Section: The Guardian (The United Kingdom)
Ukraine video ‘of Russian tank in Novoazovsk’
A video posted by the Ukrainian security council purports to show a Russian tank in the eastern city of Novoazovsk. The video comes after Ukraine’s defence council said Novoazovsk and other south-eastern parts of the country have come under the control of Russian forces. Ukrainian spokesman for the defence council says the situation in the...
Ukrainian president: Russian troops have crossed border
Petro Poroshenko cancels planned trip abroad as he in effect accuses Russia of invasion Ukraine’s president has effectively accused Russia of invading his country, saying troops have been moved across the border to support separatists now fighting on two fronts in the east.”Recent Russian actions clearly demonstrate that Moscow is...
Canada’s delegation to Nato mocks Russia with Ukraine geography lesson
Twitter post labelling Russia and Not Russia pokes fun at claims that Moscows troops did not realise they had entered Ukraine, but forgets to mark KaliningradIn the latest salvo in the propaganda war over Ukraine, Canada at Nato (@CanadaNATO) has posted a tweet poking fun at Russia. In its labelling of Russia and Not Russia, the tweet refers to...
Ukrainian rebel leader: Russian soldiers are fighting among us – video
The prime minister of rebel group the Donetsk People’s Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko, says serving Russian soldiers are fighting among rebel forces in Ukraine. The separatist leader says claims of a Russian invasion in eastern Ukraine are an attempt to justify the defeats of the Ukrainian army … …read more Source: The...
Miners hold pro-Russia rally in Donetsk
Around 300 coalminers march through city centre in show of support for self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s RepublicAround 300 coalminers rallied in support of pro-Russia separatists in Donetsk on Wednesdayyesterday as rebel fighters fortified their positions in the city in anticipation of a possible attack by Ukrainian forces.The miners...
Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama meet at D-day commemorations
Informal conversation lasting 10-15 minutes between US and Russian president is first meeting since Ukraine crisis beganBarack Obama and Vladimir Putin have met for the first time since Russia’s annexation of Crimea. The informal encounter came on the sidelines of a lunch attended by world leaders to mark the 70th anniversary of the D-day...
Guns and fighters seep through Ukraine’s porous Russian border
Combatants engaged in last week’s fighting say walked into the country ‘to visit relatives’ at poorly policed checkpointsIn late April, 65 Russian men in groups of five to 10 crossed the border with Ukraine on foot, telling border guards they were going to visit relatives.It wasn’t a fond babushka who picked them up at the...
Poroshenko vows to punish rebels who shot down Ukraine helicopter
President-elect pledges to do everything to stop further deaths after attack over Slavyansk kills 14, including army generalUkraine’s president-elect, Petro Poroshenko, has vowed to punish pro-Russian rebels who shot down an army helicopter in the east of the country, killing 14 people, including a general, in one of the deadliest attacks...
Ukraine: general reportedly among dead as rebels down helicopter
Kiev escalates effort to retake Donbass region as rebel battalion seizes government building for Donetsk People’s RepublicPro-Russia rebels shot down a Ukrainian military helicopter in Slavyansk with portable surface-to-air missiles on Thursday, killing 14 people including an army general, according to the acting president, Oleksandr...
Miners hold pro-Russia rally in Donetsk
Around 300 coalminers march through city centre in show of support for self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s RepublicAround 300 coalminers rallied in support of pro-Russia separatists in Donetsk on Wednesdayyesterday as rebel fighters fortified their positions in the city in anticipation of a possible attack by Ukrainian forces.The miners...
