by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 14, 2014 | World
Kiev, Reuters—Ukraine on Monday accused Russian army officers of fighting alongside separatists in the east of the country and said Moscow was once more building up its troops on the joint border. A missile that downed a Ukrainian transport plane near the border was...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 6, 2014 | World
Kiev, Reuters—Ukrainian security officials said on Sunday they were in full control of the former rebel stronghold of Slaviansk after retaking it in a victory which President Petro Poroshenko said could mark a turning point in the fight against the separatists....
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 29, 2014 | World
Donetsk, Reuters—Pro-Russian separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine on Saturday released a second group of four monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) who had been seized on May 29, a Reuters witness said. Their release, which...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 24, 2014 | World
Kiev and Donetsk, Reuters—Rebels shot down a Ukrainian helicopter carrying technicians who had been installing equipment to monitor violations of a peace plan in Ukraine’s rebellious east on Tuesday, killing all nine people on board, a military spokesman said....
by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 11, 2014 | World
Mariupol and Slaviansk, Reuters—East Ukrainian rebels pressed ahead with a referendum on self-rule on Sunday and new fighting flared in a conflict that has raised fears of civil war and pitched relations between Russia and the West into their worst crisis since the...
