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Ukraine separatist rebels reject ceasefire offer
Ukraine’s pro-Russian separatists have rejected an offer to lay down their weapons for a week and free hostages so that a definitive peace plan can… …read more Source:...
Ukraine: volunteer soldiers rely on charitable donations of equipment
Many volunteer soldiers in Ukraine signed up to serve their country and were trained in Kyiv and initially served there. But they were suddenly… …read more Source:...
Ukraine announce week-long ceasefire in fight against separatists
Ukrainian government forces on Friday announced a week-long ceasefire in their fight against pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country, the… …read more Source:...
Moscow funeral held for Russian reporters killed in Ukraine mortar attack
A funeral was held on Friday in Moscow for the Russian journalist and his sound engineer, who both died on Tuesday in eastern Ukraine while reporting… …read more Source:...
Poroshenko peace plan would create ‘buffer zone’ between Ukraine and Russia
President Petro Poroshenko’s much-publicised peace plan for Ukraine is said to call for a 10-kilometre buffer zone to be created on the border with… …read more Source:...
Ukraine: Poroshenko poised to sign trade pact with EU
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko said he would personally sign an association agreement with the European Union on June 27. He told reporters… …read more Source:...
Fighting rages as Ukraine’s blueprint for peace rejected by pro-Russian rebels
Ukrainian government sources said its troops and pro-Russian separatists were locked in fierce fighting in the east of Ukraine. This comes after… …read more Source:...
Local truce near Donetsk allows for bodies of Ukrainian troops to be returned
Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian separatists near Donetsk are said to have arranged a local truce in order for the handover of 49 bodies – victims… …read more Source:...
Ukraine: the future under Porosheko
*Lilia Rotoloni:* With us from Kyiv our correspondent Sergio Cantone Sergio, the new President Poroshenko is gradually unveiling his plan to get… …read more Source:...
Russia’s parliament remembers TV reporter and sound engineer killed in Ukraine
Russia’s lower house of parliament, the Duma, held a minute’s silence on Wednesday to remember a journalist and sound engineer killed in a mortar… …read more Source:...
