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Ukraine’s government forces sense victory as rebels flee key city
Telegraph enters the besieged city of Slavyansk and finds a population in despair …read more Source: The...
Ukraine: bridges blown up along main roads to Donetsk
Pro-Russia fighters driven out of Slavyansk regroup in city where they declared independence as ‘Donetsk People’s Republic’Three bridges on key roads leading into the Ukrainian city of Donetsk were blown up on Monday in an apparent attempt to slow down any possible assault by government forces on the rebel-held...
Rise in Ukrainians seeking EU asylum
The EU reports a sudden rise in Ukrainian asylum seekers, though many more claims come from Syrian and Eritrean refugees. …read more Source:...
Has Vladimir Putin blinked over Ukraine?
Analysis: Threat of new sanctions and strategic challenge of occupying eastern Ukraine blunt desire for new Russian invasion …read more Source: The...
Ukraine tycoon pleads for city’s safety after rebels vow to make stand
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s richest man pleaded with the government on Monday not to bomb Donetsk, a city of a million people where hundreds of heavily armed pro-Russian rebels have vowed to make a stand after losing control of their bastion in the town of Slaviansk. …read more Source:...
Ukraine to besiege regional capitals
Ukraine is to blockade the rebel-held regional capitals of Donetsk and Luhansk, a senior official says, after recapturing four towns and cities. …read more Source:...
Fear, not ambition, is what fuels Moscow in Ukraine | Mary Dejevsky
The west has misread Russia’s motivations in Ukraine, and in doing so risks provoking PutinThe contest for eastern Ukraine may not be over, but when Ukraine’s president, Petro Poroshenko, described the recapture of Sloviansk at the weekend as of “huge symbolic importance”, he was not exaggerating. Other towns and cities...
Ukrainian forces tighten grip on Slavyansk as retreating rebels regroup
President Petro Poroshenko hails ‘beginning of crucial moment’ in fight to reclaim east as pro-Russian insurgents try to rally fighters after losing symbolic heart of resistance …read more Source: The...
Ukraine fights on as rebel cities fall
The million inhabitants of south eastern Ukraine’s biggest city were last night steeling themselves for a siege that could determine… …read more Source: The...
Ukraine’s combat dolphins: they’d like Russia to give them back
Trained to carry out military tasks, they were seized during the annexation of Crimea. Kiev wants them back but Russia has plans for the cetaceansIt wasn’t just the miles of gorgeous coastline, the plush dacha compounds of the Soviet elite and the naval bases of the Black Sea Fleet that Russia acquired when it annexed Crimea this year; it...
