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Ukraine army prepares for possible rebel offensive – defence chief
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian government forces are redeploying in preparation for a possible new offensive by pro-Russian separatists in eastern regions, Defence Minister Stepan Poltorak said on Wednesday. …read more Source: The...
Nato says it has seen Russian military equipment entering east Ukraine
November 12, 2014 7:26 PMSOFIA (AFP) – Nato has observed columns of Russian military equipment, including tanks, artillery and combat troops entering eastern Ukraine in the past two days, the military alliance’s supreme allied commander said on Wednesday. …read more Source: The Straits...
Heavy artillery fire around Ukraine rebel city Donetsk
East Ukraine’s main rebel bastion of Donetsk was rocked by heavy artillery fire on Wednesday (Nov 12), with the sound of artillery fire and explosions heard in all districts of the mining hub. …read more Source: Channel...
Heavy artillery fire around Ukraine rebel city Donetsk
DONETSK (UKRAINE) – Heavy artillery fire on Wednesday rocked east Ukraine’s main rebel bastion of Donetsk in the fiercest fighting around the city in days, an AFP journalist said. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Shelling Rocks Rebel Stronghold Donetsk in East Ukraine
New shelling rocked the pro-Russian rebel stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday despite a fragile ceasefire. …read more Source:...
MH17: Monitors fear rising violence in eastern Ukraine
KIEV: International observers issued a stark warning over escalating violence in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday as Dutch investigators hoping to recover debris from a doomed airliner left the MH17 crash site with little progress. …read more Source: New Straits...
Russia balks during UN support for Bosnia amid Ukraine rift
In this record photo, Russian Ambassador to a UN Vitaly Churkin (C) vetoes a fortitude on Ukraine during a UN Security Council puncture assembly during United Nations domicile in New York on Mar 15, 2014. PHOTO: AFP UNITED NATIONS: Russia on Tuesday refused to validate a UN fortitude on Bosnia that Moscow pronounced would pull a Balkan nation...
MH17: Dutch families still waiting for remains of loved ones…
AMSTERDAM: Daisy Oehlers and Bryce Fredriksz, a Dutch couple in their early 20s, were sitting near the left wing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 on their way to a holiday in Bali, when “high energy objects” – as officials later called them – struck the plane over eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: New Straits...
Ukraine rebels: a disunited front run by ruthless warlords
They don’t call Nikolai Kozitsyn “Daddy” for nothing. In this rebel-held eastern Ukrainian town, the mustachioed Cossack lords it over the locals and pays little heed to the bosses of the breakaway movement. Patches of Ukraine’s depressed industrial basin in the east — in the throes of a pro-Russian separatist insurgency — have fallen...
Finland Prime Minister warns of new ‘Cold War’
Helsinki: Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb warned today that the conflict in the Ukraine was bringing the world to the “brink of a Cold War” but that trade sanctions were the only credible weapon against Russia.”Russia’s foreign policy doctrine has Cold.. …read more Source: India...
