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Swiss firm sells camouflage nets to sanctions-hit Russia (AFP)
Geneva (AFP) – Russia has acquired high-tech camouflage netting from Switzerland for a record 85 million euros, having placed the order before Bern imposed sanctions against Moscow over the Ukraine conflict, reports said Sunday. …read more Source: The West...
Boom in journalist drone use flies into legal obstacles (AFP)
Paris (AFP) – Flying over the flaming barricades of the Maidan protests in Kiev, the camps of Auschwitz or hurtling down a ski slope — drones have become a vital tool for cameramen, but they are increasingly running into legal and practical obstacles. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine rebels insist heavy weapons withdrawn from front line
Under the terms of the European-brokered, Russian-backed truce, both sides to Ukraine’s 11-month conflict must move their artillery back far enough to create a buffer zone of between 50 kilometres and 140 kilometres, depending on the weapons’ range. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
East Ukraine rebels say heavy weapons pullback complete (AFP)
Snizhne (Ukraine) (AFP) – Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine claimed Saturday to have completed their withdrawal of heavy weapons, in line with a February ceasefire deal. …read more Source: The West...
Tears and accusations as Ukraine buries mine blast victims (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Emotions ran high as mourners in east Ukraine on Friday laid to rest some of the 33 miners killed in an apparent gas blast at a notoriously dangerous coal mine in rebel-led Donetsk. …read more Source: The West...
‘On the brink’: Ukrainian pilot ends hunger strike in Russia jail (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko has ended a more than 80 days hunger strike in protest at her detention in Russia after her health came near to collapse, her lawyer said on Friday. …read more Source: The West...
Russia, Germany urge OSCE to boost Ukraine observers to 1,000 (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Russia and Germany on Friday urged the OSCE to more than double the number of its observers in Ukraine to 1,000, to monitor a sputtering ceasefire as the EU downplayed the threat of new sanctions against Moscow. …read more Source: The West...
Russia, Germany urge OSCE to double Ukraine observers to 1,000 (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Russia and Germany on Friday urged the OSCE, which is charged with monitoring a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine, to double the number of observers in the country to 1,000, Moscow said. …read more Source: The West...
Ukrainian pilot ends hunger strike in Russian jail: lawyer (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko has decided to end a hunger strike after going more than 80 days without food to protest her detention in a Russian jail, one of her lawyers said on Friday. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine blockade breeding resentment
THE war in Ukraine that brought death and destruction to the region has largely abated, but the misery remains. …read more Source: THE...
