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Russian and Ukrainian ministers hold talks as conflict escalates
Fighting is continuing across eastern Ukraine as the foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine meet in Berlin today to try… …read more Source: The...
Ukraine says its troops make breakthrough in rebel stronghold
KIEV/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukrainian forces have raised their national flag over a police station in the city of Luhansk which was for months under rebel control, Kiev said on Sunday, in what could be a breakthrough in Ukraine’s efforts to crush pro-Moscow separatists. …read more Source:...
VIDEO: Russia aid convoy at Ukraine border
Lorries from a Russian convoy carrying aid to eastern Ukraine have reached a border post controlled by separatists. …read more Source:...
Russian aid convoy awaits Ukraine border clearance
A Russian aid convoy bound for eastern Ukraine is held at the border as it awaits clearance to bring supplies to civilians …read more Source: The...
David Bezmozgis: Ukraine is a broken country that’s what attracted me to writing about it
The author’s new novel is set in the Crimea and its main character is an Israeli politician. How could it be more topical?David Bezmozgis was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1973 and moved to Toronto with his parents seven years later. He is the author of a novel, The Free World, and Natasha and Other Stories, which was shortlisted for the...
Russian Missile Launchers ‘Cross Into Ukraine’
A Ukrainian jet is shot down amid heavy fighting between government forces and pro-Moscow separatists in Luhansk. …read more Source: Sky...
Ukraine Diaries: Dispatches from Kiev review an invaluable guide to the present crisis
Andrey Kurkov, the author of Death and the Penguin, is ideally placed to guide us through the Ukrainian revolution as it unfoldsUkraine, previously a place most foreigners happily ignored, has forced itself on the world’s attention this year.The fact that Vladimir Putin stole Crimea would have been enough on its own. It was the first...
Pro-Russian separatists shoot down Ukrainian fighter jet
Plane shot down over Luhansk region, rebels say, as foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France meet in Berlin to discuss crisis …read more Source: The...
Ukrainian fighter plane shot down by pro-Russia rebels
Foreign ministers of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France due to meet in Berlin, and 10 civilians killed in shelling in DonetskPro-Russia rebels shot down a Ukrainian fighter jet on Sunday, before Kiev and Moscow’s top diplomats were due to hold urgent talks to defuse tensions over fighting in the east of the ex-Soviet nation.Ukraine’s...
Ukrainian fighter jet shot down
Ukraine’s military says a fighter jet was shot down near the rebel city of Luhansk, as part of a stalled Russian aid convoy heads for the border. …read more Source:...
