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Teens killed as shelling hits school sports ground in Ukraine
Two teenagers have been killed after shelling hit a school sports ground where they were playing football in east Ukraine’s rebel-held Donetsk. …read more Source: ABC...
Ukraine peace plan threatened
The ceasefire in Ukraine is hanging by a thread after the President accused pro-Russian rebels of sinking the peace process. …read more Source:...
Shell kills boys playing football in Ukraine
Two boys playing football were killed in rebel stronghold Donetsk when a shell landed in a school football field in defiance of a shaky ceasefire in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Life as a Ukrainian prisoner of war
Ruslan Tinkalyuk cut a forlorn figure as he took a long, slow drag on a Chesterfield cigarette. Dirty and unkempt, he was curled up by a small barrel fire amid the rubble of an apartment destroyed by a rocket in this war-torn eastern Ukrainian town. …read more Source:...
Shell kills young footballers in crumbling Ukraine ceasefire (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukraine’s tattered ceasefire came under new strain Wednesday as shelling killed two teenagers playing football in rebel-held Donetsk and President Petro Poroshenko said he was deploying reinforcements to face a threatened separatist offensive. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine civilians killed as shells hit schoolyard in Donetsk (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Two civilians including a teenage boy were killed on Wednesday when shelling hit a school playing field in east Ukraine’s rebel-held Donetsk, an AFP journalist said. …read more Source: The West...
Surrounded by rebels, Ukrainian soldiers battle on (AFP)
Frunze (Ukraine) (AFP) – The boom of incoming artillery fire from the Ukrainian position sends the pro-Russian rebels scrambling for cover. …read more Source: The West...
Merkel sees more Ukraine rebels on sanctions list
BERLIN (AP) German Chancellor Angela Merkel is indicating that more rebel leaders in eastern Ukraine could be added to lists of people targeted by European Union sanctions following much-criticized weekend elections.Ukraine and… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Kiev cuts funds to rebel east
FINANCIAL aid from Kiev to the pro-Russian separatist eastern regions will be stopped. …read more Source: THE...
Ukraine PM cuts financial aid to rebel-held regions
Ukraine’s prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk says financial aid from the central government to the pro-Russian separatist eastern regions will be stopped until “terrorists clear out of there”. …read more Source: ABC...
