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A wrecked Kamaz truck is seen near the Donetsk airport May 27, 2014. (REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis)

Fighting rages in Ukraine eastern city, at least 40 dead

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 27, 2014 | World

Donetsk, Reuters—Ukrainian forces fought with separatists in the city of Donetsk for a second day on Tuesday after inflicting heavy losses on the rebels while the government vowed to press on with a military offensive “until not a single terrorist” was...

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A woman walks past an election poster of businessman, politician and presidential candidate Petro Poroshenko, a day after Ukrainian presidential election. in Kiev May 26, 2014. (REUTERS/Gleb Garanich)

Ukrainians back billionaire to save them from crisis

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 26, 2014 | World

Kiev, Reuters—Petro Poroshenko, a billionaire chocolate manufacturer, claimed the Ukrainian presidency with an emphatic election victory on Sunday, taking on a fraught mission to quell pro-Russian rebels and steer his fragile nation closer to the West. A veteran...

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A woman casts her ballot at a polling station during Ukraine’s presidential elections in the eastern Ukrainian town of Krasnoermeisk (Red Army), northwest of Donetsk May 25, 2014. (REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis)

Ukraine election draws high turnout, voters blocked in fearful east

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 25, 2014 | World

Kiev/Donetsk, Reuters—Ukrainians voted on Sunday in a presidential election billed as the most important since they won their independence from Moscow 23 years ago, but armed pro-Russian separatists disrupted voting in eastern regions of the former Soviet republic....

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Pro-Russian armed militants stand guard at a barricade which faces a position manned by Ukrainian army soldiers near the eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyansk, Donetsk region, on May 23, 2014. (AFP PHOTO / VIKTOR DRACHEV)

Armed clashes in east as Ukraine counts down to election

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 23, 2014 | World

Kiev and Karlovka, Reuters—Armed pro-Russian separatists and a Ukrainian militia group clashed in the east of Ukraine on Friday, leaving at least two dead and heightening tension ahead of a presidential election called to draw a line under six months of bloody...

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Remains of mortar shells are seen by a destroyed Ukrainian army mobile mortar truck in the eastern Ukrainian village of Oktyabrskoe May 14, 2014. (REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis)

Ukraine agrees to talks—but its foes are missing

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 14, 2014 | World

Kiev, AP—The Ukrainian government reluctantly agreed to launch talks on decentralizing power on Wednesday as part of a European-backed peace plan, but with no invitation for the pro-Russian insurgents who have declared independence in two eastern regions it was...