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Fears for truce as attacking rebels mass near Ukraine port city
Pro-Russian forces massing near Ukraine’s port city of Mariupol are continuing to attack government troop positions, Kiev said on Monday (Feb 23), fuelling concerns for the fate of a UN-backed ceasefire. …read more Source: Channel...
Russia accuses Western powers of trying to dominate world
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday accused Western powers of trying to dominate and impose their ideology on the rest of world, while the United States and European delegations slammed Moscow for supporting rebels in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Channel...
Pro-Russia rebels violate truce outside port city Ukraine
KIEV – Pro-Russian forces massing near Ukraine’s port city of Mariupol are continuing to attack government troop positions, Kiev said on Monday, fuelling concerns for the fate of an internationally brokered ceasefire.Tensions were also high following a bomb blast Sunday in the normally peaceful eastern city of Kharkiv. In their latest...
Putin surveys the map as he ponders next move on Ukraine
MOSCOW – In Russia, Vladimir Putin likes to portray himself as the saviour of the nation. In Europe and the United States he has come to be seen as a threat to the new world order.What the Russian president does next in Ukraine is key to the country’s future, as well as that of Europe and his own.Putin looks to have the upper hand at...
Putin surveys the map as he ponders next move on Ukraine
In Russia, Vladimir Putin likes to portray himself as the saviour of the nation. In Europe and the United States he has come to be seen as a threat to the new world order. …read more Source: Channel...
Kiev says cannot withdraw heavy weapons as attacks persist
Ukraine’s military said on Monday it could not start withdrawing heavy weapons from the front line in the east as required under a tenuous ceasefire because pro-Russian separatists who advanced last week were still attacking its positions. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine says no weapons pull-back until full ceasefire
KIEV – Ukraine’s military said Monday that it is waiting for a full ceasefire with pro-Russian rebels before withdrawing heavy weapons from the frontline, a key next step in a tattered peace plan.”As Ukrainian positions are still being fired upon there can be no talk yet of a withdrawal of weapons,” military spokesman...
Ukraine says no weapons pull-back until full ceasefire
The Ukrainian military said any withdrawal of heavy weapons from the frontline will come after a full ceasefire with Russian rebels is in place, as “Ukrainian positions are still being fired upon”. …read more Source: Channel...
Pro-Russian rebels agree to pull back weapons
NIZHNYAYA KRYNKA, Ukraine – A senior pro-Russian rebel commander said separatist forces were due to begin withdrawing heavy weapons from the front line in eastern Ukraine yesterday, a sign that the rebels may be prepared to halt their advance, as part of an internationally brokered peace deal.Fighting has eased in many areas since a...
Residents of shattered Ukraine town leave shelters in search of aid
February 23, 2015 3:51 AMDEBALTSEVE, Ukraine (AFP) – Soviet-era music, remixed to a modern techno track, thunders across Lenin Square in Debaltseve, where a woman jigs a couple of steps in dance. …read more Source: The Straits...
