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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...
Ukraine fighter plane shot down by pro-Russian rebels as government forces advance
A Ukrainian fighter plane has been shot down by pro-Russian rebels over eastern Ukraine as government forces entered deep inside the rebel-controlled city of Luhansk, according to the Ukrainian military. …read more Source: The...
Russia and Ukraine ministers to meet in Berlin for ceasefire talks
Pavlo Klimkin and Sergey Lavrov will be joined by German counterparts in latest attempt to negotiate an end to fightingRussian and Ukrainian foreign ministers are meeting in Berlin for the first time in weeks for talks aimed at ending the conflict in eastern Ukraine, where there was heavy fighting over the weekend for control of the city of...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
