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Hollande, Merkel, Putin, Poroshenko say Ukraine truce ‘generally respected’ (AFP)
Paris (AFP) – The leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine on Wednesday said the truce between government forces and pro-Russian insurgents in east Ukraine had been “generally respected since September 1”, the French presidency said in a statement. …read more Source: The West...
‘Unlawful’ vote in rebel-run areas would breach Ukraine peace deal: PM (AFP)
Warsaw (AFP) – Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk warned Wednesday that any attempt to hold “unlawful” elections in rebel-run areas in the country’s east would constitute a breach of a February peace deal. …read more Source: The West...
Exclusive – Russia building major military base near Ukrainian border (Reuters)
By Anton Zverev SOLOTI, Russia (Reuters) – Russia has started to build a huge military base housing ammunition depots and barracks for several thousand soldiers near the Ukrainian borde… …read more Source: The West...
Poroshenko may renege on self-rule promise if Russia violates truce (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko warned Wednesday he may renege on his promise to give pro-Russian separatists more power should Moscow fail to abide by the terms of a shacky truce. …read more Source: The West...
Russian accuses Kiev PM of fighting Moscow in Chechnya (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – The head of Russia’s powerful investigative body claimed Wednesday that Ukraine’s bespectacled technocrat prime minister fought in Chechya with Islamist insurgents against Moscow. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine still faces threat of Russian military offensive – Poroshenko (Reuters)
By Pavel Polityuk and Natalia Zinets KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine still faces the threat of a full-scale Russian military attack despite several days of relative calm on the front-lines of … …read more Source: The West...
U.N. says close to 8,000 killed in east Ukraine (Reuters)
GENEVA (Reuters) – 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 regula… …read more Source: The West...
New Ukraine truce: rays of hope and clouds of doubt (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine’s warring sides marked a week without heavy fighting Monday in a tentatively encouraging change to a 17-month war that has debilitated Western relations with Russia and unsettled eastern Europe. …read more Source: The West...
France proposes talks with Ukraine, Russia, Germany in September (AFP)
Paris (AFP) – French President Francois Hollande on Monday offered to host talks on the situation in Ukraine with his German, Russian and Ukrainian counterparts, as a February truce finally appeared to be holding. …read more Source: The West...
IMF chief urges Ukraine’s creditors to back debt restructuring plan (Reuters)
By Natalia Zinets and Richard Balmforth KIEV (Reuters) – International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde on Sunday lauded Ukraine’s economic progress and urged its creditors to join… …read more Source: The West...
