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Disabled Ukraine fighters hanker for return to front (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Parts of their bodies burnt to a putrid pulp, separatist rebels mutilated in a year of conflict between pro- and anti-Russian fighters in eastern Ukraine lie in their hospital beds still hankering to return to the front. …read more Source: The West...
Russia’s FM critical of legislation on eastern Ukraine
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) ” Russia’s foreign minister says legislation approved by Ukraine on territories held by Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine goes against a current cease-fire agreement.Sergey Lavrov says “the law goes… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Three soldiers killed in restive east Ukraine (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Three Ukrainian soldiers died when a mine exploded in the separatist-held east where isolated clashes continue to undermine a ceasefire aimed at ending a year-long war. …read more Source: The West...
Three soldiers killed in east Ukraine (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Three soldiers died when a mine exploded in Ukraine’s separatist-held east where isolated clashes continue to undermine a ceasefire aimed at ending a year-long war. …read more Source: The West...
Divided but not defeated, Ukrainians seek to heal war wounds (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Kiev resident Anna Okhrimenko stopped speaking Russian after Moscow annexed Crimea last year, and does not think much of her pro-Russian compatriots caught up in the year-long war raging in Ukraine’s east. …read more Source: The West...
Russia’s role in Ukraine seen shifting to training rebels
YENAKIEYEVE, Ukraine (AP) ” On a recent spring morning, an important visitor watched Russian-backed rebels conduct infantry maneuvers in eastern Ukraine.”The general is very pleased,” rebel commander Ostap Cherny told his troops,… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Fragile ceasefire a dark joke to many in east Ukraine (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – With heavily-armed men patrolling the streets, shootings in the dark of night and the echo of gunfire from the airport, life is far from normal in the east Ukraine city of Donetsk weeks after the signing of a ceasefire. …read more Source: The West...
Russia pulls plug on Crimean Tatar TV sparking Ukraine outrage (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Russian authorities on Wednesday shut down a television channel serving Crimean Tatars, an ethnic group that opposed Moscow’s seizure of Crimea, sparking concern in Ukraine and the West. …read more Source: The West...
Deadly Ukraine rocket strike another shot in propaganda war (AFP)
Shyrokyne (Ukraine) (AFP) – On a deserted road in east Ukraine, a missile strike briefly became the focus of the propaganda war that rages unabated despite the lull in fighting between pro-Russian rebels and the government. …read more Source: The West...
Rebels in eastern Ukraine pay pension in Russian rubles
DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) ” Russia-backed rebel authorities in eastern Ukraine have started paying pensions in Russian rubles.Yekaterina Matyushchenko, the finance minister in the Donetsk region’s separatist government, said Wednesday… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
