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Kiev, rebels agree to extra measures to ensure Ukraine cease-fire
MINSK (Reuters) – Pro-Russian separatists and representatives from Kiev and Moscow agreed on Saturday on further measures to ensure a cease-fire between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian separatists. …read more Source:...
Ukraine deal with eastern rebels
Ukraine government and pro-Russia rebels agree memorandum on peace plan for conflict in east at Minsk talks …read more Source:...
Kiev regime ‘as bad as Stalin’, warns exiled leader
The pro-Russians running Crimea harbour an “animal hatred” of the peninsula’s Tartars that is driving the worst wave of repression… …read more Source: The...
Russia critical of MH17 inquiry, wants bigger U.N. role
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Russia on Friday criticized an international investigation into the downing of a Malaysia Airlines plane in Ukraine, saying it can be transparent only with more U.N. involvement, even though the world body found the inquiry met international standards. …read more Source:...
Ukraine joins regional military unit
Defence ministers from Poland, Ukraine and Lithuania sign an act to form a new joint military unit of several thousand soldiers. …read more Source:...
Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania form joint military unit
WARSAW (Reuters) – Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania launched a joint military force on Friday that Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski said could start its first exercises in the tense region in the next year. …read more Source:...
Ukraine exits next year’s Eurovision
Ukraine announces it will not take part in the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest due to financial constraints. …read more Source:...
Obama praises ‘excellent’ Poroshenko
President Barack Obama has given his support to the visiting Petro Poroshenko, describing himself as a “strong friend” to Ukraine’s leader. …read more Source:...
Ukrainian president makes emotional plea to Congress for greater US support – video
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko appeals to the US Congress on Thursday, for lethal and non-lethal military aid and more sanctions. Poroshenko made the appeal during his visit to Washington to bolster US support for his strategy in handling Russian-backed separatists. The White House responded to the speech by issuing a factsheet listing US...
Baltic states wary as Russia takes more strident tone with neighbours
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, anxious that battle of wits with Kremlin may escalate, look to Nato for back-up pledgeThe 23rd floor of the Hotel Viru in Tallinn has been carefully preserved as a reminder of Estonia’s past. Like much else in the Soviet era, it did not officially exist even though everyone knew it was there. It was where the...
