Section: South America
Three deaths shake Ukraine truce
Ukraine reported the first deaths in three days in east Ukraine and President Petro Poroshenko said Russia would pose a “military threat” even if a ceasefire holds. …read more Source: Buenos Aires...
Pro-Russians Say They Have Withdrawn 250 Heavy Weapons
Pro-Russian separatist militias in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk said on Friday they had withdrawn 250 pieces of heavy weaponry from the separation line of forces in compliance with the Minsk agreements for settling the conflict in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Latin American Herald...
Deaths shake Ukraine truce; Poroshenko wary of Russian threat
Ukraine reported the first deaths in three days in east Ukraine and President Petro Poroshenko said Russia would pose a “military threat” even if a ceasefire holds. …read more Source: Buenos Aires...
Kiev Claims 3 Soldiers Were Killed Putting Cease-Fire at Risk
Ukraine makes a small prepayment for natural gas, allaying fears that it would not be available to western Europe. …read more Source:...
Russia-Ukraine Tensions Mount over Failure to Pay for Gas
The move comes as Ukraine announced it was finally pulling back heavy weaponry from the frontline in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
British blogger raises awkward questions on Russia’s role in Ukraine
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – It was not an unusual evening for war blogger Eliot Higgins. As he was rocking his infant son to sleep in his bedroom in the English city of Leicester, Higgins, who has written in-depth reports on the conflict in eastern Ukraine, was engaging in an online war of words with a pro-Kremlin […] …read more Source: Stabroek...
Russia Is Lying About Its Activities in Ukraine, Kerry Says
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has claimed that Russia is lying about not having troops in Ukraine and that the U.S. government would enforce new sanctions on Moscow in the upcoming days. …read more Source: Latin American Herald...
Putin Says War Unlikely with Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he does not believe in the possibility of war with Ukraine, describing such a conflict as “apocalyptic” in an interview broadcast Tuesday on the Russia 24 TV Channel. …read more Source: Latin American Herald...
Kiev says cannot withdraw heavy weapons as attacks persist
KIEV/DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – Kiev accused pro-Russian rebels of opening fire with rockets and artillery at villages in southeastern Ukraine yesterday, all but burying a week-old European-brokered ceasefire deal. The Ukrainian military said it could not pull weapons from the front as required under the tenuous truce, as long as its...
Two Dead in Blast During March in Ukraine
Two people died Sunday in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv in an explosion during a march to commemorate the first anniversary of the uprising that toppled former President Viktor Yanukovich, according to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry. …read more Source: Latin American Herald...
