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VIDEO: Ukraine refugees arrive in Russia
Refugees from south-western Ukraine have been arriving in the Russian city of Ulyanovsk. …read more Source:...
Ukraine crisis: Army will block ‘Putin humanitarian aid convoy’ at Kharkiv border
A Russian humanitarian aid convoy will not be allowed to enter Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry has warned. …read more Source: The...
EU’s Ashton ready to call special meeting on Iraq, Ukraine
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton is ready to call a special foreign ministers’ meeting as early as this week and is talking to EU governments about it, a spokesman said on Wednesday. …read more Source:...
On Russia’s border with Ukraine, fighters and military gear move freely
VERKHNYAYA OREKHOVKA Russia (Reuters) – In Russia’s southwestern Rostov region bordering Ukraine, a military-style training camp, a broken down border fence and tracks consistent with armoured personnel carriers or tanks add to a body of evidence of Russian involvement in Ukraine’s war. …read more Source:...
War between Russia and Ukraine could be imminent
It would be little surprise if, as is feared in Kiev, the aid convoy dispatched today by Russia in the direction of eastern Ukraine contained more than just food and basic supplies. Some 280 trucks set off, apparently from a military base, without the full assent of the International Committee of the Red Cross, under whose auspices the mission...
Russian aid convoy heads for Ukraine amid doubts over lorries’ contents
Kiev says it will turn back shipment which Moscow describes as humanitarian but which west says could be prelude to invasionA huge Russian convoy allegedly carrying humanitarian aid was on its way to war-torn eastern Ukraine on Tuesday night, in a operation which the west fears may be a prelude to a Russian invasion but which Moscow insists is...
Russia and Ukraine set for tense stand off over ‘aid’ convoy
Ukraine threatens to close border to an aid convoy that it fears could be a “Trojan Horse” for Russian intervention in the civil war …read more Source: The...
Russian convoy stokes Ukraine fears
A convoy of 280 lorries said to be carrying aid and Russian troops could provoke conflict as it heads towards the Ukrainian border …read more Source: Financial...
Ukraine may block 300-vehicle Russian ‘humanitarian’ convoy
Ukraine said it would prevent the vehicles passing through a 60-mile stretch of rebel-held border because they had not been certified by the Red Cross and had provided no information on exactly what they are carrying or where they are heading. …read more Source: Daily...
Thousands flee eastern Ukraine due to ‘critical’ situation in Luhansk
City’s population has almost halved since ‘anti-terrorist operation’ began in early AprilThousands of families have been forced to flee the worsening conflict in eastern Ukraine, where the situation in Luhansk and other besieged areas is now “critical”, said aid agencies and local officials.The International...
