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Grenade explodes outside Ukraine parliament as riot police clash with protesters
The blast, outside the parliament buildings in Kiev, Ukraine, knocked officers off their feet and witnesses reported seeing pools of blood on the ground near some of the wounded. …read more Source: Daily...
Kiev protests against separatists turn violent as grenade thrown at police
Police have been injured during a demonstration in the Ukrainian capital …read more Source: The...
Blast at Kiev parliament as Ukraine MPs back more autonomy for rebels
Several police officers and members of Ukrainian national guard injured after grenade thrown from nationalist protesters demonstrating outsideSeveral police officers and members of the Ukrainian national guard were injured after a grenade was thrown from a crowd of nationalist protesters demonstrating outside parliament in Kiev against a draft...
Ukraine’s parliament backs draft law giving east special status
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s parliament on Monday voted for constitutional changes to give its eastern regions a special status that it hopes will blunt their separatist drive, but divisions among pro-Western lawmakers suggested they will have a rougher ride to become law. …read more Source:...
Kiev clashes over Ukraine autonomy deal
Clashes erupt between protesters and police in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, as MPs backed an autonomy deal for the disputed east of the country. …read more Source:...
Two U.S. F-22 fighter jets arrive in Poland as part of European training mission
WARSAW (Reuters) – Two advanced U.S. F-22 fighter jets arrived in Poland on Monday for a one-day working visit, the Polish army said, a part of Washington’s efforts to reassure allies made uneasy by Russian actions in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
The Guardian view on the latest Ukraine ceasefire call: why this could be the one that works | Editorial
It is too soon to be confident but this time the economic and political pressures may be mounting on Vladimir Putin to make agreements that will stickThe prospects are not good that the new international call for a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine will be heeded any more rigorously than its predecessors were. Yet in the continuing 16-month war on...
Ukraine’s forces held up by red tape
“Of course we want to listen to the radio and hear the news from Kiev,” said Bardan, a Ukrainian infantryman based in a devastated neighbourhood on the northern fringes of Donetsk. “Out here, though, we just tend to pick up stations from Russia and Novorossiya Rock FM.” …read more Source: The...
Hollande, Merkel, Putin back ceasefire plan for eastern Ukraine: France
PARIS (Reuters) – France, Germany and Russia back plans for a complete ceasefire in eastern Ukraine from Sept. 1, the French presidency said after their respective leaders spoke by telephone on Saturday. …read more Source:...
Russia says Ukrainian hostage freed in Afghanistan
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Dmytro Bilyi, a Ukrainian who was being held prisoner by Afghan militants, has been freed with Russian help, the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement on Saturday. …read more Source:...
