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Mortar bomb hits Red Cross building in Ukraine's Donetsk, one killed – agency
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A mortar bomb hit a building used by the International Committee of the Red Cross in Ukraine’s separatist-held city of Donetsk on Thursday, killing a Swiss citizen, Russian news agency Interfax quoted the rebels’ defence ministry as saying. …read more Source: The...
Hundreds of Russian troops still in Ukraine – NATO
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Hundreds of Russian troops, including special forces, remain inside Ukraine and Moscow still has around 20,000 soldiers near the Ukrainian border, a NATO military spokesman said on Thursday. …read more Source: The...
Latvia heads to election under shadow of assertive Russia
RIGA (Reuters) – Latvians look likely to back their hawkish centre-right ruling coalition in a parliamentary election on Saturday amid increased tensions with giant neighbour Russia, Riga’s communist-era ruler, over the Ukraine crisis …read more Source: The...
Putin says he hopes election will bring Ukraine stability
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said he hoped Ukraine’s parliamentary election on Oct. 26 would help bring stability to country. …read more Source: The...
Russia's Putin pledges help to sanctions-hit companies, banks
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday the government would help companies hit by Western sanctions over Ukraine and that it would increase the capital of domestic banks. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine energy minister, Oettinger to meet over Russia gas talks
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Ukrainian Energy Minister Yuri Prodan is scheduled to meet European Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger on Thursday in an attempt to work out a date and venue for the next round of talks with Russia aimed at resolving a gas crisis. …read more Source: The...
Ten killed in Ukraine’s Donetsk on first day of school
Ukraine’s largest rebel-controlled city of Donetsk was shaken by violence yesterday as 10 people, including parents and teachers, were killed, the highest toll since a tenuous ceasefire was agreed. Terrified children, arriving for the first day of school, were forced to shelter in the basement as the shelling yielded the highest...
Merkel tells Putin Moscow has duty to temper separatists in Ukraine
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel stressed to Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call on Wednesday that Moscow had a duty to temper pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine, a spokesman for the German government said. …read more Source: The...
Merkel urges Putin to use influence over Ukraine rebels
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, during a telephone call with President Vladimir Putin yesterday, stressed Moscow’s “responsibility” to act as a moderating influence over the pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine. The ceasefire in place in eastern Ukraine “must be strictly respected”, a statement by a German government...
NATO's new leader says Russia can still destabilise Ukraine
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The ceasefire in Ukraine offers an opportunity but Russia still has the power to destabilise the country, NATO’s new Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday. …read more Source: The...
