Section: The United Kingdom
- BBC (The United Kingdom) (1,310)
- ITV (The United Kingdom) (266)
- Reuters (The United Kingdom) (2,566)
Ukraine crisis: Poroshenko’s ceasefire lasts only hours as peace plan crumbles
Petro Poroshenko’s peace plan appeared doomed from the start: rejected by Russia and ignored by separatists in Ukraine’s east. And yesterday, after another night of fierce fighting, it lay in tatters. …read more Source: The...
Rebels defy Ukraine cease fire
Tension remains high amid reports that the separatists, though increasingly encircled, have acquired heavy weapons such as battle tanks and APCs …read more Source: Financial...
Continued separatist attacks put strain on fledgling Ukraine ceasefire
Military posts on the Russian border attacked, while Ukrainian troops also repel pro-Russian separatists from an airforce basePro-Russian separatists attacked Ukrainian posts on the border with Russia and a military base and tried to storm an airforce base overnight into Saturday, government forces said, putting a Ukrainian unilateral ceasefire...
Eastern Ukrainian separatists defy the president’s peace plan – video
Separatists in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk take an oath of allegiance on Saturday after Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko declared a week-long ceasefire. The self-proclaimed leader of the movement defies Poroshenko’s peace plan, calling it unrealistic, and says that he and his troops want a referendum to join Russia …...
Rebel attacks on Ukraine forces put ceasefire under pressure
KIEV/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – Pro-Russian separatists attacked Ukrainian posts on the border with Russia and a military base, and tried to storm an airforce base overnight into Saturday, government forces said, putting a Ukrainian unilateral ceasefire under pressure. …read more Source:...
Vladimir Putin orders Russian troops onto ‘combat alert’ as Ukraine fighting spills across border
Tensions between Moscow and Kiev continue to mount with Vladimir Putin’s latest show of force as Russia dismisses Petro Poroshenko’s “peace plan” as an ultimatum …read more Source: The...
The 20 photographs of the week
Luis Suárez, protests and Costa Rica at the World Cup in Brazil, the increasing violence in Iraq, London fashion – the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week … …read more Source: The...
Russian troops on combat alert as Ukraine ceasefire stutters
Russian president Vladimir Putin has put on combat alert military forces and airborne troops, a day after Ukraine ordered a… …read more Source: The...
Ukrainian church in Sydney desecrated with hate messages
Vandals spray swastikas and ethnic slurs condemning Ukraines president Petro PoroshenkoA Ukrainian church in Sydney has been desecrated with ethnic slurs in an attack the NSW government has labelled vicious and abhorrent.Members of the Ukrainian community woke on Saturday morning to find the St Andrew’s Ukrainian Catholic Church in Lidcombe...
US threatens ‘scalpel’ sanctions on Russia if it fails to de-escalate Ukraine crisis
West prepares to slap tougher sanctions on Russia’s economic sectors to punish it for stoking unrest …read more Source: The...
