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NATO launches ‘spearhead’ drill on eastern flank (AFP)
Jun09

NATO launches ‘spearhead’ drill on eastern flank (AFP)

Zagan (Poland) (AFP) – NATO on Tuesday launched the first full drill of its new spearhead force in northern Poland, a structure designed to boost security on its eastern flank in the wake of Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...

Deadly Kiev fuel blasts set off blaze near military unit (AFP)
Jun09

Deadly Kiev fuel blasts set off blaze near military unit (AFP)

Kryachki (Ukraine) (AFP) – Hundreds of Ukrainian firefighters battled Tuesday to keep a blaze sparked by a deadly string of fuel depot blasts from engulfing a strategic military unit outside Kiev that has Mig-29 fighter jets and rockets on site. …read more Source: The West...

Kiev evacuates hundreds after Kiev fuel depot blasts (AFP)
Jun09

Kiev evacuates hundreds after Kiev fuel depot blasts (AFP)

Kryachki (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukraine urgently evacuated hundreds of residents Tuesday from the site of a series of fuel depot blasts near Kiev that set off a ferocious fire and left several people missing and at least one confirmed dead. …read more Source: The West...

Massive blaze engulfs fuel depot
Jun09

Massive blaze engulfs fuel depot

FIREFIGHTERS are frantically working to contain a deadly inferno engulfing a Ukrainian fuel depot before it reaches a nearby military air base. …read more Source:...

G7 warns ‘wrong-headed’ Putin
Jun09

G7 warns ‘wrong-headed’ Putin

World leaders warned they were prepared to extend sanctions on Russia despite their ruinous economic impact. …read more Source: THE...

Kiev evacuates hundreds from site of deadly Kiev fuel blasts (AFP)
Jun09

Kiev evacuates hundreds from site of deadly Kiev fuel blasts (AFP)

Kryachki (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukraine urgently evacuated hundreds of residents Tuesday from the site of a series of fuel depot blasts near Kiev that set off a ferocious fire and left several people missing and at least one confirmed dead. …read more Source: The West...

Ukraine evacuates hundreds from site of deadly Kiev fuel blasts
Jun09

Ukraine evacuates hundreds from site of deadly Kiev fuel blasts

Hundreds of residents were evacuated from the site of a series of fuel depot blasts near the Ukrainian capital that set off a ferocious fire and left several people missing and at least one confirmed dead. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...

‘Gigantic’ blast hits fuel depot near Kiev
Jun09

‘Gigantic’ blast hits fuel depot near Kiev

Ukrainian emergency services battle to contain a deadly fuel depot fire outside Kiev, with three firemen reported missing after the blaze triggers a powerful explosion. …read more Source: ABC...

What was agreed at the G7 summit in Germany (AFP)
Jun08

What was agreed at the G7 summit in Germany (AFP)

Elmau Castle (Germany) (AFP) – The leaders of the Group of Seven industrial nations met for a two-day summit in the Bavarian Alps with a heavy agenda including global terrorism, Ukraine and climate change. …read more Source: The West...

Russia refuses to sign IAEA annual report, says Sevastopol not in Ukraine (Reuters)
Jun08

Russia refuses to sign IAEA annual report, says Sevastopol not in Ukraine (Reuters)

By Shadia Nasralla VIENNA (Reuters) – Russia has refused to sign off on the U.N. nuclear watchdog’s annual report because the document lists a nuclear reactor near Crimea’s Sevastopol … …read more Source: The West...