Section: Argentina
Crisis deepens as Ukraine says Russia moves into southeast region
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said today that Russian forces had entered his country and the military conflict was worsening after Russian-backed separatists swept into a key town in the east. …read more Source: Buenos Aires...
Global shares fall on Ukraine concerns
US stocks opened lower today after Ukraine’s president said Russian forces had been brought into his country, bringing concerns over the volatile region back into focus and overshadowing some positive US economic data. …read more Source: Buenos Aires...
Europe shares, euro, Bund yields fall
European shares, the euro currency and Bund yields fell after the Ukrainian president said Russian forces had invaded his country. …read more Source: Buenos Aires...
Breakthrough hopes dented as Ukraine accuses Russia of new incursion
Ukraine accused Russia of launching a new military incursion across its eastern border, as hopes quickly faded that Tuesday’s talks between their two presidents might mark a turning point in a five-month-old crisis. …read more Source: Buenos Aires...
Captured Russian soldiers video clouds Putin-Poroshenko first meeting
Ukraine released a video of captured Russian soldiers today, only hours before the two countrie’s presidents were due to meet for the first time, sharply escalating a dispute over Moscow’s alleged backing for separatist rebels in the east of the former Soviet republic. …read more Source: Buenos Aires...
Captured Russian soldiers video clouds Putin-Poroshenko first talks
Ukraine released a video of captured Russian soldiers today, only hours before the two countrie’s presidents were due to meet for the first time, sharply escalating a dispute over Moscow’s alleged backing for separatist rebels in the east of the former Soviet republic. …read more Source: Buenos Aires...
Ukraine accuses Russian forces of opening new front in separatist war
The Ukrainian military said today a group of Russian forces, in the guise of separatist rebels, had crossed into south-east Ukraine with ten tanks and two armored infantry vehicles, aiming to open a new front in the separatist war. …read more Source: Buenos Aires...
Defiant Ukraine celebrates national day as war rumbles on
Armoured vehicles and soldiers paraded in Kiev in a defiant national day display of military power that President Petro Poroskenko said was being mobilised for an historic war of independence from Russia. …read more Source: Buenos Aires...
Ukraine’s independence: cutting the post-Soviet umbilical chord
By Michael Soltys In the eyes of Ukrainian Ambassador Yurii Diudin, it has taken the 23 years of the independence being marked today for his country to finally sever the post-Soviet umbilical chord but the process has been irreversibly consolidated by the events of the last 10 months. …read more...
In Kiev, Merkel says tightening border control is key to peace deal
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said the standoff over Ukraine could be solved but only if control was tightened over the Ukraine-Russia border across which, the West alleges, Russia has been funnelling arms to help a separatist rebellion. …read more Source: Buenos Aires...
