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The talks were aimed at halting fierce fighting between government forces, separatists
Peace talks between Ukrainian government and rebels in Minsk have ended without a deal. The talks were aimed at halting fierce fighting between government forces and separatists that have claimed scores of lives in recent days. …read more Source: Radio...
Ukraine peace talks end without agreement
MINSK – Peace talks to thrash out a truce agreement between pro-Russian rebels and Ukraine ended without a deal Saturday, Kiev’s representative at the talks in Minsk said. Former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma told Interfax Ukraine news agency the talks had been ‘thwarted’ after top rebel leaders stayed away and their...
Mariupol is Ukraine’s Kobane
Luke Coffey Since the so-called ceasefire agreement was signed last September, fighting had continued in eastern Ukraine but on a low and localised level. However, with renewed fighting in Luhansk, the recent capture of Donetsk airport by the rebels, and the new offensive to capture the important city of Mariupol, it looks like the Russia-...
Ukraine needs the West’s help now
Steven Pifer and Strobe Talbott The new year has brought more misery to Ukraine. Separatist fighters, supported by Russian troops, have launched attacks in Donetsk and Luhansk. Diplomatic efforts have made no progress towards a settlement — or even towards firming up a ceasefire that has all but collapsed. The West, including the US, needs...
Ukraine peace talks end without agreement: Kiev envoy
KIEV (AFP) – Peace talks to thrash out a truce agreement between pro-Russian rebels and Ukraine ended without a deal Saturday, Kievs representatives at the talks in Minsk said.Former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma told Interfax Ukraine news agency that the summit had broken up in failure after top rebel leaders stayed away and their...
Civilians flee east Ukraine town as fighting intensifies
DEBALTSEVE, Ukraine: (AP) – Outgoing heavy-caliber fire boomed incessantly, shaking the ground and rattling windows around the besieged town. Residents of Debaltseve, seemingly inured to the racket, listened impassively as they mustered at the town hall on Saturday to be evacuated with as many belongings as they could carry.The...
Ukraine peace talks begin in Minsk: AFP
MINSK (AFP) – Negotiators from Ukraine, Russia and Europe on Saturday began peace talks in Minsk aimed at establishing a ceasefire between pro-Russian separatists and Kiev as fighting spreads along the frontline.Former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma, the OSCEs Heidi Tagliavini, and separatist representatives Denis Pushilin and Vladislav...
Scramble to treat wounded at last Ukraine frontline hospital
ARTMOVSK (AFP) – A constant stream of ambulances, lorries and civilian cars screeches to a halt outside the last working hospital in this area of the Ukrainian frontline, delivering a growing number of those wounded in intense clashes.The injured arriving at the hospital in the Ukrainian-controlled town of Artemivsk come from villages and...
Kiev hopes for stalled truce talks despite separatist vow
Kiev (AFP) – Kievs pro-Western leaders hope to hold truce talks on Saturday with pro-Russian separatists despite the rebels vow to push their latest offensive in eastern Ukraine if the negotiations should fail.The urgent new round of negotiations in Minsk that had been agreed for Friday under pressure from European envoys was postponed due...
Deep malaise
Different maladies afflict the Muslims and the secular West Hidden in the West’s cloak of democratic lover of freedoms lie the many skeletons of its crimes against humanity. So too the rest of the world, though not to that extent, depending on who held superior power at the time. The entire tally of the West’s killings of Muslims and...
