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Rebels celebrate day after Ukrainian troops left strategic town
Rebel fighters, many of them Cossacks, roamed the streets of Debaltseve on Thursday, a day after Ukrainian forces began withdrawing from the besieged town. The mood was celebratory, with fighters laughing, hugging each other and posing for photos. …read more Source: CTV...
Ukraine conflict: Petro Poroshenko says seizure of Debaltseve contrary to ceasefire
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, speaking by telephone on Thursday with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and the leaders of Germany and France, said the rebel seizure of the town of Debaltseve had been contrary to the ceasefire agreement they reached last week. …read more Source:...
Ukraine calls for UN peacekeepers to observe ceasefire
At an emergency meeting late on Wednesday, Ukraine’s national security and defense council approved Poroshenko’s request despite comment from pro-Russian rebels that it would breach a peace deal …read more Source: The Globe and...
Debaltseve under rebel control, leaders scramble for peace
Debaltseve appeared to be largely under the control of rebels Thursday, a day after Ukrainian forces began withdrawing from the besieged town. …read more Source: CTV...
Debaltseve under rebel control, as EU leaders try to salvage truce
AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File DEBALTSEVE, Ukraine – Associated Press journalists in eastern Ukraine say Debaltseve appears to be largely under the control rebels a day after Ukrainian forces began withdrawing from the besieged town. In a drive around about half the town on Thursday, all neighbourhoods were under the control of rebel fighters,...
Russia accuses Ukraine of aiming to destroy Minsk accords
Russia’s UN ambassador Vitaly Churkin has denounced Ukraine’s call for the deployment of UN peacekeepers in eastern Ukraine as a destructive move. The Ukrainian president’s call “raises suspicions that he wants to destroy the Minsk accords”, Mr Churkin said. The Minsk ceasefire deal was reached a week ago but fighting round the...
Putin’s ghostly victory in eastern Ukraine: Don Murray
The fighting in eastern Ukraine has created ghost towns, a ghost ceasefire and, now perhaps, a ghost victory for Russian President Vladimir Putin, Don Murray writes. He and the Russian separatists he supports are the current victors of a battered landscape. …read more Source:...
Ukraine crisis: withdrawal from besieged town 90 percent complete
A Ukrainian military spokesman says more than 90 per cent of its forces have been withdrawn from the fiercely contested town of Debaltseve and its surroundings. …read more Source: Global...
Ukraine withdrawal from Debaltseve 90 per cent complete
A Ukrainian military spokesman says more than 90 per cent of its forces have been withdrawn from the fiercely contested town of Debaltseve and its surroundings, but left unclear when the retreat might be completed. …read more Source: CTV...
Ukraine conflict: Petro Poroshenko wants UN peacekeepers deployed
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has called for UN peacekeepers to be deployed to monitor a ceasefire in east Ukraine, a proposal that pro-Russia rebels swiftly said would be in breach of a peace deal. …read more Source:...
