Section: France 24 (France)
NATO chief warns Ukraine truce not being upheld
Ukrainian forces and pro-Kremlin militias were due Sunday to pull back under a new peace plan, but NATO’s top military commander warned that there was a ceasefire “in name only” on the ground. …read more Source: France...
Negociators agree to form buffer zone in east Ukraine
Negotiators in Ukrainian peace talks agreed early Saturday to create a buffer zone to separate government troops and pro-Russian militants and withdraw heavy weapons and foreign fighters in order to ensure a stable truce in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: France...
US to send $46 million in non-lethal aid to Ukraine
The US will send $46 million in military assistance to Ukraine’s military but declined a request from President Petro Poroshenko (left) to send lethal aid to help in the battle against Russian-backed separatists in east Ukraine. …read more Source: France...
Ukraine ratifies EU trade pact in ‘first step’ towards membership
The Ukrainian parliament on Tuesday ratified a landmark EU trade agreement that strengthens the former Soviet state’s ties with the West in what President Petro Poroshenko a “first step” towards European Union membership. …read more Source: France...
Ukraine set to ratify EU pact and offer rebels self-rule
Ukraine is set Tuesday to ratify a watered-down EU agreement and offer limited self-rule to parts of the separatist east as it tries to turn the page on the bloodiest chapter of its post-Soviet history. …read more Source: France...
Heavy fighting in Donetsk threatens Ukraine ceasefire
Heavy fighting erupted around the rebel stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on Sunday, piling further pressure on a precarious nine-day-old truce between the government and separatist fighters. …read more Source: France...
Russia ‘wants to destroy Ukraine’ says Kiev as fighting flares
Fighting flared near an airport in eastern Ukraine on Saturday in breach of a fragile eight-day ceasefire as the prime minister accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of planning to destroy his country. …read more Source: France...
Video: uneasy calm in Ukraine’s battle-scarred Donetsk
Since the start of a ceasefire last Friday, a fragile and uneasy calm has descended over eastern Ukraine’s rebel stronghold of Donetsk, where the scars of five months of devastating clashes are plain for all to see. …read more Source: France...
Amnesty accuses both sides in Ukraine conflict of war crimes
Amnesty International on Wednesday said it had documented evidence that both Ukrainian forces and pro-Russia separatists have committed war crimes in eastern Ukraine, rejecting Moscow’s claims that it is not a party to the conflict. …read more Source: France...
Flight MH17 pierced by ‘high-speed objects’, says Dutch report
Flight MH17 that crashed over rebel-held eastern Ukraine split into pieces during flight after it was hit by “a large number of high-energy objects”, said a report released by the Netherlands on Tuesday. …read more Source: France...
