Section: South China Morning Post (China)
Pro-Russian rebels parade captured Ukrainian soldiers before crowd
Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine paraded dozens of captured soldiers before a jeering crowd yesterday in mockery of Independence Day celebrations in the capital. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Events from Iraq to Ukraine call into focus Barack Obama’s world view
The week began with the breaking of the siege of Mount Sinjar in Iraq, thanks to US bombing, and ended with the public beheading of journalist James Foley in Syria and renewed Russian aggression in Ukraine. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Merkel holds crisis talks in Kiev as controversial Russian aid convoy pulls out
Russia’s controversial aid convoy to war-torn eastern Ukraine returned across the border on Saturday, as German Chancellor Angela Merkel held crisis talks in Kiev with the country’s pro-Western leaders. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Kiev says Russia has invaded as ‘aid’ trucks cross border
Ukraine declared yesterday that Russia had launched a “direct invasion” of its territory after Moscow – frustrated by delays – sent a convoy of 130 aid trucks across the border into eastern Ukraine where pro-Russian rebels are fighting government forces. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Kiev accuses Russia of ‘invasion’ as aid trucks cross border into Ukraine
The first 10 trucks of a massive and disputed Russian humanitarian aid convoy crossed the Ukrainian border on Friday and reached a customs point just inside the war-torn country. …read more Source: South China Morning...
First Russian aid trucks reach customs point inside Ukraine
The first 10 trucks of a massive and disputed Russian humanitarian aid convoy crossed the Ukrainian border on Friday and reached a customs point just inside the war-torn country. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Dozens of civilians killed in Ukraine clashes
Fierce fighting between government forces and pro-Russian rebels left dozens of civilians dead yesterday as Ukrainian troops pushed on with a bloody offensive to break the insurgency in the east of the country. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Ukrainian troops closing inon rebel-held city of Donetsk
Ukrainian government troops were fighting pro-Russian rebels in the streets of Luhansk yesterday and captured most of a town near the eastern city of Donetsk, tightening the noose around that key rebel-held stronghold, Ukrainian officials said. …read more Source: South China Morning...
15 bodies found after rocket attack on refugee convoy in Ukraine
Fifteen bodies have so far been recovered from the site of a rocket strike on a refugee convoy of buses and cars in eastern Ukraine, a military spokesman said on Tuesday. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Missile attack on buses fleeing violence in east Ukraine kills dozens of civilians
Dozens of people, including women and children, were killed fleeing fighting in eastern Ukraine yesterday when their convoy of buses was hit by rocket fire, military spokesmen said. …read more Source: South China Morning...
