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War Between Russia and Ukraine Unlikely : Vladimir Putin
Feb24

War Between Russia and Ukraine Unlikely : Vladimir Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday war with neighbouring Ukraine was unlikely. …read more Source:...

Trapped by Rebel Assault, Ukrainians Stay Under Dead Town
Feb23

Trapped by Rebel Assault, Ukrainians Stay Under Dead Town

One of the biggest battles of the Ukraine war ended last week in a humiliating defeat for government troops, thousands of whom pulled out of this town after a siege and onslaught by separatist fighter… …read more Source:...

Kiev says cannot withdraw heavy weapons as attacks persist
Feb23

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 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 were still under attack. The...

Pro-Russia rebels violate truce outside port city Ukraine
Feb23

Pro-Russia rebels violate truce outside port city Ukraine

Pro-Russian forces massing near Ukraine’s port city of Mariupol are continuing to attack government troop positions, Kiev said today, fuelling concerns for the fate of an internationally brokered ceasefire. …read more Source: The Times of...

France to host ministerial meeting on Ukraine crisis
Feb23

France to host ministerial meeting on Ukraine crisis

The foreign ministers of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine will meet on Tuesday in Paris in an effort to get a stalling peace deal between the central authorities and separatists rebels back on track, a French diplomatic source said. More than a week after a ceasefire agreement that Moscow-backed rebels ignored to capture a strategic town, Kiev...

Cannot Withdraw Heavy Weapons as Attacks Persist, Says Ukraine Military
Feb23

Cannot Withdraw Heavy Weapons as Attacks Persist, Says Ukraine Military

Ukraine’s military said on Monday it could not start withdrawing heavy weapons from the frontline in the east as pro-Russian separatists had not stopped attacking government positions despite a ceasef… …read more Source:...

Residents of Shattered Ukrainian Town Leave Shelters in Search of Aid
Feb22

Residents of Shattered Ukrainian Town Leave Shelters in Search of Aid

Soviet-era music, remixed to a modern techno track, thunders across Lenin Square in Debaltseve, where a woman jigs a couple of steps in dance. …read more Source:...

Blast Kills 2 in East Ukraine as Rebels, Army Wrangle Over Truce
Feb22

Blast Kills 2 in East Ukraine as Rebels, Army Wrangle Over Truce

A bomb killed two people during a pro-government march in the east Ukraine city of Kharkiv today, officials said, as Kiev’s army and rebels wrangled over a truce requiring them to pull back heavy weap… …read more Source:...

Blast Wounds 10 in Kharkiv, Eastern Ukraine Says Police
Feb22

Blast Wounds 10 in Kharkiv, Eastern Ukraine Says Police

An explosion caused by an apparent “terrorist” bomb wounded 10 people during a march in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv today, police told AFP. …read more Source:...

Blast hits march in eastern Ukraine, killing 2
Feb22

Blast hits march in eastern Ukraine, killing 2

Two people were killed and about a dozen injured in a bomb explosion at a march on Sunday in Ukraine’s second-largest city marking the first anniversary of the ouster of president Viktor Yanukovych, the country’s interior ministry said. …read more Source: The Times of...