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Fighting rages despite bid to revive Ukraine truce after government defeat
ARTEMIVSK/VUHLEHIRSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – Fighting raged in eastern Ukraine on Thursday despite European efforts to resurrect a still-born ceasefire, a day after pro-Russian separatists who spurned the truce forced thousands of government troops out of a strategic town. …read more Source:...
Pro-Russian rebels ‘continued to fire at retreating Ukrainian forces’
Pro-Russian rebels repeatedly launched missiles and grenades at Ukrainian soldiers as they retreated from the key strategic town of Debaltseve, according to reports from the frontline. …read more Source: The...
Europe leaders denounce Ukraine ceasefire violation
Leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany hold four-way talks to try and salvage ceasefire agreement …read more Source: The...
Pro-Russian rebels continued to fire at retreating Ukrainian forces: Reports
Pro-Russian rebels repeatedly launched missiles and grenades at Ukrainian soldiers as they retreated from the key strategic town of Debaltseve, according to reports from the frontline. …read more Source: The...
Russia is danger to stability of Baltic states, warns UK defence secretary
Russia poses a “real and present danger” to the stability of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, the UK defence secretary has warned. Michael Fallon said that Russia may attempt to test Nato’s resolve in the Baltic states with the use of undercover military forces and propaganda to inflame ethnic tensions as he has done to great success in...
Russia is a threat to other Baltic states, warns Defence Secretary Michael Fallon
RUSSIA is a threat to other Baltic states following the Ukraine conflict, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon warned today. …read more Source:...
Maidan – video review
The film team review In the Fog director Sergei Loznitsa’s documentary about the 2014 protests in Kiev. Filmed in a series of static shots, Maidan attempts to recreate the sensation of protesting with the people of Ukraine. Maidan is released in UK cinemas this Friday … …read more Source: The...
Rebels launch mortar attacks near Ukraine coastal town
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Leaders insist on respect for Minsk accord as Ukraine ceasefire crumbles
Putin, Poroshenko, Merkel and Hollande agree by telephone that measures agreed last week should be implemented ‘strictly and in their entirety’The leaders of France, Germany, Ukraine and Russia agreed by telephone on Thursday to make a new push to impose an accord seeking to establish a ceasefire in Ukraine, President François...
Leaders call for Ukraine ceasefire agreement to be upheld
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