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Ukraine delays heavy weapons pullback

Ukraine delayed a promised pullback of heavy weapons from the front line Monday in eastern Ukraine, blaming continuing attacks from separatist rebels. Under a peace agreement reached Feb. 12, both sides are to withdraw their heavy weapons 25 to 70 kilometers (16 to 44 miles) back to create a buffer[…]

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Poroshenko confirms Ukraine withdrawal from Debaltseve

Ukrainian forces are pulling out of the strategic eastern city of Debaltseve, President Petro Poroshenko said Wednesday. “This morning the armed forces and the national guard completed the planned and organized withdrawal from Debaltseve,” Poroshenko said, according to the Interfax Ukraine news agency. He added that 80 per cent of[…]

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Ukraine rebels, army fighting despite pullback deadline

Ukrainian government troops and Russia-backed rebels faced a deadline Tuesday to start pulling back heavy weapons from the front line in eastern Ukraine, but Associated Press reporters saw no signs of it on the ground. Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko told reporters Tuesday that the separatists continued to attack government[…]

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World leaders in Minsk for Ukraine peace talks

Intense talks on ending the war in Ukraine stretched through the night on Thursday as the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany sought to untangle a complicated skein of military and political issues. More than 5,300 people have died since April in the fighting between Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed[…]

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Separatists claim to surround key Ukraine town

Pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine say they have completely surrounded the strategic town of Debaltseve, a claim denied by the Ukrainian army who insist the fighting is ongoing. The self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) on Tuesday said its fighters have cut off the main supply road into the government-held town[…]

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Attack on Ukraine city could be war crime: UN

Deadly rocket attacks on the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol this weekend that “knowingly targeted civilians” violated international humanitarian law and could amount to war crimes, the U.N. political chief said Monday. Jeffrey Feltman told an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council that monitors from the Organization for Security[…]

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West-Russia tensions to dominate G20 summit

Leaders from the world’s strongest economies have gathered in the Australian city of Brisbane, commencing the G20 summit, with the crisis in Ukraine expected to take centre-stage. The two-day summit, which began on Saturday, promises to be a showdown between Western leaders and Russian President Vladimir Putin, amid fresh reports[…]

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Fears rise amid Ukraine truce breaches

The ceasefire in eastern Ukraine is all but dead, Ukraine’s representative to the Organisation of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has told an Austrian newspaper. It was now barely possible to still speak of a ceasefire, Ihor Prokopchuk was quoted as telling Die Presse in an interview. “Since the[…]

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Ukraine says Russia has sent tanks into east

Ukraine has accused Russia of sending dozens of tanks, heavy weapons and truckloads of armed men into the country’s rebel-controlled eastern areas. Andriy Lysenko, a military spokesman, said on Friday that at least 32 tanks and 16 artillery systems, as well as 30 trucks loaded with armed men and ammunition,[…]

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