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Ukraine deal is a humiliating climbdown for Kiev
For President Poroshenko the hardest work starts now. If the ceasefire holds, and that’s a considerable if, the deal that… …read more Source: The...
After six months of fighting and 2,600 deaths, an uneasy truce settles on east Ukraine
A peace deal has been signed between Ukraine and the rebel leadership, but government fighters tell The Telegraph they do not expect it to hold …read more Source: The...
Europe To Hit Russia With Fresh Sanctions
European leaders have agreed to hit Russia with a fresh round of sanctions despite Moscow agreeing to a ceasefire in Ukraine. …read more Source: Sky...
VIDEO: Poroshenko on ceasefire deal
The Ukrainian President, Petro Poroshenko, says he has ordered the military to declare a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
VIDEO: Heavy shelling before Ukraine ceasefire
The BBC’s Fergal Keane reports on the hours before the Ukrainian ceasefire in Mariupol. …read more Source:...
Ukraine crisis: Fighting fizzles out as ceasefire agreed – but for how long?
The Ukrainian government and separatist rebels agreed to a ceasefire amid flickering hopes of peace, but also widespread fear that the blood-letting cannot be stopped for long. …read more Source: The...
The Guardian view on the ceasefire for east Ukraine
Is the agreement reached in Minsk the beginning of peace or just of a new phase of the conflict?President Putin could not have contrived it better if he had tried. Perhaps he did. In any case, on the very day the leaders of Nato countries were writing up their communiques and final statements in Wales, it looked as if the five-month-old war in...
Ukraine crisis: Estonian security officer abducted on border
An Estonian security officer was abducted and taken into Russia at gunpoint, during an operation to stop an illegal crossing on the border today, Tallinn’s Internal Security Service said. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine ceasefire holds so far as Poroshenko orders halt at dusk
Obama is ‘hopeful’ but with other Nato leaders expresses scepticism over longer term success of the truceA tentative ceasefire is holding in eastern Ukraine tonight after Kiev agreed a truce with separatist rebels that included a pullback of weapons and the release of prisoners; it held out the best hope so far for an end to a...
Ukraine truce represents a triumph for Putin
Analysis: If the cities of Donetsk and Luhansk are left in rebel hands, then Vladimir Putin’s effort to freeze the conflict on his terms will be nearing success …read more Source: The...
