Section: The United Kingdom
Week in pictures: 15 – 21 February
Credits: Brendan Hoffman From Ukrainian soldiers and carnival revellers to Sienna Miller and a skatepark in a church Gallery Sunday, February 22, 2015 – 6:30am Coptic ChristiansIslamic StateHelle Thorning-SchmidtSienna MillerAnna WintourUkraineAngela Merkel …read more Source: The...
Pro-Russian rebels say agree to withdraw weapons in east Ukraine
NIZHNYAYA KRYNKA, Ukraine (Reuters) – A senior pro-Russian rebel commander said separatist forces were due to begin withdrawing heavy weapons from the front line in east Ukraine on Sunday, a sign rebels may be prepared to halt their advance as part of an internationally brokered peace deal. …read more Source:...
Ukraine crisis: Costs to Russia will get ‘even higher’
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Ukraine crisis: Rebels ‘agree weapons withdrawal’
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Ukraine and pro-Russia rebels swap dozens of prisoners
Exchange of captured fighters offers some hope that the Minsk peace deal will be implemented despite continued fighting around MariupolUkrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists have exchanged dozens of prisoners, a Kiev security official confirmed on Sunday in a step towards implementing an internationally brokered peace deal....
Maidan review – close-up of history in the making
Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa lets the camera tell the story, presenting a vivid panorama of his country’s 2014 revolutionUkrainian director Sergei Loznitsa made a mark in 2012 with his bracingly spare war story In the Fog. Now he reverts to his original trade as documentary maker, recording the Kiev protests of winter 2013-14 against...
Ukraine, pro-Russia rebels swap dozens of prisoners
KIEV/DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists have exchanged dozens of prisoners in east Ukraine, a Ukrainian Security Council aide confirmed on Sunday, a step toward implementing an internationally brokered peace deal. …read more Source:...
Ukraine rebels ‘agree’ weapons dates
Rebels in eastern Ukraine agree to begin a pullout of heavy weapons, a Russian general involved in implementing a truce deal says. …read more Source:...
Ukraine Prisoner Swap Boosts Hopes For Peace
A group of Ukrainian soldiers is exchanged for pro-Russian rebels taken prisoner during fighting in the country’s east. …read more Source: Sky...
JAMES FORSYTH: If Mariupol falls, we could end up at war with Russia…
If pro-Russian separatists take Mariupol, senior British government figures tell me, the United States will start to arm the Ukrainian government directly, writes JAMES FORSYTH …read more Source: Daily...
