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Russia sending more tanks and troops into Ukraine to take next battlefront, Kiev says
Kiev has accused Russia of sending more tanks and troops into eastern Ukraine and said they were heading towards the rebel-held town of Novoazovsk on the southern coast, expanding their presence on what could be the next battlefront. …read more Source:...
Evidence shows Kremlin directed snipers in Kiev – Poroshenko
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Friday (Saturday NZT) police evidence showed that a top Kremlin aide, Vladislav Surkov, had directed “foreign sniper groups” who shot and killed protesters in Kiev a year ago. …read more Source:...
Ukraine’s peacekeeping plan is a sham, and a shame
OPINION: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has just performed a sharp about-face: after months of rejecting the idea, he is now calling for United Nations peacekeepers to separate the sides in eastern Ukraine. A UN force really could help secure the country’s dysfunctional truce. It’s a shame that Poroshenko’s proposal is...
Ukrainian forces forced to retreat as fighting rages
Fighting raged in parts of east Ukraine on Thursday (Friday NZT) despite European efforts to resurrect a stillborn ceasefire, a day after pro-Russian separatists spurned the truce by forcing thousands of government troops out of a strategic town. …read more Source:...
Ukraine calls for international peacekeeping mission
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has called for an international peacekeeping mission in his nation’s war-torn east, a stark admission that his nation can no longer fend off pro-Russian rebels after a major battlefield defeat. …read more Source:...
Ukrainian soldiers tell of harrowing escape from pro-Russian rebels’ noose
When the order to retreat came over the radio, most of the Ukrainian troops under siege in Debaltseve abandoned their heavy weapons, blew up their ammunition, and then fled in convoys of trucks as pro-Russian forces shot at them along the way. …read more Source:...
Ukraine calls for international peacekeeping mission
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has called for an international peacekeeping mission in his nation’s war-torn east, a stark admission that his nation can no longer fend off pro-Russian rebels after a major battlefield defeat. …read more Source:...
Ukrainian forces flee besieged town after rebel assault
Ukraine has pulled thousands of troops out of an encircled town after a massive assault by pro-Russian rebels, who ignored a new ceasefire to seize the strategic railway junction. …read more Source:...
High Ukrainian casualties despite ceasefire
Twenty-two Ukrainian soldiers were killed and more than 150 were wounded in fighting with Russian-backed separatists in the railway junction of Debaltseve in the last few days, Interfax news agency quoted the armed forces general staff as saying on Wednesday (Thursday NZT). …read more Source:...
Ukraine truce unravels as battle rages, arms pullback stalls
Pro-Russian rebels and government forces fought street-to-street in a strategic town in east Ukraine on Tuesday (Wednesday NZT) and refused to pull back their heavy guns, all but scuppering hopes that a European-brokered peace deal will end months of conflict. …read more Source:...
