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Separatists Accuse Ukrainian Govt of Using Heavy Weapons
Separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine on Friday accused government forces of shelling residential areas under their control with heavy artillery, while Ukrainian forces said the rebels were violating the cease-fire.The rebel mouthpiece Donetsk News Agency said Ukrainian… …read more Source:...
Ex-Ukrainian Justice Minister Detained in Shootings Probe
Ukraine’s Security Service says former Justice Minister Olena Lukash has been detained in connection with a probe into deadly shootings during opposition protests in 2014.More than a hundred people were killed on and around Kiev’s central Independence Square (also called… …read more Source:...
Ukraine’s Rebel Center in Limbo as Fighting Dies Down
The fighting has subsided, but Donetsk is quickly sinking into the past – a shabby Soviet-like state of empty streets and deprivation. Huge portraits of Josef Stalin hanging in the city center only reinforce the impression of failure.The wounds are raw in the capital of… …read more Source:...
Weapons Pullback in Eastern Ukraine in Jeopardy
Ukrainian government forces and Russia-backed rebels in the east of the country are threatening to stop the ongoing weapons withdrawal if their positions continue to come under attack.Olexander Turchynov, chairman of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council, said… …read more Source:...
Ukrainian Accused of Plotting Attack against Russian Embassy
A prosecutor has accused a Ukrainian man of plotting a terror attack against the Russian Embassy in London after returning from a visit to eastern Ukraine at the height of the conflict there.Prosecutor Robin Sellars told the Central Criminal Court that 35-year-old Vadim… …read more Source:...
Ukraine Faces Years of Dependence on Western Aid
Looking on from her vegetable patch at the motorcade of U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, Ukrainian villager Olha Voloshchenko says she’d seen the lady on the TV news the night before, but “then the lights went off at our place.”The U.S. hopes agriculture in places… …read more Source:...
Ukrainian Soldier Killed near Rebel-held Donetsk Airport
Ukraine says one of its soldiers has been killed by rebel forces that were violating a cease-fire in the east.It was the first reported government loss in fighting since mid-October. A February cease-fire between government and rebel forces has largely held since both sides… …read more Source:...
Exit Polls in Ukraine Local Elections Show East-west Split
Four exit polls from Ukraine’s local elections indicate the governing coalition has retained its dominant position in the west and center of the country despite widespread disappointment with the government of President Petro Poroshenko.In the south and east, voters favored… …read more Source:...
Direct Flights between Russia and Ukraine Stopped
Direct flights between Russia and Ukraine have stopped as a result of continuing tensions over Russia’s annexation of Crimea and backing of separatists in eastern Ukraine.Travelers between the two nations will now have to fly through another country, take the overnight… …read more Source:...
Ukraine Holds Local Elections That Test Oligarchs’ Reach
Ukrainians voted Sunday in local elections that were seen as a test of the strength of President Petro Poroshenko’s government and of the oligarchs accustomed to running regions of the country.Voters were choosing more than 10,700 local councils as well as mayors. However,… …read more Source:...
