Section: Ireland
At least six killed in Donetsk tram shelling
At least six civilians have died after shelling hit a trolleybus stop in the war-torn city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, according to Reuters. …read more Source: RTÉ...
Russia denies sending troops to Ukraine
Russia has denied Ukrainian accusation that it sent soldiers and weapons to the east of the country. …read more Source: RTÉ...
Ukraine accuses Russia over attack
Ukraine accused Russian forces of attacking its soldiers fighting pro-Kremlin insurgents in the ex-Soviet republic’s separatist east. …read more Source: RTÉ...
Separatists renew attacks on Ukrainian forces
Pro-Russian separatists have renewed attacks on Ukrainian forces at an airport complex in the east, after Kiev launched a mass operation to reclaim lost ground there that Russia called a “strategic mistake”. …read more Source: RTÉ...
Ukraine troops recapture most of Donetsk airport
Ukrainian troops have recaptured almost all the territory of Donetsk airport in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: RTÉ...
Violence in eastern Ukraine kills three civilians
Three Ukrainian civilians and a soldier are reported to have been killed in the latest wave of fighting across the country’s separatist east. …read more Source: RTÉ...
Irish medics Ukraine children heart surgery
A team of 15 doctors and nurses, funded by Irish aid agency Chernobyl Children’s International, will fly to Ukraine at the end of the month to perform life-saving cardiac surgery on 30 children born with serious heart defects. …read more Source: RTÉ...
Merkel calls on Russia over Ukraine ceasefire
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has appealed to the Russian government to use its influence on separatists in eastern Ukraine to implement a ceasefire plan agreed in Minsk in September. …read more Source: RTÉ...
Ukrainian president welcomes prisoners home
The Ukrainian president was the first to welcome home dozens of prisoners of war at an airport in Kiev today, after they were exchanged with hundreds of pro-Russian separatist prisoners. …read more Source: RTÉ...
Ukraine votes to drop neutral status
Ukraine’s parliament has taken a historic step towards NATO membership by overwhelmingly voting to revoke the nation’s neutral status. …read more Source: RTÉ...
