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Rebels seize ground as West claims Russia army is in Ukraine
Rebels in east Ukraine appear to have seized swathes of territory from retreating government forces, while Western intelligence says Russian army units are operating inside the country. …read more Source: Channel...
Senior UN official to assess human rights situation in eastern Ukraine
The UN assistant secretary- general for human rights, Ivan Simonovic, will begin a seven-day visit to Ukraine on Thursday, which will also take him to eastern Ukraine to assess the human rights situation there, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said here Wednesday. …read more Source:...
Fighting moves to south-east Ukraine as Kiev suggests new road map
Ukraine proposed a road map on Wednesday to solve the bloody conflict in the country’s east, while the United States and Kiev said there was evidence the Russian military was moving toward south-e… …read more Source: The...
Merkel phones Putin over Ukrainian situation
Merkel called for clarification of reports on the presence of Russian troops on the Ukrainian territory in the telephone conversation n. …read more Source:...
UN official to assess human rights situation in Ukraine
The UN assistant secretary-general for human rights, Ivan Simonovic, will begin a seven-day visit to Ukraine on Thursday, which will also take him to eastern Ukraine to assess the human rights situation there. …read more Source: China...
Russia has opened new war front: Ukraine
The Obama administration, which has placed increasingly punitive economic sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine crisis, on Tuesday asserted that the Russians had sent new columns of tanks and armour across the Ukrainian border …read more Source: The Times of...
World › Battle for Ukraine’s southeast coast intensifies
Pushing west in a new offensive along Ukraine’s strategic coastline, heavily armed Russian-backed separatist forces captured new territory Wednesday far from their previous battles with government troops. The bold offensive along a new southeastern front raised the prospect that the separatists are seeking to create a land link between...
Battle for key southeast coast heats up in Ukraine
The battle for Ukraine’s strategic coastline heated up Wednesday as a local mayor reported that pro-Russian rebel forces entered a key town in southeast Ukraine after three days of heavy shelling. Novoazovsk, a resort town of 40,000 on the Sea of Azov, lies in a strategically significant location — on the road linking Russia to […] The post...
Kiev says Russian troops have “set up HQ” in east
Ukraine said on Wednesday (Aug 27) that a battalion of Russian soldiers had set up a base in the southeast of the country, as AFP correspondents reported an apparent retreat of government forces around the main rebel-held city of Donetsk. …read more Source: Channel...
Russia is ‘not interested in breaking up’ Ukraine: Lavrov
Russia’s foreign minister said Wednesday (Aug 27) that Moscow was not interested in breaking up Ukraine despite respecting declarations of independence by the two main eastern regions. …read more Source: Channel...
