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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:...
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...
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 army wrests control of part of crash site
DONETSK: 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 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:...
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...
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...
Satellite images show ‘Russian rockets, artillery used in Ukraine’
The United States has stepped up pressure on Moscow by releasing satellite images it says show that rockets have been fired from Russia into neighbouring eastern Ukraine and that heavy artillery for pro-Russian separatists has crossed the border. …read more Source: South China Morning...
MH17: Downing of flight may amount to “war crime” – UN
KUALA LUMPUR: The downing of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 aircraft in eastern Ukraine “may amount to a war crime“, said United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay. …read more Source: New Straits...
