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UN says close to 8,000 killed in east Ukraine
At least 7,962 people have been killed and 17,811 wounded in violence in eastern Ukraine since mid-April 2014, the U.N. Human Rights Office said on Tuesday, as it published a regular report by U.N. monitors in the country. …read more Source: Channel...
Russia says truce holding in Ukraine but little progress on peace plan
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday fighting has died down in east Ukraine since a new truce was put in place on Sept. 1 but blamed Kiev for not moving forward on other provisions of a peace plan brokered by Germany and France. …read more Source: Channel...
East Ukraine rebels arrest leader amid infighting
A leader of Russian-backed separatists in east Ukraine, Andrei Purgin, has been detained by fellow-rebels in a power struggle as the breakaway region prepares to hold its own elections. …read more Source: Channel...
EU boosts aid to farmers hit by Russia sanctions
The European Commission announced a 500 million euro (365 million pound) package of measures on Monday to provide relief for farmers stung by slumping prices triggered partly by the loss of exports to Russia due to EU sanctions against the country. …read more Source: Channel...
NATO chief to make first visit to Ukraine amid strains with Moscow
NATO’s secretary general will make his first visit to Ukraine this month, Ukraine’s foreign minister said on Monday, dismissing the idea that this would provoke Moscow, which is backing the pro-Russian rebellion in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Channel...
France proposes leaders’ summit on Ukraine to push peace process
French President Francois Hollande on Monday proposed a meeting of the leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine in Paris later this month to push ahead with peace talks after recent ceasefire progress. …read more Source: Channel...
German film portrays Ukraine conflict through local voices
German film director Georg Genoux went as a volunteer to eastern Ukrainian city of Mykolaivka last November to film ordinary people talking about the Ukraine conflict and to help the city destroyed by shelling. …read more Source: Channel...
Replica of most powerful nuclear bomb ever goes on display in Moscow
Eight metres long and weighing 25 tonnes, a replica of the so-called Tsar Bomb, the most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated, has gone on display for the first time in Russia, in the midst of an ongoing standoff with the West over Ukraine. …read more Source: Channel...
Nordic, Baltic foreign ministers call on Russia to release Estonian, Ukrainians
Nordic and Baltic foreign ministers, meeting in Copenhagen on Thursday, called on Russia to immediately release an Estonian policeman who they say was “abducted” from his country and jailed for 15 years in a case that violated international law. …read more Source: Channel...
Insight – Street violence in Kiev dims prospects for peace effort in Ukraine’s east
A spasm of street violence has driven home how hard it is going to be for Ukrainian President President Petro Poroshenko to rally national support behind an internationally-brokered deal to bring peace to the east of his country. …read more Source: Channel...
