Ukraine leader vows to retake separatist-held east
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Ukraines president vowed Sunday to reassert government control over eastern regions as the army unleashed a counter-offensive against Russian-backed separatist fighters vying for command over the airport in the city of Donetsk.
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Russian media also said fighting had broken out overnight near the town of Kramatorsk, just south of Slaviansk but Reuters could not independently confirm the reports.. Reuters journalists in Slaviansk, the most heavily fortified bastion of pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, heard shooting and saw one helicopter opening fire before dawn. Later in the day,. Putins popularity has soared with the seizure of Crimea and talk of restoring Moscows former empire.
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As Fighting Rages In Mariupol, Ukraine Soldiers Say President Would Betray The Country If He Backs Peace. Tyler Durdens. The NATO summit of world-class golfers is on its way out (having achieved nothing material and merely regurgitating old talking points), but it will be promptly replaced with yet another round of peace talks in Minsk, Belarus where all the usual suspects are gathered as well as the leaders of the eastern Ukraine separatists. According to��.
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Building in Odessa with pro-Russia protesters inside engulfed in flames; pro-Russian separatists claim Ukrainian forces launched a large-scale operation to retake the eastern town of Slavyansk.. The fight rages on in Odessa. Pro-Kiev forces are laying siege to a building identified as a trade union headquarters, where pro-Moscow forces had holed up after the street clashes earlier. Police report at least three people.. Hostage negotiations reach critical stage.
Ukraine crisis: Tanks cross border from Russia
. declared head of the self-proclaimed Luhansk Peoples Republic, further to the east. President Petro Poroshenko has accused the rebels of tearing up the peace deal and said that a law granting the rebel-held regions partial autonomy would be scrapped.
Ukrainian troops retake most of Donetsk airport from rebels
Ukrainian troops launched a mass operation overnight, retaking almost all the territory of Donetsk airport in eastern Ukraine lost to separatists in recent weeks, even as thousands gathered in Kiev for a state-sponsored peace march on Sunday.. With attempts to restart peace talks stalled, pro-Russian rebels have stepped up attacks in the past week and casualties have mounted, including the deaths of 13 civilians in an attack on a passenger bus, which Kiev has��.
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KIEV (Reuters) - At least 20 people were killed by shelling in the east Ukrainian port city of Mariupol on Saturday, regional police said, as a rebel leader said separatists were launching an offensive on the city, the news agency RIA reported. The separatists have rejected more peace talks and fighting has surged to its most intense���
As Fighting Rages In Mariupol, Ukraine Soldiers Say.
According to Reuters, representatives of Ukraine, the pro-Russian separatist leadership, Russia and the OSCE security watchdog began talks on Friday on resolving the Ukraine conflict.. on its way out (having achieved nothing material and merely regurgitating old talking points), but it will be promptly replaced with yet another round of peace talks in Minsk, Belarus where all the usual suspects are gathered as well as the leaders of the eastern Ukraine separatists.
NATO Says Russian Forces Are in Ukraine as Putin Goes to G-20
5 cease-fire agreement signed in Minsk, Belarus, Samantha Power, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, told journalists yesterday, citing a growing number of military convoys in Ukraines rebel-held regions and increased shelling of the Donetsk.
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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has vowed to calm fighting with pro-Russia rebels in east Ukraine after 30 people were killed there on Saturday. Speaking after an emergency meeting of Ukraines security council, Mr Poroshenko said��.
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(Reuters) ��� Fighting raged in Ukraines east on Wednesday when separatists tried to break through the lies of government forces near the border with Russia and a tentative step towards agreeing conditions for a ceasefire failed.. A contact group of officials from Ukraine, Russia and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said it tried on Tuesday to re-activate peace talks ��� but a planned video link-up with separatists never materialised.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) ��� Fighting between the Syrian arm of al Qaeda and Western-backed rebels in northern Syria spread from Aleppo province into neighboring Idlib on Friday, the rebel group and an organization monitoring the civil war said. Clashes began on. DONETSK, Ukraine/MINSK (Reuters) ��� Civilians were killed on both sides in heavy fighting in eastern Ukraine on Friday, while an attempt to reopen peace talks in neighboring Belarus was aborted before it began. Rebel��.
G20 Leaders Rebuke Putin Over Ukraine
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Ukraine and rebels trade prisoners in Donetsk
Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine have exchanged scores of prisoners with the Ukrainian government near the rebel-held city of Donetsk. The deal was. Although fighting has lessened considerably, the conflict continues and more than 1,300 people.
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Kerry, Saying Russians Died in Ukraine, Urges Moscow to Carry Out Peace Accord
BASEL, Switzerland ��� Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday that hundreds of Russian soldiers have been fighting and dying inside Ukraine, the first time that he has spoken so pointedly about the Russian militarys casualty toll in the east.
