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Pro-Russian rebels vote for leader in war-torn eastern Ukraine
DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – Pro-Russian separatists will vote to set up a breakaway regional leadership in eastern Ukraine on Sunday aiming to take their war-torn region closer to Russia and defying Kiev and the West as the big guns still boom across the territory. …read more Source:...
Six Ukraine soldiers die in eastern clashes with rebels: military
KIEV/DONETSK (Reuters) – Six Ukrainian soldiers were killed in the past 24 hours, a military spokesman said on Saturday, as a fragile ceasefire in the east was tested by heavy mortar fire in the separatist stronghold of Donetsk ahead of a rebel election. …read more Source:...
Why are Ukraine separatist elections controversial?
Pro-Russian rebel elections seen as truce violation …read more Source:...
MH17: more human remains found at crash site, says Dutch PM
Mark Rutte says lull in fighting allowed investigators to re-enter eastern Ukraine site where Malaysia Airlines plane came down A Dutch team took advantage of a pause in fighting between government forces and pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine on Friday to recover human remains from the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash site, the Dutch prime...
Russian gas supplies to Ukraine could resume next week
Moscow say that delivery would depend on how soon debts are paid and pre-payments madeRussia could resume natural gas deliveries to Ukraine as soon as next week if Kiev pays $2.2 billion in debt and pre-payments, gas exporter Gazprom said on Friday, under a deal that also safeguards winter deliveries to Europe.Moscow, Kiev and the European Union...
West condemns rebel elections in eastern Ukraine
Germany and France call on Vladimir Putin not to recognise elections being held by pro-Russian seperatists on Sunday in areas of Luhansk and Donetsk …read more Source: The...
Russia could resume gas supply to Ukraine by next week
Deliveries to start once Kiev pays $2.2bn in debt and pre-payments after agreement reached by Moscow, Kiev and EURussia could resume natural gas deliveries to Ukraine as soon as next week if Kiev pays $2.2bn (£1.4bn) in debt and pre-payments, gas exporter Gazprom said on Friday, under a deal that also safeguards winter deliveries to...
Dutch team recovers human remains from MH17 crash site: PM
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – A Dutch team took advantage of a pause in fighting between government forces and pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine on Friday to recover human remains from the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash site, the Dutch prime minister said. …read more Source:...
Rebels in Ukraine ‘post video of people’s court sentencing man to death’
Footage appears to show alleged rapist’s punishment being decided by a show of hands in an unofficial public trial …read more Source: The...
Ukraine’s Poroshenko backs Yatseniuk for new term as prime minister
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko threw his support behind Arseny Yatseniuk for a new term as prime minister on Friday, ending speculation that he would seek to try to bring in his own candidate as head of a new pro-Europe, reformist government. …read more Source:...
