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Huge explosion in Ukraine as mortar shell hits gas pipeline – video
A mortar which hit a gas pipeline in eastern Ukraine causes a major explosion. TV crews film a huge fire and clouds of smoke nine miles from the besieged town of Debaltseve, despite the ceasefire agreed last week. Fighting has eased in many areas since the ceasefire came into force on Sunday, but Ukrainian government troops and Russia-backed...
How digital detectives say they proved Ukraine attacks came from Russia
A group of investigative journalists who specialise in image analysis say they have proved a series of key artillery strikes on Ukrainian forces in summer 2014 came from inside Russia. We focus on two attacks to show how the Bellingcat team examined satellite imagery and social media videos to support their theory … …read more Source:...
Footage shows TV crew escaping explosion amid mortar fire in Ukraine
Dramatic footage shows the moment a TV crew were forced to flee a huge explosion after a gas pipeline was hit by mortar fire in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
How blogger Brown Moses used open-source information to analyse missile attacks on Ukraine – video
Blogger and citizen journalist Eliot Higgins – aka Brown Moses – explains how he used open-source information to determine cross-border artillery attacks that appear to be being fired from Russian territory into Ukraine. His team used satellite imagery on Google Earth and crater analysis techniques … …read more Source: The...
Remembering the shelling: ‘We saw a glow, they were burned alive’
Ukrainian soldiers recall attacks by Grad launchers and heavy artillery – which they are convinced came from within RussiaUkrainian soldiers remember the onslaught that rained down on their positions from the middle of July 2014 onwards. Time and again they came under fire from Grad missiles and artillery shells. Now it appears that at least some...
Russia shelled Ukrainians from within its own territory, says study
Satellite images, digital detective work and social media provide strongest evidence yet of Russian crossborder shelling, according to investigationWhen Ukrainian forces came under withering attack in the east of the country last summer, soldiers were surprised as much as scared by the ferocity of the attack. The separatists they were up against...
Ukrainian separatists claim to have captured rail hub despite ceasefire
Pro-Russian forces claim to have seized Debaltseve, after days of fighting in defiance of a ceasefire deadline to remove weapons from the front lineUkrainian separatists claimed on Tuesday they had captured the railway hub of Debaltseve – the key area where the shaky ceasefire negotiated last week had failed to hold – after a day of heavy...
Ukraine crisis: Fighting rages at Debaltseve
Fierce fighting erupts in the key town of Debaltseve in eastern Ukraine, despite a supposed ceasefire coming into effect last week. International observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) have been denied access to the town, which is a key transport hub in the region, by the rebels. Both sides had been...
Rebels claim to capture key Ukraine rail hub of Debaltseve
Fighting breaks out for first time inside flashpoint town in east Ukraine, say officials, with rebels claiming victory in harsh blow to a fragile ceasefire …read more Source: The...
Russia agrees to allow monitors to observe Ukraine ceasefire
Petro Poroshenko, Vladimir Putin and Angela Merkel agree on “concrete measures” to allow the OSCE to monitor the ceasefire in Ukraine …read more Source: The...
