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Rockets kill 30 in Ukrainian city as rebels launch offensive
Jan26

Rockets kill 30 in Ukrainian city as rebels launch offensive

KYIV, Ukraine — Indiscriminate rocket fire slammed into a market, two schools, homes and shops Saturday in the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, killing at least 30 people, authorities said. Ukraine’s top rebel leader said an offensive had begun on the strategically important port. Ukraine’s president called an emergency meeting of...

Pro-Russian Ukraine rebels rip up current ceasefire deal, launch new offensive
Jan26

Pro-Russian Ukraine rebels rip up current ceasefire deal, launch new offensive

DONETSK, Ukraine — Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine rejected a previously signed peace deal Friday and launched a new multipronged offensive against Ukrainian government troops, upending recent European attempts to mediate an end to the fighting. The main separatist leader in the rebellious Donetsk region vowed to push Ukrainian soldiers out...

Ukrainian rebels threaten an all-out offensive, defying agreement to return to ceasefire positions
Jan26

Ukrainian rebels threaten an all-out offensive, defying agreement to return to ceasefire positions

Russian-backed separatists promised Thursday to follow up a devastating victory over Ukrainian forces at Donetsk airport with a further advances, defying an agreement between Moscow and Kiev to return to a previous ceasefire line and raising fears of an all-out offensive. The threat came after a mortar attack on a bus and tram in Donetsk killed...

Leonid Bershidsky: Battered shell of Donetsk’s ruined airport reflects hopelessness of Ukraine conflict
Jan26

Leonid Bershidsky: Battered shell of Donetsk’s ruined airport reflects hopelessness of Ukraine conflict

Donetsk Airport has become a dystopian ruin, with its runways so cratered, only a helicopter could land. Yet both sides in the fight over it keep claiming to control it. Ukrainians consider it a symbol of their military resurgence since last summer’s painful defeats. Instead, it is coming to embody the senselessness of seeking any military...

11 civilians killed in attack on commuter bus near army checkpoint in eastern Ukraine
Jan26

11 civilians killed in attack on commuter bus near army checkpoint in eastern Ukraine

DONETSK, Ukraine — An attack on a passenger bus in eastern Ukraine killed 11 people Tuesday, likely dealing the final blow to hopes that a short-lived and shaky cease-fire could take hold. Across Donetsk, the city that Russian-backed separatists call their capital, explosions and the sound of shells whistling overhead are again unnerving the...

Russia’s body count is rising in Ukraine, despite army officials’ denials
Jan26

Russia’s body count is rising in Ukraine, despite army officials’ denials

Anton Tumanov gave up his life for his country, but his country won’t say where and it won’t say how. His mother knows. She knows that Mr. Tumanov, 20, a junior sergeant in the Russian army, was killed in eastern Ukraine, torn apart in a rocket attack on Aug 13. Yelena Tumanova, 41, learned these bare facts about her son’s death...

Putin signs new military doctrine naming NATO as Russia’s top military threat
Jan26

Putin signs new military doctrine naming NATO as Russia’s top military threat

MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin has signed a new military doctrine that describes NATO’s military buildup near the Russian borders as the top military threat amid Russia-West tensions over Ukraine. The document released by the Kremlin on Friday maintains the provisions of the previous, 2010 edition of the military doctrine regarding the...

Christmas under fire: Conditions increasingly dire for citizens of rebel-held Ukrainian town
Jan26

Christmas under fire: Conditions increasingly dire for citizens of rebel-held Ukrainian town

DONETSK, Ukraine — The blasts were so powerful they nearly knocked Antonina Sumina off her feet and shattered windows on the opposite side of the apartment. But after five months living under fire, the Grad rocket strike that slammed into the courtyard of her home in Pervomaisk, 80 kilometres north-east of Donetsk, was a familiar event. Vasily...

Ukraine abandons nonaligned status in possible step towards NATO membership, Russia not happy
Jan26

Ukraine abandons nonaligned status in possible step towards NATO membership, Russia not happy

KYIV, Ukraine — The vote by Ukraine’s parliament to drop its nonaligned status, which could pave the way for a bid to join NATO, challenges the Kremlin’s ardent desire to keep NATO from taking a giant step toward the Russian heartland. The move is likely to add difficulties to Wednesday’s round of talks aimed at resolving the...

Ukrainian soldiers killed in intensified rebel attacks
Jan26

Ukrainian soldiers killed in intensified rebel attacks

Seven Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in intensified clashes with pro-Russian rebels in the eastern conflict zone in the past 24 hours, the Kiev military said on Monday, reporting fierce fighting at the strategic small town of Debaltseve. …read more Source: The Toronto...