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Captive Ukrainian soldiers dig out bodies of comrades
Feb25

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...

EU president warns of new sanctions for Russia if Ukraine peace deal collapses
Feb25

EU president warns of new sanctions for Russia if Ukraine peace deal collapses

European Union President Donald Tusk warns that the EU will not hesitate to impose new punishment on the separatists and Russia if the latest Ukraine peace deal collapses. …read more Source: Global...

Ukraine crisis: Should Canada push the West to provide weapons?
Feb25

Ukraine crisis: Should Canada push the West to provide weapons?

Before brokering the latest sputtering ceasefire, German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned the hawks, both in Washington and across the Ukrainian diaspora, about arming Kyiv’s forces to battle Russian-backed separatists. …read more Source: National...

Moscow lied ‘to my face,’ John Kerry says as Russia’s state-controlled energy behemoth threatens to cut of Ukraine
Feb25

Moscow lied ‘to my face,’ John Kerry says as Russia’s state-controlled energy behemoth threatens to cut of Ukraine

MOSCOW — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry accused Moscow of lying “to my face” Tuesday as Russia warned that Ukraine could run out of natural gas within two because of a dispute over payments. The warning by Alexey B. Miller, the chief executive of Gazprom, the state-controlled Russian energy behemoth, illustrated how the hostilities between...

Captive Ukrainian soldiers dig out the bodies of comrades
Feb25

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 celebrates first day with no troops killed under truce
Feb25

Ukraine celebrates first day with no troops killed under truce

A long-awaited truce took hold at last in east Ukraine on Wednesday, with the army reporting no combat fatalities for the first time in weeks, but the news did nothing to halt a currency collapse that forced the central bank to ban most trading. …read more Source: The Toronto...

France Warns Russia And Its Allies Not To Advance On Ukrainian Port City
Feb25

France Warns Russia And Its Allies Not To Advance On Ukrainian Port City

The foreign ministers of the four signatories to the Minsk ceasefire agreement met in Paris to discuss the fighting in Ukraine. Kiev worries the separatists’ next target will be Mariupol.» E-Mail This …read more Source:...

Ceasefire appears to take hold in Ukraine
Feb25

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:...

Truce seems to take hold as Ukraine’s currency in limbo
Feb25

Truce seems to take hold as Ukraine’s currency in limbo

Ukrainian military said it was still too early for it to begin withdrawing its own heavy guns …read more Source: The Globe and...

The Chechen commander who fought – and died – for Ukraine
Feb25

The Chechen commander who fought – and died – for Ukraine

‘The Chechen people came to our aid because they understand all too well what invasion by the Russian terrorists means,’ mourners told at memorial for an old enemy of Vladimir Putin’s …read more Source: The Globe and...