Ukraine, rebels gather for peace talks as fighting rages in east
A Reuters reporter in the Belarussian capital saw the main participants in the so-called contact group -- including Ukrainian former president Leonid Kuchma, a Russian diplomat and rebel officials -- arrive at Minsk airport and then drive off towards.
Ukraine Sees Russia Hand in Downed Plane as Talks Begin
Ukraines government said Russian forces may have shot down one of its airplanes to bolster the Kremlin-backed insurgency amid a European push for peace talks that Germany expects to inch forward today. An An-26 transport plane. The government is.
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Women in Stepanivka, eastern Ukraine, 19 November Winter is setting in in eastern Ukraine. Here a woman cries as she stands near her ruined home in Stepanivka, a rebel-controlled village in Donetsk region which saw heavy fighting in the summer.
More Ukrainian soldiers killed as fighting rages in east, peace move flops
KIEV/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Pro-Moscow separatists battled to break through lines of government forces near the border with Russia in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday, and a tentative step towards agreeing a ceasefire in the intensifying three-month .
Ukraine, rebels and Russia eye peace talks as fighting wanes
Fighting in eastern Ukraine subsided on Tuesday as Kiev, Russia and Moscow-backed rebels in the region said they hoped for a prolonged ceasefire and the resumption of peace negotiations this week. Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenkos aides said .
Ukraine elections: Pro-Western parties set for victory
Ukraines president and prime minister are set to publish a draft coalition agreement, after an apparently sweeping victory for pro-Western parties in Sundays parliamentary elections. With half the. Both men said they expected other parties to join.
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The Washington Posts Karen DeYoung: Syrian President Bashar ���[al-]Assads military surrounds, and regularly bombards from the air, Western-backed moderate opposition fighters and civilians in Aleppo, Syrias second-largest city, in the northwest.
Breakthrough hopes dented as Ukraine accuses Russia of new incursion
Ukraines Security Services also said in a statement it had detained another Russian soldier in the east of the country who has confessed his unit provided military support to separatist rebels. Lysenko said fighting in two other towns, Horlivka and.
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KIEV ��� Ukrainian troops have recaptured almost all the territory of Donetsk airport in eastern Ukraine they had lost to separatists in recent weeks and thousands gathered in Kiev for a state-sponsored peace march. Sundays. With attempts to restart peace talks stalled, pro-Russian rebels have stepped up attacks in the past week and casualties have mounted, including 13 civilians killed in an attack on a passenger bus, which Kiev blamed on the separatists.
Ukraine, rebels argue over wreck; Europeans give Putin last chance
At one point, a Reuters correspondent heard a senior rebel tell the OSCE delegation they could not approach the wreckage and would simply be informed in due course of an investigation conducted by the separatists. However, fighters later let them visit.
Ukraine threatens rebels with nasty surprise in new push
KIEV/DONETSK, Ukraine, July 8 (Reuters) - Ukraines government kept up military pressure against pro-Russian rebels on Tuesday, threatening them with an nasty surprise, while the militants said they were preparing to. But Poroshenko - whose officials have ruled out any more unilateral ceasefires - kept the door open to a further round of indirect peace talks with separatist leaders, naming a possible venue in a government-controlled monastery-town in the east.
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Ukrainian soldiers killed as fighting rages in east, peace.
(Reuters) ��� Fighting raged in Ukraines east on Wednesday when separatists tried to break through the lines of government forces near the border with Russia and a tentative step towards agreeing conditions for a ceasefire failed.. A contact group of officials from Ukraine, Russia and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said it tried on Tuesday to re-activate peace talks ��� but a planned video link-up with separatists never materialised.
Poroshenko hails Ukraine warriors freed by rebels.
Ukraines allies in Europe hope that Fridays exchange will mark a watershed moment in a war that seems at a stalemate but still rages on because of the immense mistrust between the two sides. Kiev on. The country will fight for each one of its faithful sons.. The Minsk negotiations were called to reinforce a largely ignored peace plan struck in September that aimed to both stem the bloodshed and ease the crisis in East-West relations the conflict has sparked.
More Ukrainian soldiers killed as fighting rages in east.
KIEV/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Pro-Moscow separatists battled to break through lines of government forces near the border with Russia in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday, and a tentative step towards agreeing a ceasefire in the. A contact group of officials from Ukraine, Russia and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said it tried on Tuesday to re-activate peace talks - but a planned video link-up with separatists never materialised.
Ukraine, rebels gather for peace talks as fighting rages in east
By Andrei Makhovsky and Richard Balmforth MINSK/KIEV (Reuters) ��� A new round of peace talks were about to start on the Ukraine crisis on Saturday, even as fighting between Kiev government forces and pro-Russian��.