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MH17: investigators start recovery despite fighting nearby – video
International experts start recovery work at the wreckage site of the downed Malaysian airliner in east Ukraine on Friday, despite clashes nearby between government forces and pro-Russian separatists. For days the route has been too dangerous to travel because of heavy fighting, which frustrated efforts to recover all the victims’ remains...
Tide turns as Ukraine forces advance
Government forces have made big advances since Ukrainian servicemen, stopped by an angry crowd near Slavyansk in April, abandoned their APCs …read more Source: Financial...
Volunteer fighters with seaside residence
The Azov Battalion is one of a number of volunteer groups or battalions which have sprung up to fight alongside the regular Ukrainian army …read more Source: Financial...
Experts start work at Ukraine crash site despite new fighting
KIEV (Reuters) – International experts started recovery work at the wreckage site of a downed Malaysian airliner in east Ukraine on Friday despite clashes nearby between government forces and pro-Russian rebels. …read more Source:...
Ukraine leaks Stalin’s ‘KGB secrets’
The chief archivist in Kiev says the files now have only “historical value”. …read more Source:...
North Atlantic Drilling signs Rosneft deal
A $4.25bn deal between the world’s largest offshore drilling group and Rosneft appears unaffected by the latest EU sanctions on Russia …read more Source: Financial...
A century on, the first world war is still being played out | Timothy Garton Ash
From Ukraine to Syria these wars are a legacy of the 1914 clash of empires and the patchwork territories left behindThere is war in Europe. No, Im not using the historic present tense to evoke August 1914 (and rile John Humphrys). Im talking about August 2014. What is happening in eastern Ukraine is war ambiguous war, as a British parliamentary...
Ukraine: Separatist Attack ‘Leaves 14 Dead’
Pro-Russian rebels launch an offensive some 15 miles from the crash site of MH17, where investigators have now arrived. …read more Source: Sky...
Western sanctions do not help to de-escalate Ukraine crisis: Russian official
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Western sanctions against Russia are not helping to de-escalate the situation in Ukraine, state-run Itar-Tass news agency quoted Russia’s envoy to the European Union as saying on Friday. …read more Source:...
Rebels ambush convoy in east Ukraine
Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine kill at least 10 soldiers in an ambush near where flight MH17 crashed, as forensic experts get to work. …read more Source:...
