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Seven Ukrainian soldiers killed, 13 wounded in Donbas in last day
Seven Ukrainian soldiers were killed and another 13 were wounded in the Donbas conflict zone in the last 24 hours, presidential administration spokesman for Anti-Terrorist Operation issues, Colonel Oleksandr Motuzianyk said at a briefing on Thursday "In the last day, we lost seven Ukrainian soldiers, and another 13 were...
Poroshenko: No Minsk III
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has ruled out the signing of new Minsk accords, pointing out that there is a set of the Minsk agreements and all parties must implement them. "I would like to stress: there have been and will be no Minsk III agreements. We have a whole set of the Minsk agreements… And everyone...
Rada investigative commission: About 1,000 soldiers killed in Ilovaisk battle
The death toll of Ukrainian military and law enforcement personnel killed in action in the battle near the town of Ilovaisk in Donetsk region last year may amount to 1,000 people, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada's interim investigative commission Andriy Senchenko said at a conference on Wednesday, Ukrainian news Web portal...
Summing Up Normandy Format Talks: Ukraine briefs journalists on results of Berlin meeting
Deputy Head of the Ukraine's Presidential Administration Kostiantyn Yeliseyev briefed journalists on August 25 about the results of negotiations between President Petro Poroshenko, German Chanceller Angela Merkel and French President Francios Hollande in Berlin a day earlier. He said Ukraine's European partners strongly...
Two Ukrainian soldiers killed, nine wounded in Donbas in last day
Two Ukrainian soldiers were killed and another nine were wounded in the Donbas conflict zone in the last 24 hours, presidential administration spokesman for Anti-Terrorist Operation issues, Colonel Oleksandr Motuzianyk said at a briefing on Tuesday, according to an UNIAN correspondent. "In the last day, we lost two...
Merkel with Poroshenko: No new format of talks on Ukraine needed
The Minsk agreements should be observed, while the Normandy format, engaging Ukraine, Germany, France and Russia, should be reinforced, therefore there is no need to create a new format of talks on the Ukraine crisis, according to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is meeting with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and...
One child killed, three wounded in explosion in Donetsk region, — Interior Ministry
The killed child was four years old, three other children, aged 8-10 years, were taken to hospital with serious injuries. Children were playing in the street and found an unknown object which exploded. This is reported by Censor.NET citing the Donetsk region Interior Ministry press service. According to the report, the tragedy...
Poroshenko: Novorossiya the same myth as Tolkien’s Mordor
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says that the Russian propaganda-fueled project Novorossiya (literally "New Russia"), represented by the two self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic in Donbas, Ukraine's east, is the same myth as Mordor, J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional...
Legendary «cyborg» raised the battle flag of one of the heaps of Donetsk (video)
Soldiers also thanked the Ukrainians and volunteers for their support and...
Dogs to help Ukrainian veterans through post-war traumas
As congratulations came in from international leaders ahead of Ukraine's Independence Day on Aug. 24, the Ukrainian military warned that Russian-backed militants may don Ukrainian military uniforms and fire on civilians in residential areas they control in Donetsk and elsewhere in the Donbas. The aim of the attacks,...
Frontline East Ukraine: Ukrainian troops say insurgents didn’t pull back heavy weaponry
Residents of a small village in Ukraine’s Luhansk region called Zolote have been living with the sound of shelling for weeks. Ukrainian troops stationed near the outskirts say that Russian-backed militants are using 120 mm mortars to shell during the day. These are the heavier weapons which were supposed to be...
Pope Appeals for Peace: Pope Francis calls for honouring of commitments in east Ukraine
Pope Francis has voiced his concern over the latest spike in violence in east Ukraine and called on authorities to honor the commitments made to achieve peace in the region....