Section: The United Kingdom
Firm uproots its staff and flees to Russia
A Ukrainian metalworking plant has relocated to Russia to escape the fighting in east Ukraine, taking nearly all of its employees… …read more Source: The...
Ukraine crisis: Pro-Russian rebels take strategic port of Novoazovsk on the Azov Sea
Pro-Russian rebel forces entered a key town in south-eastern Ukraine today after three days of heavy shelling, the town’s mayor said, capturing new territory far from most of their battles with government troops. …read more Source: The...
Russia accused of sending 100 more tanks over the border into Ukraine, just hours after Vladimir Putin vowed to end bloodshed
Claim that new convoy of military vehicles has entered Ukraine came as strategically important town of Novoazovsk was shelled by pro-Russian forces today. Kiev fears that rebels may be trying to create a a link to annexed Crimean peninsula. …read more Source: Daily...
Nordic Nato accords to boost defences
Nato will soon be able to deploy forces in Sweden and Finland as the Alliance seeks to bolster its military response to Russia’s aggression in Ukraine …read more Source: Financial...
Russian paratroopers: ‘we entered Ukraine by mistake’ video
Nine Russian servicemen say they mistakenly crossed over into Ukraine, after they were captured by Ukrainian security officials almost a week ago. The men tell reporters they were taking part in a military drill and did not know they had entered Ukrainian territory until their arrest. It cannot be confirmed whether the soldiers made statements...
Experts identify 173 MH17 victims
Forensics officers have so far identified 173 victims of flight MH17, shot down over Ukraine, but say the process is getting more difficult. …read more Source:...
Russian Paratroopers’ Mothers Plead For Release
The relatives say they save the soldiers captured in Ukraine themselves if Russia’s military leaders do not help them. …read more Source: Sky...
Stalin-era mass grave found in Ukrainian castle
Remains of up to a thousand people – many of them Polish – has been discovered in Kazimierz the Great castle in Ukraine, which was the scene of a massacre by Stalin’s forces …read more Source: The...
‘Up close and personal’ combat footage gives first-hand account of fighting in eastern Ukraine
Combat footage posted online shows members of the pro-Kiev Donbass Battalion near Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, fighting what The Telegraph’s Roland Oliphant says is ‘a very 20th Century war’ …read more Source: The...
Russia accused of new military incursions into Ukrainian territory
Putin denies discussion of ‘peace plan’, saying Ukraine is ‘not our business’; Russians demand to know are we at war?Ukraine accused Russia of new military incursions into its territory on Wednesday, a day after hours of talks between the two countries’ presidents appeared to yield little in the way of concrete...
