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Fighting rages at airport, new Ukraine peace talks elusive
KIEV (Reuters) – Fighting raged at the international airport in the big Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Friday as a fresh attempt to resume peace talks to end the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine failed. …read more Source:...
At least 11 killed as fierce fighting breaks out in east Ukraine, say officials
The new round of violence began on Thursday around Donetsk airport, with a civilian among the fatalitiesFierce fighting in east Ukraine has killed at least 11 people over the past 24 hours, officials said on Friday.A new round of violence threatened a resumption of last summer’s all-out conflict between government forces and pro-Russian...
Russia could soon run multiple Ukraine-sized operations: U.S. general
WIESBADEN, Germany (Reuters) – Russia is working to develop within a few years the capability to threaten several neighbors at once on the scale of its present operation in Ukraine, a senior American general said. …read more Source:...
Six Ukrainian soldiers killed, fighting rages at airport: Kiev officials
KIEV (Reuters) – Six Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in attacks by separatists in the past 24 hours, the Kiev military said on Friday as fighting raged at the international airport in the big eastern city of Donetsk. …read more Source:...
Russia regrets Ukraine’s move to rotate troops in east
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian is concerned that a rotation by Kiev of frontline forces in eastern Ukraine could undermine peace efforts, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday. …read more Source:...
Ukraine is fulfilling all its financial obligations: Finance Minister
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine is fulfilling all its external financial obligations despite an “information campaign” about its inability to service its debt, Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko said on Friday. …read more Source:...
Remembering Vladimir Putin as a boy
Mina Moiseevna Yuditskaya, Putin’s former German teacher, recounts her experiences with the most powerful man in Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin. Photo: Ronald Martinez/Getty Images In the late 1960s, Mina Moiseevna Yuditskaya was working at a secondary school in Leningrad, now St Petersburg, where she taught a “sporty”,...
Ukraine crisis: Residents flee savagery of the battle for Donetsk’s airport
Like the populations of other shelled districts in Ukraine’s war-torn east, the residents that can, have left Oktyabrsky. The vulnerable and least mobile have remained. …read more Source: The...
Russia-backed separatists seize Donetsk airport in Ukraine
The fall of the bombed-out airport, the site of battles since May 2014, suggests a peace agreement between rebels and Ukraine government still far offRussian-backed separatists announced that they have captured the shattered remains of the Donetsk airport terminal in eastern Ukraine and plan to claw back more territory, further dashing hopes for...
Fight Russian ‘propaganda’, say MEPs
Euro MPs urge the EU to counter Russian “propaganda” and condemn Russia’s “aggressive and expansionist policy” towards Ukraine. …read more Source:...
