Section: South China Morning Post (China)
Rocket attack kills over 20 in eastern Ukraine
Indiscriminate rocket fire slammed into a market, schools and homes yesterday in the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, killing at least 21 people, authorities said. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Death toll in Ukraine conflict tops 5,000 as peace talks rejected
The death toll in the Ukraine conflict now exceeds 5,000, the United Nations said on Friday, as a Ukrainian separatist leader said he would not push for new peace talks …read more Source: South China Morning...
At least 6 civilians killed in shelling attack in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine
At least six civilians were killed on Thursday when a shell or a mortar hit a trolleybus stop in the rebel-controlled city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Russia says it has seen no proof its troops, arms entered Ukraine
Moscow has been presented with no evidence of Russian soldiers and weapons entering east Ukraine despite Western accusations that Russia is reinforcing rebels there, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Fighting rages near Donetsk airport as Russia and Ukraine bicker
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”. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Eleven Ukraine civilians killed when stray military rocket hits intercity bus
Eleven Ukrainian civilians were killed and nearly 20 injured on Tuesday when a long-range Grad rocket apparently fired by pro-Russian insurgents hit an intercity bus in the separatist east. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Merkel presses Putin, Ukraine leader on peace efforts
German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke Saturday to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Petro Poroshenko in a bid to arrange a mini-summit that could actually end the ex-Soviet state’s separatist war. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Fury as Ukraine TV station fills New Year’s Eve show with Russian songs
One of Ukraine’s biggest television networks is facing calls to be taken off air for filling its New Year’s Eve show with Russian songs beamed live from Moscow. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Thousands of Ukraine nationalists march in Kiev
Thousands of Ukrainian nationalists held a torchlight procession across Kiev on Thursday in honour of a 1940s anti-Soviet insurgent branded by Moscow as a Nazi collaborator whom Europe must reject. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Ukraine president Poroshenko to meet Putin, Obama in peace talks
Ukraine’s Western-backed leader Petro Poroshenko has promised to meet Russia’s Vladimir Putin and involve US President Barack Obama in his stalled push for peace with pro-Kremlin fighters in the separatist east. …read more Source: South China Morning...
