Section: The United Kingdom
Under-reported conflicts seen affecting millions in 2015
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – While wars in Syria, Iraq and Ukraine make headlines in the West, around 30 other conflicts receive little press coverage, and the resulting lack of pressure for change could have serious implications for millions of people, experts say. …read more Source:...
Ukrainian forces blow up railway tracks in Luhansk – video
Ukrainian government forces destroy railway tracks in the eastern Luhansk region, which they believed were being used by pro-Russian separatists to transfer supplies. Soldiers prepared wiring near the intended target and attached explosives to the tracks, before a series of blasts were carried out destroying the transport link. The actions come...
VIDEO: Ukraine town surrounded by rebels
Government troops in the town of Debaltseve in eastern Ukraine have been almost fully encircled by pro-Russian soldiers. …read more Source:...
Russia warns West of ‘catastrophe’ over Ukraine
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s envoy to the European security watchdog OSCE urged the United States and Europe on Thursday to stop supporting “party of war” in Ukraine and warned a “catastrophe” could lie ahead, Interfax news agency reported. …read more Source:...
EU holds back on tougher Russia sanctions
Response to attacks by Moscow-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine weakened by divisions in Brussels …read more Source: Financial...
Russia and Ukraine: Understanding Putin’s plans
IN A book of interviews published when he first became Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin told a story of his early scares: a rat he had cornered had nowhere to go and jumped out at him. Having pushed himself into a corner, Mr Putin is now playing out his childhood nightmare.After several months of relative quiet in Ukraine and at home, he...
War in Ukraine: Ceasefire no more
AMID the rubble of eastern Ukraine lie traces of life before the war: a pair of broken sunglasses, a stuffed pink unicorn, a roll of undeveloped film. In Dokuchaievsk, south of Donetsk, where a rocket recently ripped into an apartment block, a lonely dog, Virma, sits by the rubble, paws shaking. Virma’s owner, like the other 5,000 people...
Donetsk, Ukraine: ‘They are trying to destroy us’ – video
Residents of Donetsk react to an artillery attack on the outskirts of the city on Thursday. The strike killed at least three civilians and wounded another two early on Thursday morning. One resident, his comments punctuated by further shells falling, says he cannot find words to describe his experience in the east Ukrainian city anymore. The...
Ukraine says five serviceman killed, 29 wounded in past 24 hours
KIEV (Reuters) – Five Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and 29 wounded in fighting with pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s eastern regions in the past 24 hours, Kiev military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said on Thursday. …read more Source:...
Greece misinterpreted over Russia sanctions: minister
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece’s new finance minister Yanis Varoufakis rejected suggestions that complaints from Athens over a European Union statement on Ukraine meant it was preparing to veto sanctions against Russia. …read more Source:...
