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Pro-Russian rebels vote for leaders in eastern Ukraine
Pro-Russian rebels voted to set up a separatist leadership in eastern Ukraine today, aiming to take the war-torn region closer to Russia and defying Kiev and the West, as shelling continued across the territory. The United States and European Union have denounced the vote as illegitimate, which is sure to stoke tensions further between the…...
Controversial election: Ukraine separatists to vote
DONETSK: Separatists in eastern Ukraine voted today in controversial, Russian-backed leadership elections that Kiev and the West have refused to recognise and which threatened to deepen an international crisis over the conflict. …read more Source: New Straits...
Pro-Russian rebels vote for leader in war-torn eastern Ukraine
DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – Pro-Russian separatists will vote to set up a breakaway regional leadership in eastern Ukraine on Sunday aiming to take their war-torn region closer to Russia and defying Kiev and the West as the big guns still boom across the territory. …read more Source: The...
Six Ukraine soldiers die in eastern clashes with rebels – military
KIEV/DONETSK (Reuters) – Six Ukrainian soldiers were killed in the past 24 hours, a military spokesman said on Saturday, as a fragile ceasefire in the east was tested by heavy mortar fire in the separatist stronghold of Donetsk ahead of a rebel election. …read more Source: The...
Hungry, cash-strapped Donetsk residents queue for food parcels
Outside the iconic football stadium in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, Yulia holds her four-year-old son Maxim by the hand as they wait for the food parcels to arrive. “I’ve never come to get humanitarian aid before. I was living off my stored supplies, but I don’t have anything left,” says Yulia, 30, who lost her job when her...
Russian media watchdog blasts radio station over Ukraine coverage
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian state watchdog has warned a radio station known for its critical reporting of President Vladimir Putin’s government over a talk show it broadcast about the Ukraine conflict, the station said on its website on Friday. …read more Source: The...
Dutch team recovers human remains from MH17 crash site – PM
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – A Dutch team took advantage of a pause in fighting between government forces and pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine on Friday to recover human remains from the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash site, the Dutch prime minister said. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine soldiers to government: we’re coming for you next
DNIPROPETROVSK (UKRAINE): Vitaliy Feshchenko, one of thousands of Ukrainian volunteers fighting pro-Russian rebels, has this message for government leaders back in the capital Kiev: his battle-hardened men might come for them next.The bearded fighter’s warning illustrates the lack of trust Ukraine’s young revolutionaries have in...
Dutch team back at MH17 crash site
Dutch forensics experts have returned to the site of downed flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine on Friday, where they gathered body parts despite continued clashes in the area, Prime Minister Mark Rutte said. “Today the circumstances allowed for a small Dutch team… to travel to the crash site and we grabbed the opportunity with both...
Gazprom to resume gas supply once Ukraine pays $2.2 billion
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia could resume natural gas deliveries to Ukraine as soon as next week if Kiev pays $2.2 billion (1.4 billion pounds) in debt and pre-payments, gas exporter Gazprom said on Friday, under a deal that also safeguards winter deliveries to Europe. …read more Source: The...
