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Ukraine troops cede prized airport to pro-Russia rebels
KIEV (AFP) – Ukraines military on Thursday said days of unceasing artillery strikes by pro-Russian insurgents had forced its soldiers to abandon a shattered airport that had become the symbolic prize of the nine-month war.Defence officials said fighting around the ruins of the Donetsk air hub — once one of eastern Europes busiest and...
Ukraine leader says pro-Russia rebels paid ‘high price’ for attacks
KIEV – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Thursday that pro-Russian rebels had paid a “high price” for their escalating attacks on government forces across the separatist east. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Ukraine leader says pro-Russia rebels paid ‘high price’ for attacks
Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko gestures as he speaks during a session of the World Economic Forum on January 21, 2015 in Davos -© AFP/File KIEV: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Thursday that pro-Russian rebels had paid a “high price” for their escalating attacks on government forces across the separatist east. “Our enemy paid a...
Ukraine sees imports of European gas overtaking Russian gas this year
DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – Ukraine plans to cover up to 60 percent of this year’s gas import needs with supplies from Europe, leaving its once-dominant supplier Russia delivering the rest, the head of the state energy firm told Reuters on Thursday. …read more Source: The...
France urges Ukraine ceasefire as fighting intensifies
DAVOS (AFP) – France on Friday called for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraines war-torn east, calling the upsurge in fighting barely hours after peace talks in Berlin dreadful.I renew a call in the firmest manner for a ceasefire… and to return to what we had agreed on yesterday, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told AFP on the...
Eight civilians killed in shelling of Ukraine trolleybus – officials
KIEV (Reuters) – An artillery shell or mortar struck a public transport stop in the rebel-controlled city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on Thursday, killing at least eight civilians in an incident both sides blamed on the other. …read more Source: The...
Russian Orthodox leader warns against Western ‘pseudo values’
MOSCOW (AFP) – The head of the Russian Orthodox Church on Thursday delivered a historic first address to parliament in which he urged lawmakers to guard against Western pseudo values.Speaking to the lower house of parliament, the State Duma, Patriarch Kirill also warned Russians against interfering with Gods plan by having abortions or...
Merkel says "not there yet" on lifting of Russia sanctions
[DAVOS] German Chancellor Angela Merkel accused Russia on Thursday of violating Europe’s peaceful post-war order with its interventions in Ukraine and said Europe could not consider lifting economic sanctions against Moscow until it changed course. …read more Source: The Business...
Bloody bus attack in Ukraine as troops abandon airport
The violence came only hours after peace talks in Berlin called for a ceasefire and as the toll from the conflict surpassed 5,000 dead, with a million people also forced from their homes. …read more Source: Channel...
Thirteen people were killed in a trolley bus shelling in Donetsk.
In Ukraine, at least 41 soldiers and civilians were killed in fighting between Kiev and pro-Russian rebel. Thirteen people were killed in a trolley bus shelling in Donetsk while ten soldiers died across the war zone. In another incident, ten civilians were killed in the eastern town of Gorlivka. One woman was killed in Lugansk region. Eight...
