ukrainian officials said three soldiers had been killed and 66 wounded over the past 24 hours, during which they...
Moscow warns Kiev over use of force in east Ukraine
Kiev was trying to solve the crisis in east Ukraine through military force which was a “strategic mistake” …read more Source: World...
Ukrainian troops recapture airport from rebels
Military spokesman says troops have retaken almost all territory of Donetsk airport in eastern Ukraine they had lost to separatists in recent weeks …read more Source: Business...
News24.com | Ukraine offers ceasefire to Russia
Ukraine has offered an immediate ceasefire to Russia, after Moscow claimed that Kiev rejected a fresh peace initiative by Russian President Vladimir Putin. …read more Source:...
Ukraine offers ceasefire
Ukraine offered an immediate ceasefire to Russia, after Moscow claimed that Kiev rejected a fresh peace initiative by Vladimir Putin. ||| Moscow/ Berlin – Ukraine on Monday offered an immediate ceasefire to Russia, after Moscow claimed that Kiev rejected a fresh peace initiative by Russian President Vladimir Putin.“We are ready to work with...
Time Not Right to Ease Russia Sanctions, EU says
BRUSSELS—European Union foreign ministers said on Monday there were no grounds to lift economic sanctions against Russia despite conciliatory proposals from the EU’s foreign policy chief as violence intensified in eastern Ukraine. Federica Mogherini had suggested in a confidential memo… …read more Source:...
