Section: South America
Ukraine accuses Russia of bringing in troops
KIEV, (Reuters) – Ukraine accused Russia today of bringing troops into the southeast of the country in support of pro-Moscow separatist rebels. Ukraine’s security and defence council said the border town of Novoazovsk and other parts of Ukraine’s south-east had fallen under the control of Russian forces who together with rebels were...
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...
Poroshenko to seek ceasefire after “very tough” talks with Putin
MINSK, (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko promised after late-night negotiations with Russia’s Vladimir Putin to work on an urgent ceasefire plan to defuse the separatist conflict in the east of his former Soviet republic. The first talks between the two leaders since June were described by Putin as positive, but he said it...
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...
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 […]...
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...
