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Ukrainian casualties reported before peace talks
KIEV (Reuters) – Four Ukrainian servicemen have been killed and 15 wounded in fighting with pro-Russian rebels in the past 24 hours just before talks on a ceasefire were due to start, the Ukrainian military said on Monday. …read more Source:...
WATCH: ‘Useless’ British armoured vehicle sent to Ukraine crashes through road signs
A BRITISH armoured vehicle given to the Ukrainian army has been branded a joke after a video emerged of it crashing through road signs. …read more Source:...
Backyard missiles and meth: Ukraine, before the revolution – in pictures
Though Miron Zownir’s photographs of overcrowded morgues, homeless teens and chancers in animal costumes look like tragic scenes of a nation torn apart by violence, they are anything but …What’s the Pink Panther doing in Ukraine? How Miron Zownir went in search of his Ukrainian roots… …read more Source: The...
What’s the Pink Panther doing in Ukraine?
Missiles in the street, beggars dressed as cartoon characters chasing tourists, bodies rotting in bloody morgues … photographer Miron Zownir went in search of his Ukrainian roots – and uncovered a country in despairBackyard missiles and meth: Ukraine, before the revolution – in picturesOn his first visit to the Ukrainian city of Poltava in the...
Military aircraft interceptions have surged: Top Gun … but for real
In Europe, over the Aegean and in the Asia-Pacific region, interceptions are ‘almost routine’ but the sheer volume of incidents risks escalationWorld powers are reporting surges in airspace violations and instances where aircraft are scrambled to intercept foreign jets, amid a sharp rise in geopolitical tensions in Europe and Asia.Nato...
Putin promises protection for ancient Crimea ruins
Historians fear Sevastopol authorities will damage Unesco world heritage site Chersonesus, an ancient Greek city, to attract orthodox believers …read more Source: The...
Rightwing militia puts Kiev in its sights
Leader of the volunteer battalion Right Sector turns on Ukraine’s president …read more Source: Financial...
Ukraine rebels ‘building dirty bomb’ with Russian scientists
Rebels in Ukraine are working to develop a radioactive dirty bomb with the help of Russian nuclear scientists, according to… …read more Source: The...
MH370: Why investigators are so confident that the debris is that of the missing plane
The first crash-landed at Heathrow in 2008 with no loss of life; the second hit a sea wall at San Francisco during a botched landing in 2013, killing three passengers; and all 298 died when the third was shot down over eastern Ukraine a year ago. Those are the only three confirmed cases of Boeing 777s that have been destroyed. In each case the...
Ukraine may grant autonomy to pro-Russian separatists in a bid for peace
Country’s highest court offers limited self-rule for three years to separatist-controlled areas of Donetsk and Luhansk in tentative move to fulfilling Minsk agreement …read more Source: The...
