Section: Thailand
Pro-Russia rebels and commander flee Slavyansk
KIEV – Ukraine’s interior minister said on Saturday most pro-Russian rebels and their top commander had fled their eastern stronghold of Slavyansk in Kiev’s biggest success of the nearly three-month campaign. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Ukraine agrees to crisis talks with rebels and Russia
KIEV – Ukraine’s embattled new leader agreed on Friday to immediate crisis talks with rebel commanders and Russia aimed at stemming the bloodshed that has threatened his country’s survival and ruptured East-West ties. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Ukraine shakes up top brass in new bid to crush rebels
DONETSK (UKRAINE) – Ukraine shook up its beleaguered army’s top brass as clashes raged in the separatist east despite mounting US and German pressure on Russia to force the rebels to halt fire. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Ukraine presses on with attacks on separatists after failed truce
KRAMATORSK (UKRAINE) – Ukrainian forces pressed on with their assault on pro-Russian insurgents after Kiev’s Western-backed leader brushed off European efforts to save a tenuous truce, prompting Russia to raise alarm over the “swiftly deteriorating” situation. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Ukraine leader vows to ‘attack’ rebels as ceasefire dropped
Ukraine’s Western-backed President Petro Poroshenko has announced that Kiev’s forces will resume a military offensive against pro-Russian rebels in east Ukraine after he opted not to prolong a shaky ceasefire. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Ukraine’s Lviv quits 2022 bidding race
The Ukrainian city of Lviv has pulled out of the race to host the 2022 Winter Olympics due to the country’s raging crisis, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Monday. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Putin calls on Ukraine leader to extend truce with rebels
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday joined the leaders of Germany and France in calling on Ukraine to extend its temporary ceasefire with pro-Kremlin militias beyond Monday, the Kremlin said. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Ukraine, Europe leaders talk with Moscow before ceasefire expires
Ukraine’s new president has enlisted support from the leaders of Germany and France for a call on Sunday to Vladimir Putin as a ceasefire deadline looms and after pro-Russian rebels released more European monitors. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Pro-Russia rebels release second Ukraine monitor group
Pro-Kremlin rebels in eastern Ukraine on Saturday released a second group of European monitors after being pressed by Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet the terms of a tenuous truce with Kiev. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Four European monitors released by rebels in east Ukraine
The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said on Saturday that pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine have released four of the group’s monitors they had detained at the end of May. …read more Source: Bangkok...
