Section: CTV (Canada)
Strategic Ukraine town under rebel control
The strategic southeastern Ukraine town of Novoazovsk appeared firmly under the control of Russia-backed separatists Thursday and Ukraine’s president called an emergency meeting of the nation’s security council as concerns grew about the opening of a new front in the conflict. …read more Source: CTV...
Rebels enter Ukraine town as battle for strategic coastline heats up
The battle for Ukraine’s strategic coastline heated up Wednesday as a local mayor reported that pro-Russian rebel forces entered a key town in southeast Ukraine after three days of heavy shelling. …read more Source: CTV...
Rebels enter strategic southeast Ukrainian town after 3 days of shelling
The mayor of a town in southeastern Ukraine that has been under heavy shelling for three days says rebel forces have entered the town. …read more Source: CTV...
Government-held town in southeast Ukraine hit by shelling
Heavy shelling hit a town in southeastern Ukraine on Wednesday, the third day of an assault that has forced government troops to spread their ranks thinner along the Russian border. Ukraine claimed the shelling was coming both from pro-Russian separatists and from Russia itself. …read more Source: CTV...
Ukraine’s president says Putin supports his peace plan: report
The Interfax news agency is quoting Ukraine’s president as saying the leaders he met with in Minsk, which included Russian President Vladimir Putin, support his peace plan. …read more Source: CTV...
Putin and Poroshenko meet for first-ever bilateral talks
The presidents of Russia and Ukraine met late Tuesday for their first bilateral talks at a much-anticipated summit in Minsk, which many voiced hopes may help bring an end to fighting between Kyiv’s forces and pro-Russian separatists in east Ukraine. …read more Source: CTV...
Putin, Poroshenko sit down for talks as fighting rages in east Ukraine
The presidents of Russia and Ukraine sat down for talks Tuesday, meeting face-to-face for the first time since June on the fighting that has engulfed Ukraine’s separatist east. …read more Source: CTV...
Shelling rocks part of southeastern Ukraine
As shelling in eastern Ukraine spread to a new front, Ukraine’s president flew to Minsk for a meeting Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the fighting that has engulfed Ukraine’s separatist regions. …read more Source: CTV...
Southeast Ukraine shelled on possible new front
Towering columns of smoke rose Tuesday from outside Novoazovsk, a city in Ukraine’s far southeast, after what residents said was a heavy artillery barrage. …read more Source: CTV...
Weapons convoys spotted moving in eastern Ukraine from direction of Russia
For several evenings this month, convoys of military weaponry passed with clockwork-like regularity through Krasnodon, a rebel-held town in eastern Ukraine near the porous border with Russia. …read more Source: CTV...
