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Russia and Ukraine in war of words as heavy fighting continues in east
Moscow denies having 9,000 troops on the ground as Ukrainian artillery attacks claim civilian livesMoscow and Kiev again traded mutual accusations of warmongering on Wednesday, as fighting and heavy shelling continued on the ground in east Ukraine and residential areas continued to come under fire.Ukraine’s president, Petro Poroshenko, told...
Ukraine asks IMF for new bailout funds – Davos 2015 live
Rolling coverage of the first day of the World Economic Forum, including appearances by former US vice-president Al Gore, Ukraine’s president Poroshenko and Chinese premier Li Keqiang. Watch live on the WEF website hereLatest: Ukraine asks for helpPresident: Russia must withdraw troopsBlair told to accept responsibility for current...
Donetsk residents despair after days of heavy shelling in east Ukraine – video
Residents lament their damaged homes after heavy shelling in and around the east Ukrainian city of Donetsk over the past few days. A rebel spokesman says on Wednesday that in the previous 24 hours five people were killed and 30 were wounded. Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov says he does not want to see the start of a new cold war and says...
State of the Union: Russia condemns US attitude of ‘world domination’
Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov accuses Obama of taking ‘course of confrontation’ over remarks in speech aimed at RussiaRussia has hit back at Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech, saying that it showed the United States believes it is “number one” and seeks world domination.The US president said his country was upholding “the...
Ukrainian drug addicts dying due to treatment ban, says UN
United Nations envoy says those on substitution therapy in annexed Crimea could face death after Russia made it illegalAs many as 100 drug users in Crimea may have died since the peninsula was annexed by Russia, according to a top UN official, due to fact that the “substitution therapy” they were receiving from Ukrainian authorities being illegal...
Ukraine protests, 2014: Giorgio Bianchi’s prizewinning photography
When thousands of protesters battled police in Kiev’s Maidan last year, Giorgio Bianchi spent weeks capturing the clashes. What did he witness?• Beyond Kiev’s Barricades – in picturesMaidan Nezalezhnosti – or Independence Square – is the central square of the Ukrainian capital, Kiev. The scene of mass popular protest since the birth...
Ukraine protests: Beyond Kiev’s Barricades – in pictures
Photographer Giorgio Bianchi spent several weeks in Ukraine in February 2014 documenting the violent clashes in the capital between demonstrators and police. His images capturing the protest, death and grief of that time have won him the Terry O’Neill award’s top prize. His work, and that of the other entrants, can be seen at the...
Ukraine launches operation to reclaim lost ground around Donetsk airport
Russia’s deputy foreign minister said operation may lead to ‘irreversible consequences for Ukrainian statehood’Pro-Russia separatists renewed attacks on Ukrainian forces at Donetsk airport complex in the east of the country on Monday after Kiev launched a mass operation to reclaim lost ground in the region. Russia called the operation...
Ukraine PM accuses Russia of sending more troops into east of the country – video
Ukrainian prime minister, Arseny Yatsenyuk, says intelligence indicates Russia is continuing to send military personnel and equipment across the border. Yatsenyuk says the type of arms the pro-Russian rebels possess, including Buk missiles and tanks, are not available to buy on the open market and only the Russian Defence Ministry possess them....
The Guardian view on Ukraine sanctions | Editorial
The fighting and dying in Ukraine goes on but diplomacy is at a standstill. Sanctions must remain until Putin chooses peaceDonetsk airport, its runways cratered by shelling, its buildings battered and its control tower decapitated, is a modern ruin that has long ceased to function. To lose lives over it seems senseless. Yet such is its symbolism...
