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Ukraine president suggests NATO referendum
Dec29

Ukraine president suggests NATO referendum

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed a law ending his country’s non-aligned status. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...

Ukraine president suggests NATO referendum (AAP)
Dec29

Ukraine president suggests NATO referendum (AAP)

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed a law ending his country’s non-aligned status. …read more Source: The West...

Latvia to grapple with Russia as EU president (AFP)
Dec28

Latvia to grapple with Russia as EU president (AFP)

Riga (AFP) – Latvia takes over as European Union president on Thursday, putting it on the front line of negotiations with neighbouring Russia over the deadly crisis in Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...

Poroshenko hails Ukraine ‘warriors’ freed by rebels (AFP)
Dec27

Poroshenko hails Ukraine ‘warriors’ freed by rebels (AFP)

Kiev (AFP) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Saturday welcomed home as heroes 145 soldiers freed by pro-Russian rebels during the largest prisoner swap of the eight-month separatist war. …read more Source: The West...

Ukraine secures cheap Russian coal and power supplies (AFP)
Dec27

Ukraine secures cheap Russian coal and power supplies (AFP)

Kiev (AFP) – Moscow promised on Saturday to resume shipping coal and provide electricity to Ukraine for the first time in three years despite Kiev’s failure to guarantee energy supplies to Russian-occupied Crimea. …read more Source: The West...

‘Welcome to the media war’: Ukraine moves to counter Russian spin (AFP)
Dec27

‘Welcome to the media war’: Ukraine moves to counter Russian spin (AFP)

Debaltseve (Ukraine) (AFP) – Donning bullet-proof jackets, a score of foreign journalists clamber aboard an armoured vehicle headed for Ukraine’s front line as Kiev flexes muscle in the propaganda war with Russia. …read more Source: The West...

Ukraine and rebels swap captives
Dec27

Ukraine and rebels swap captives

HUNDREDS of prisoners are set to be swapped as part of a new peace push between the Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels. …read more Source:...

Ukraine and pro-Russia rebels swap hundreds of prisoners
Dec27

Ukraine and pro-Russia rebels swap hundreds of prisoners

Ukrainian authorities and separatists have exchanged hundreds of prisoners of war following peace talks in Minsk. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...

Ukraine and pro-Russia rebels swap POWs
Dec27

Ukraine and pro-Russia rebels swap POWs

UKRAINIAN authorities and pro-Russia rebels exchange nearly 370 prisoners in a major step toward easing hostilities. …read more Source: THE...

Prisoners swapped in dark of Ukraine frontline (AFP)
Dec26

Prisoners swapped in dark of Ukraine frontline (AFP)

Kostyantynivka (Ukraine) (AFP) – The two warring sides lined up the prisoners some 100 metres apart on an isolated stretch of highway in the no-man’s land between their frontlines. …read more Source: The West...