by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jul 18, 2017 | World
Separatists loyal to Russia announced on Tuesday plans to abolish Ukraine and replace it with a new state in what will likely create tensions and threaten a fragile ceasefire deal that was reached in 2015. The separatist Donetsk News Agency on Tuesday quoted leader of...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 4, 2015 | World
Donetsk, Reuters—A blast at a coal mine in the eastern Ukrainian rebel stronghold of Donetsk killed more than 30 people, a local official said on Wednesday, with dozens more miners who were underground at the time unaccounted for. Miners’ relatives were...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 16, 2015 | World
Luhansk, Ukraine, AP—Intense artillery exchanges between Ukrainian government forces and Russian-backed separatists persisted on Monday around a strategic town in eastern Ukraine—fighting that threatens to dash a ceasefire deal brokered by European leaders last week....
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 14, 2015 | World
Artemivsk, Ukraine, AP—Russian-backed separatists mounted a vicious assault Friday in eastern Ukraine ahead of a weekend ceasefire deadline, pummeling a strategic railway hub with wave upon wave of shelling in a last-minute grab for territory. At least 26 people were...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 11, 2015 | World
Donetsk, AP—Shelling rocked a bus station in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk Wednesday as fighting continued to rage in eastern Ukraine ahead of crucial peace talks later in the day. Rebel officials said that five people were killed and nine wounded at the scene of...
