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Nine killed as rebels shoot down Ukrainian helicopter
Jun24

Nine killed as rebels shoot down Ukrainian helicopter

Pro-Russian rebels shot down a Ukrainian military helicopter yesterday, killing nine troops and exposing the fragility of a ceasefire despite… …read more Source: The...

Inside Ukraine’s war-torn towns
Jun24

Inside Ukraine’s war-torn towns

Homes destroyed, streets deserted – Daniel Sandford finds grim defiance and misery in east …read more Source:...

Ukraine army helicopter ‘shot down by pro-Russian rebels’ less than 24 hours after ceasefire
Jun24

Ukraine army helicopter ‘shot down by pro-Russian rebels’ less than 24 hours after ceasefire

Nine Ukrainian servicemen reported killed as pro-Russian insurgents reportedly ignore ceasefire and shoot down Ukraine army helicopter in east of country …read more Source: The...

Western Russia aids Ukraine’s Cossacks
Jun24

Western Russia aids Ukraine’s Cossacks

What Russian volunteers are doing for separatists in eastern Ukraine …read more Source:...

Vladimir Putin revokes Russia’s mandate for use of military force in Ukraine
Jun24

Vladimir Putin revokes Russia’s mandate for use of military force in Ukraine

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko welcomes move to scrap controversial law authorising Russian use of force in country as a ‘first step’ towards peace …read more Source: The...

Russia’s Putin renounces right to send troops to Ukraine: Kremlin
Jun24

Russia’s Putin renounces right to send troops to Ukraine: Kremlin

MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin asked Russia’s upper house on Tuesday to revoke the right it had granted him to order a military intervention in Ukraine in defence of Russian-speakers there, the Kremlin said in a statement. …read more Source:...

Ukraine crisis: Putin removes threat of military intervention after ceasefire
Jun24

Ukraine crisis: Putin removes threat of military intervention after ceasefire

Boost to truce hopes after president asks parliament to revoke ruling permitting Russian troops on Ukrainian territoryVladimir Putin has formally taken Russian military intervention in eastern Ukraine off the table as separatist leaders agreed to a ceasefire proposed by Kiev in the region. … …read more Source: The...

Russia’s South Stream gas route progresses
Jun24

Russia’s South Stream gas route progresses

Bloomberg’s Ryan Chilcote reports on the controversial new South Stream pipeline which will bring Russian gas to Austria, bypassing Ukraine …read more Source: The...

Putin moves to lift Ukraine troop mandate
Jun24

Putin moves to lift Ukraine troop mandate

Observers say the move is the clearest political signal yet that Vladimir Putin is seeking a political solution to the crisis in Ukraine …read more Source: Financial...

Ukraine crisis: Putin ‘revokes right of military intervention’ in troubled east
Jun24

Ukraine crisis: Putin ‘revokes right of military intervention’ in troubled east

Vladimir Putin has asked Moscow’s upper parliament to revoke a resolution sanctioning the use of military force in Ukraine, the Kremlin has announced. …read more Source: The...