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    Poroshenko Says Ukraine Still a Long Way from Peace
    Feb14

    Poroshenko Says Ukraine Still a Long Way from Peace

    Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko meets with troops ahead of a ceasefire that is expected to take hold. They sing the national anthem amid reports that two civilians were killed in separatist shelling in the east. Poroshenko says no one should have illusions about the ceasefire. …read more Source: The Boston...

    Nursery Hit as Ukraine Ceasefire Looms
    Feb14

    Nursery Hit as Ukraine Ceasefire Looms

    Fighting across Eastern Ukraine is showing no signs of letting up as the deadline for a planned ceasefire approaches. …read more Source: The Boston...

    Open Source: Sifting Ukrainian Fact From Ukrainian Fiction
    Feb14

    Open Source: Sifting Ukrainian Fact From Ukrainian Fiction

    Photographs provided to Senator James Inhofe by Ukrainian officials as proof of Russian involvement in Ukraine were taken during the 2008 Georgia war. …read more Source: The New York...

    Ukraine cease-fire deadline provokes bitter last-gasp battle
    Feb14

    Ukraine cease-fire deadline provokes bitter last-gasp battle

    Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Ukraine says that eight troops have been killed and 34 wounded overnight, despite a peace deal and a looming cease-fire deadline.read more …read more Source: CNS...

    Russia Asks UN Security Council to Take Action on Ukraine
    Feb14

    Russia Asks UN Security Council to Take Action on Ukraine

    Russia asks UN Security Council to take rare action on Ukraine by endorsing cease-fire deal …read more Source: ABC...

    Russia asks UN Security Council to take action on Ukraine
    Feb14

    Russia asks UN Security Council to take action on Ukraine

    UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia has circulated a draft resolution in the United Nations Security Council endorsing the latest cease-fire agreement on Ukraine and calling on all parties involved to carry it out. U.N. diplomats say the council is expected to meet Sunday to vote on the resolution, just hours after the cease-fire is to take effect. The...

    Russia asks UN Security Council to take action on Ukraine
    Feb14

    Russia asks UN Security Council to take action on Ukraine

    UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia has circulated a draft resolution in the United Nations Security Council endorsing the latest cease-fire agreement on… …read more Source:...

    Ukraine Arrests Another Journalist as It Girds for Possible Peace
    Feb14

    Ukraine Arrests Another Journalist as It Girds for Possible Peace

    As Ukrainian fighting continues apace as a ceasefire is anticipated this weekend (see P.M. links, and see Ed Krayewski yesterday for why we oughtn’t place too much hope in that ceasefire), Ukraine arrests another journalists for reasons we in the U.S. might not find too proper. (I blogged about the earlier case of Ruslan Kotsaba, for...

    U.S. Accuses Kremlin Of Joining Ukraine Rebels In Assault Ahead Of Cease-Fire
    Feb14

    U.S. Accuses Kremlin Of Joining Ukraine Rebels In Assault Ahead Of Cease-Fire

    The United States accused Russia on Friday of massing artillery and rocket systems around a contested town in eastern Ukraine and joining pro-Russian rebels in attacking Ukrainian forces, calling such actions a violation of the spirit of a cease-fire agreement signed just one day earlier. …read more Source: The Huffington...

    Ukraine cease-fire deadline provokes bitter last-gasp battle
    Feb14

    Ukraine cease-fire deadline provokes bitter last-gasp battle

    ARTEMIVSK, Ukraine — Russian-backed separatists mounted a vicious assault Friday in eastern Ukraine ahead of a weekend cease-fire deadline, pummeling a strategic railway hub with wave upon wave of shelling in a last-minute grab for territory. Interfax-Ukraine news agency quoted Petro Mekhed, Ukraine’s deputy defense minister, as saying that...