Section: CBC (Canada)
First confirmed heavy weapons pullback seen in eastern Ukraine
Separatist fighters in east Ukraine moved rocket launchers to a location 70 kilometres back from the front line with government troops Friday in the first confirmed compliance with a cease-fire agreed earlier this month. …read more Source:...
Russian-backed rebels in Ukraine may keep Russian gas supply
Russia’s Kremlin-controlled Gazprom says it will exempt gas supplies to rebel-held regions from its main contract with Ukrainian Naftogaz, days before Kyiv uses up gas volumes it has already paid for. …read more Source:...
Ukraine’s Russian gas supply faces cut-off, but rebels may be exempt
Russian natural gas producer Gazprom says it’s willing to compromise with Ukraine over gas supplies to rebel-held regions in its east, but it remains ready to cut off supplies to Ukraine by the end of the week, barring further payments. …read more Source:...
Ceasefire appears to take hold in Ukraine
A long-awaited truce appeared to be taking hold at last in east Ukraine on Wednesday as pro-Russian rebels pulled artillery from the front, but the news did nothing to halt a currency collapse that forced the central bank to ban most trading. …read more Source:...
Russian-backed rebels say Ukraine weapons pullback starts
Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine said Tuesday they have begun a large-scale pullback of heavy weapons in line with an international peace plan that aims to form a wide buffer zone between separatists’ and Ukrainian forces’ artillery. …read more Source:...
Ukraine crisis: 4 arrested after blast kills 2 at Yanukovych ouster anniversary march
Ukraine officials say they have arrest four people ater an explosion killed two people at a memorial rally in an eastern city far from the front line. …read more Source:...
Ukraine crisis: Blast kills 2 at Yanukovych ouster anniversary march
Two people were killed and about a dozen injured in a bomb explosion at a march Sunday in Ukraine’s second-largest city marking the first anniversary of the ouster of president Viktor Yanukovych, the country’s interior ministry said. …read more Source:...
Ukraine crisis: Rebels agree to begin withdrawing heavy weapons
A senior separatist commander says pro-Russian rebels would begin a two-week process of withdrawing heavy weapons from the frontline in east Ukraine today. …read more Source:...
First prisoner swap between Ukrainian military and pro-Russian rebels completed
Ukrainian military and separatist representatives exchanged dozens of prisoners under cover of darkness at a remote frontline location Saturday evening, kicking off a process intended to usher in peace to the conflict-ridden east. …read more Source:...
Ukraine preparing for ‘full-scale war,’ says former envoy to Canada
Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister says he’s is preparing for “full-scale war” against Russia and wants Canada to help by supplying lethal weapons and training to use them. Vadym Prystaiko says the world must not be afraid of joining Ukraine in the fight against a nuclear power. …read more Source:...
