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Ukraine claims more territory as fight intensifies with rebels
KIEV: Ukraine said today its troops had wrested more territory from pro-Russian rebels, advancing towards the site where Malaysian flight MH17 was brought down, which international investigators said they could not reach because of the fighting. …read more Source: New Straits...
Putin Defiant in Face of New EU Arms Sanctions
President Vladimir Putin on Monday urged Russia’s defence industry to swiftly cut imports as the EU looks set to impose a ban on the sale of weapons and technology over Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Police team turns back from Ukraine crash site
An international police team abandoned its attempt to reach the crash site of a Malaysia Airlines plane for a second day running Monday as clashes raged in a town on the road to the area. With government troops intensifying their push to claw back more territory from pro-Russian separatist rebels, the death toll is mounting […] The post...
MH17: Ukraine says recorders show “massive compressive decompression” brought down airliner
KIEV: Analysis of the black box flight recorders from a downed Malaysian airliner show it was destroyed by shrapnel coming from a rocket blast and went down because of “massive explosive decompression“, a Ukrainian security official said today. …read more Source: New Straits...
Japan to extend sanctions on Russia over Ukraine
Japan said Monday that it will impose additional sanctions against Russia over recent Ukrainian upheaval and called on members of the Group of Seven (G7) to work on probing Malaysian passenger plane that crashed in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Police team turns back from Ukraine crash site
An international police team abandoned its attempt to reach the crash site of a Malaysia Airlines plane for a second day running Monday as clashes raged in a town on the road to the area. With government troops intensifying their push to claw back more territory from pro-Russian separatist rebels, the death toll is mounting […] The post...
MH17 military mission ‘unrealistic’
GRABOVE, Ukraine (AFP) ― The Netherlands on Sunday scrapped plans to send an international armed mission to secure the c …read more Source: The Korea...
Russia bans import of processed Ukrainian fruit and vegetables
Russia on Monday (July 28) slapped a ban on the import of processed fruit and vegetables from Ukraine in the latest of a series of trade restrictions as Kiev deepens ties with the European Union. The ban will come into force on July 29. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine rebels say army wrests control of part of MH17 site
The Ukrainian army has seized control of part of the vast crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in the east of the country, pro-Russia rebels said on Monday (July 28). The troops had been battling rebels for control of towns around the crash site. …read more Source: Channel...
MH17 black boxes show crash caused by rocket shrapnel: Ukraine
Black boxes recovered from downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in rebel-held east Ukraine show shrapnel from a rocket explosion caused the passenger jet to crash, a Ukrainian security official said Monday (July 28). …read more Source: Channel...
