Section: South America
Eastern Ukraine Independence Leaders Win the Elections
The government of Kiev and Germany condemned the vote, while the leaders of Lugansk and Donetsk said it doesn’t violate the Minsk agreements. …read more Source:...
Eastern Ukraine Indepencence Leaders Win the Elections
The government of Kiev and Germany condemned the vote, while the leaders of Lugansk and Donetsk said it doesn´t violate the Minsk agreements. …read more Source:...
Two Soldiers Killed by Car Bomb in Eastern Ukraine
Two Ukrainian soldiers died on Sunday when a car bomb exploded at a checkpoint near the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, the National Security and Defense Council reported. …read more Source: Latin American Herald...
Pro-Russians vote for leaders in eastern Ukraine
Pro-Russian rebels voted to set up a separatist leadership in eastern Ukraine, aiming to take the war-torn region closer to Russia and defying Kiev and the West, as shelling continued across the territory. …read more Source: Buenos Aires...
Pro-Russian rebels vote for leader in war-torn eastern Ukraine
DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – Pro-Russian separatists will vote to set up a breakaway regional leadership in eastern Ukraine today aiming to take their war-torn region closer to Russia and defying Kiev and the West as the big guns still boom across the territory. The United States and European Union have denounced as illegitimate the vote […]...
Western Countries Will Not Recognize Eastern Ukraine Vote
Neither Germany, France, nor the U.S., will recognize Sunday’s elections in Ukraine as legitimate. …read more Source:...
Russian Humanitarian Aid Reaches Eastern Ukraine
A Russian convoy with humanitarian aid Friday reached the troubled eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Lugansk, under control of pro-Russian separatists, Russian news agencies reported. …read more Source: Latin American Herald...
Hollande, Merkel Call on Putin to Allow Drones on Border with Ukraine
French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to facilitate the deployment of drones to supervise the truce in the pro-Russian separatist territories in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Latin American Herald...
Ukraine, Russia, EU agree to natural gas supply deal
BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – Ukraine, Russia and the European Union signed a deal yesterday that will see Moscow resume vital supplies of gas to its ex-Soviet neighbour over the winter in return for payments funded in part by Kiev’s Western creditors. After several failed rounds of talks in recent weeks as conflict rumbles on despite a […]...
Russia Defends Legitimacy of Separatists’ Elections in East Ukraine
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has defended the legitimacy of elections called by pro-Russian rebels next Sunday in regions under their control in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Latin American Herald...
