Section: CTV (Canada)
East Ukraine rebels complying with ceasefire
Separatist fighters in east Ukraine have moved rocket launchers to a location 70 kilometres back from the front line with government troops in the first confirmed compliance with a cease-fire agreed earlier this month. …read more Source: CTV...
Ukraine, rebels start pulling back heavy weapons in the east
In a long-awaited development, Ukrainian forces and separatist fighters both announced Thursday they are pulling back heavy weapons from the front line in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: CTV...
Ukraine says it will begin pulling back heavy weapons
Ukraine’s military said it would start pulling back its heavy weapons Thursday from the front line with Russian-backed separatists as required under a ceasefire agreement. …read more Source: CTV...
Ukraine ceasefire demand ‘ridiculous’: Russian foreign minister
Russia’s foreign minister is sharply criticizing Ukraine’s insistence that it won’t begin pulling back heavy weapons in its fight against separatists in the east until the rebels fully observe a ceasefire. …read more Source: CTV...
Ukraine demand of full cease-fire ‘ridiculous’: Russia foreign minister
Russia’s foreign minister is sharply criticizing Ukraine’s insistence that it won’t begin pulling back heavy weapons in its fight against separatists in the east until the rebels fully observe a cease-fire. …read more Source: CTV...
Captive Ukrainian soldiers dig out bodies of comrades
Ukrainian POWs in the separatist stronghold of Donetsk began a task Wednesday that strained their hearts as well as their muscles: digging through the rubble to retrieve the bodies of fellow soldiers killed last month in the bitter battle for the city’s airport. …read more Source: CTV...
Captive Ukrainian soldiers dig out the bodies of comrades
Ukrainian troops held captive in the separatist stronghold of Donetsk began digging through the rubble Wednesday to retrieve the bodies of fellow soldiers killed last month in a bitter battle for the city’s airport. …read more Source: CTV...
Ukraine disputes rebel claim that heavy weapons pullback has begun
Russian-backed separatists moved some heavy weapons well back from the front line Tuesday in eastern Ukraine, but the Ukrainian government disputed the rebels’ claim that a real pullback had begun. …read more Source: CTV...
Ukrainian disputes rebel claim that heavy weapons pullback has begun
Howitzers were seen moving east Tuesday from the largest rebel-held city in eastern Ukraine further into separatist-controlled territory, but the Ukrainian government disputed the rebels’ claim that a heavy weapons pullback had begun. …read more Source: CTV...
Rebels say weapons pullback beginning in Ukraine
Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine say 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: CTV...
