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Donetsk queues for water as fighting shuts off supply (AFP)
Aug18

Donetsk queues for water as fighting shuts off supply (AFP)

Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Anastasiya clutches two empty five-litre bottles as she joins a queue of Donetsk residents buying water in the rebel-held east Ukrainian city where supplies were abruptly cut off by shelling damage. …read more Source: The West...

Headway made on Ukraine
Aug18

Headway made on Ukraine

RUSSIA says “certain progress” was reached on all issues discussed at Ukraine crisis talks in Berlin. …read more Source: THE...

Ukraine says rebels killed fleeing civilians as talks fail (AFP)
Aug18

Ukraine says rebels killed fleeing civilians as talks fail (AFP)

Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukraine on Monday accused pro-Russian rebels of shelling a convoy of civilians fleeing the war-torn east, leaving “many” dead, as crisis talks to halt months of bloodshed failed to make a breakthrough. …read more Source: The West...

Rocket fire hits refugee convoy in Ukraine’s east
Aug18

Rocket fire hits refugee convoy in Ukraine’s east

Ukraine has accused pro-Russian rebels of hitting a refugee convoy of buses with rocket fire near the eastern city of Luhansk, killing people trapped in the burning vehicles, but the separatists have denied responsibility. …read more Source: ABC...

Ukraine must halt army offensive: Russia (AAP)
Aug18

Ukraine must halt army offensive: Russia (AAP)

Four-party talks involving Ukraine, Germany and France have made no progress on the issue of a ceasefire, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says. …read more Source: The West...

Ukrainians pawns in Putin’s game
Aug18

Ukrainians pawns in Putin’s game

MY close friends in Lugansk have been drinking industrial water for weeks — the price ordinary Ukrainians are paying for Putin’s ambitions. …read more Source: THE...

Rebels defiant as Ukraine boasts gains
Aug18

Rebels defiant as Ukraine boasts gains

ARMY troops have entered a rebel-controlled city in eastern Ukraine in what could prove a breakthrough development in the conflict, Ukraine says. …read more Source: THE...

Ukraine claims breakthrough in rebel stronghold Luhansk
Aug18

Ukraine claims breakthrough in rebel stronghold Luhansk

Ukrainian forces have raised their national flag over a police station in the city of Luhansk which was for months under rebel control, Kiev said on Sunday, in what could be a breakthrough in Ukraine’s efforts to crush pro-Moscow separatists. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...

Ukraine fighter jet shot down as Kiev accuses Moscow of arming rebels
Aug17

Ukraine fighter jet shot down as Kiev accuses Moscow of arming rebels

Ukraine on Sunday accused Russia of sending more equipment, including rocket launchers, across the border into the restive east of the country. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...

Ukraine accuses rebels of shooting down fighter jet
Aug17

Ukraine accuses rebels of shooting down fighter jet

The Ukrainian military says pro-Russian rebels have shot down a government fighter jet over the war-torn east of the country. …read more Source: ABC...