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Ukraine: Truce with separatists results in nation’s 1st casualty-free day since crisis began
Ukraine’s president said Friday that a fragile truce between his government’s troops and Russian-backed separatists in east Ukraine had resulted in the first day free of deaths or injuries for his soldiers since the conflict erupted months ago. …read more Source: FOX...
Ukraine: Truce with separatists results in nation’s first casualty-free day since crisis began
Ukraine’s president says a fragile truce between his government’s troops and Russian-backed separatists in east Ukraine has resulted in the seven-month-old conflict’s first day free of deaths or injuries for his soldiers. …read more Source: FOX...
Ukraine’s president urges Russia to withdraw troops, close border
Australia has pledged its support for Ukraine during a visit by the nation’s president and urged Russia to honor a little-respected cease-fire agreement signed in September. …read more Source: FOX...
Ukraine urges Russia to remove troops
Australia pledged its support for Ukraine during a visit by the nation’s president on Thursday, with Australia’s prime minister calling for an end to the bloody conflict in Eastern Europe and Ukraine’s leader urging Russia to withdraw. …read more Source: FOX...
Ukraine to extend truce with Russian-backed separatists as new peace talks loom
Ukraine says it will continue upholding a truce with Russian-backed separatists following a day largely free of exchanges of fire between the warring sides. …read more Source: FOX...
Annexation of Crimea upends lives of Tatar minority, stirs new fears of searches, kidnappings
Since Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine, armed men have shown up frequently and at odd hours to search the cinder-block houses, mosque and school in this settlement of Crimean Tatars, a Muslim ethnic minority that has long suffered from discrimination in the peninsula that is its historic homeland. …read more Source: FOX...
Ukraine embarks on “day of silence” in new effort to forge permanent cease-fire in the east
Ukraine’s military authorities say they are suspending hostilities against Russian-backed separatists in the east in line with a truce declared last week. …read more Source: FOX...
Canada’s defense minister says Canadian soldiers to train Ukrainian military police
Canada’s defense minister says Canadian soldiers are arriving in Ukraine to help train military police. …read more Source: FOX...
EU official says Bosnia is willing to join the bloc, despite Russia’s objections
The European Union has urged Russia to leave the Balkans out of its dispute with the bloc over Ukraine, and to let the region proceed on its path toward EU and NATO memberships. …read more Source: FOX...
Ukraine tests ground for lasting cease-fire with Russian-backed separatists with one-day truce
A Ukrainian military spokesman says a one-day truce announced by the president will serve as a test for the prospects of a definitive cessation of hostilities against Russian-backed separatists. …read more Source: FOX...