Section: Stabroek News (Guyana)
Merkel says tightening Ukraine-Russian border is key to peace deal
KIEV (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said yesterday 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. Merkel was visiting Kiev as a prelude to a meeting next week between the […]...
U.S. says Russia must pull convoy from Ukraine or face more sanctions
KIEV/DONETSK-IZVARINO BORDER CROSSING, Russia, (Reuters) – The United States demanded Moscow remove an aid convoy it sent into rebel-held eastern Ukraine without permission yesterday, accusing Russia of a flagrant violation of the sovereignty of its former Soviet neighbour and threatening more sanctions. Moscow, which has thousands of...
Ukraine accuses Russia of invasion after aid convoy crosses border
DONETSK-IZVARINO BORDER CROSSING, Russia, (Reuters) – Ukraine declared today that Russia had launched a “direct invasion” of its territory after Moscow sent a convoy of aid trucks across the border into eastern Ukraine where pro-Russian rebels are fighting government forces. Moscow, which has thousands of troops close on the Russian side of the...
Dozens die in Ukraine in street battles, Donetsk shelling
KIEV/DONETSK, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Heavy shelling hit residential neighbourhoods in Ukraine’s rebel stronghold of Donetsk and government forces fought street battles in other towns yesterday as they sought to crush a four-month-old separatist rebellion. The forces of the Western-backed Kiev government are steadily gaining the upper...
Dozens killed in attack on convoy, Ukraine says; rebels deny firing rocket
KIEV, (Reuters) – Dozens of people, including women and children, were killed as they fled fighting in eastern Ukraine yesterday when their convoy of buses was hit by rocket fire, military spokesmen said. Ukraine accused pro-Russian rebels of targeting the convoy, which it said was bearing white flags when it was hit near the eastern […]...
Ukraine says its troops make breakthrough in rebel stronghold
KIEV/DONETSK, Ukraine (Reu-ters) – Ukrainian forces have raised their national flag over a police station in the city of Luhansk that was for months under rebel control, Kiev said yesterday, in what could be a breakthrough in Ukraine’s efforts to crush pro-Moscow separatists. Ukrainian officials said, however, the rebels were fighting a...
Ukraine separatist leader says rebels getting tanks and reinforcements
DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukrainian rebels are receiving new armoured vehicles and fighters trained in Russia, with which they plan to launch a major counter-offensive against government forces, a separatist leader said in a video released yesterday. The four-month conflict in eastern Ukraine has reached a critical phase, with Kiev and...
Kiev says forces destroyed Russian armour inside Ukraine
KIEV, (Reuters) – Ukraine said its artillery destroyed part of a Russian armoured column that entered its territory overnight and said its forces came under shellfire from Russia yesterday in what appeared to be a major military escalation between the ex-Soviet states. Russia’s government denied its forces had crossed into Ukraine, calling...
Kiev says forces destroyed Russian armour inside Ukraine
KIEV, (Reuters) – Ukraine said its artillery destroyed part of a Russian armoured column that entered its territory overnight and said its forces came under shellfire from Russia today in what appeared to be a major military escalation between the ex-Soviet states. Russia’s government denied its forces had crossed into Ukraine. It called...
Russia sending aid convoy to Ukraine despite Western warnings of “invasion pretext”
BRUSSELS/DONETSK, (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said yesterday Russia is sending an aid convoy to eastern Ukraine despite urgent Western warnings against using humanitarian help as a pretext for an invasion. With Ukraine reporting Russia has massed 45,000 troops on its border, NATO said there was a “high probability” that...
