Section: The Guardian (The United Kingdom)
Life in a war zone Ukraine
How do you go about your daily life while under constant threat of bombardment? We speak to families in Slavyansk to find outIt isn’t yet dusk, but the sky to the south is darkening with an approaching storm as Denis Dragusevich and Zhenya Kucheryavaya play with their three small boys in a dusty apartment-building playground in Slavyansk....
Belarus vows to build military might at independence parade – video
Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko vows to build up military might to defend the state from external ‘interference’. He cites the Middle East and neighbouring Ukraine as examples where ethnic tensions and instability have spread as a result. The announcement was made at a military parade on Thursday to mark the Belarussian...
The long shadow of Chernobyl
A new book from National Geographic photographer Gerd Ludwig documents the worst nuclear disaster in history with sobering but stunning images. Ludwig visited Chernobyl nine times in 20 years to tell the stories of the lives of the victims, the exclusion zone and the abandoned city of Pripyat. The book also contains an essay from former president...
Ukraine governor attacked by angry crowd in Khmelnytskyi – video
The governor of the central Ukrainian city of Khmelnytskyi is attacked by an angry crowd of local residents. Footage of the attack shows Leonid Prus hit repeatedly over the head by a woman and lifted up by the unhappy crowd. Prus later attempts to escape out of a window but is again confronted by the crowd outside … …read more Source:...
Absence of US ambassador to Russia punishes Washington, not Moscow
The US has not had an ambassador in Moscow since the Ukraine crisis began. Now a new candidate has been proposed, but will he be accepted, asks Dmitri Trenin The absence of a United States ambassador in Moscow ever since the beginning of the Ukraine crisis has been striking. This never happened during the Cold War, when ambassadors were the prime...
Ukraine retakes border crossing from rebels as Poroshenko goes on attack
Ukrainian troops hit pro-Russian rebel positions with artillery and air strikes after president declared end to the ceasefireKiev forces claimed their first victories in Petro Poroshenko’s renewed offensive against pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, taking back a key border crossing and three villages.Ukrainian troops hit...
Russian journalists injured in Ukraine
Reporter Denis Kulaga and cameraman Vadim Yudin wounded by mortar fire in Lugansk area, day after colleague shot deadTwo journalists from the Russian television channel Ren TV have been injured by mortar fire in eastern Ukraine, a day after one of their colleagues was shot and killed there.Reporter Denis Kulaga and cameraman Vadim Yudin were...
Ukraine fighting intensifies as Poroshenko ends ceasefire
President in Kiev vows to retake land from pro-Russian separatists with clashes in Donetsk and Lugansk regionsFighting has intensified in eastern Ukraine after the president, Petro Poroshenko, announced an end to a ceasefire and said he was ordering his forces to attack pro-Russian separatists.In a televised address on Monday night, Poroshenko...
Ukraine president declares ceasefire over and vows to attack rebels
Ceasefire had intended to give pro-Russian separatists the chance to disarm, but the rebels did not put down their weaponsUkrainian president Petro Poroshenko says he is halting a unilateral ceasefire in the conflict with pro-Russian separatists and says Ukrainian forces will go on the offensive against the rebels.A statement from Poroshenko on...
Russian navy in Saint-Nazaire to train on new ships amid Ukraine tensions
Pro-Ukrainian supporters call on France to cancel 1.2bn deal to deliver warships with amphibious assault capabilities to RussiaThe French port of Saint-Nazaire woke to find the Russian naval ensign a blue cross flying offshore on Monday and a new row over France’s sale of state-of-the-art warships to Moscow.While the president, François...
