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NATO’s Stoltenberg urges Russia to drop support for Ukraine separatists
BERLIN (Reuters) – The head of NATO urged Russia on Wednesday to drop its support for separatists in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Ukraine bus attack kills 12 as airport battle worsens
KIEV (Reuters) – A passenger bus came under heavy fire in eastern Ukraine, killing 12 people, Ukrainian authorities said, and fighting intensified around the international airport in the city of Donetsk as separatists tried to oust government forces. …read more Source:...
Life on the frontline of the Ukraine conflict
More than half a million people have been displaced by fighting between government forces and Russia-backed separatists. Residents of Donetsk and Luhansk tell RFE/RL what life is like for those left behindLuhansk used to be poetically called ‘the city of fountains and roses’. Now it is the city of downcast faces. Sad, downcast, emaciated....
Deadly Ukraine Bus Attack Leads To Troops Vow
The fatal strike happened as the civilian vehicle passed through an army checkpoint, but pro-Russian rebels deny responsibility. …read more Source: Sky...
Shell hits a passenger bus near Donetsk in Ukraine
An attack on a passenger bus in eastern Ukraine has killed at least 11 civilians in a tragedy likely to deal the final blow to hopes that a short-lived and shaky cease-fire could take hold. …read more Source: Daily...
These traumas in France and Ukraine could lead to a European reawakening | Natalie Nougayrède
The continent has faced existential crisis twice during the past year. But something positive may yet emerge from itThe mourning is not over, and the utter awe will be widely felt for a long time. It will take time to come to grips with the magnitude of the Paris events: how such terrorist attacks could happen, and how a massive groundswell of...
Fears grow for Ukrainian pilot on hunger strike in Russian jail
Army pilot Nadia Savchenko – regarded as the most controversial prisoner of the Ukraine conflict – has been refusing food for a month. RFE/RL reportsToday marks one month since Nadia Savchenko, the Ukrainian military pilot held in Russia, began her hunger strike.Savchenko claims she was illegally transferred to Russia in July after being captured...
Maidan: watch a clip from a film documenting the 2014 Ukrainian revolution – video
Directed by Sergei Loznitsa, Maidan captures the violent clashes between police and protesters that took over Kiev’s eponymous public square from late 2013 to early 2014. In this exclusive clip a demonstrator appears to be shot by police before he is helped away by other protesters carrying makeshift shields. Maidan is out now in the US and...
Vladimir Putin to miss Holocaust memorial ceremony at Auschwitz
Russian president to miss Auschwitz anniversary event amid strained relations with Poland and other Western countries over Ukraine …read more Source: The...
Ukraine: 10 civilians die in rebel shelling of checkpoint
At least 10 people killed and 13 injured after artillery hits a passenger bus near army checkpoint in eastern Ukraine …read more Source: The...
