Ukraine death toll rises as Minsk talks fail
Thirteen government soldiers, and at least as many civilians have been killed in the past 24 hours in eastern Ukraine's separatist conflict after the collapse of peace talks, Kyiv authorities said.
View ArticleMinsk quadrilateral last chance to avoid ‘total war’
The leaders of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France agreed to meet in Belarus on Wednesday (11 February) to try to broker a peace deal for Ukraine, amid escalating violence and signs of cracks in the...
View ArticleUkraine ceasefire holds, but tensions persist at Debaltseve
Ukraine's rebels disavowed a new truce on Sunday (15 February) hours after it took effect, saying it did not apply to the town of Debaltseve, where most fighting has taken place in recent weeks.
View ArticleBattle rages near Debaltseve despite truce
Pro-Russian rebels pounded encircled Ukrainian government forces on Monday (16 February) and Kyiv said it would not pull back heavy guns while a truce was being violated, leaving a European-brokered...
View ArticlePutin tells Ukrainian troops to surrender
President Vladimir Putin told Kyiv to let its soldiers surrender to rebels, who spurned a ceasefire and fought their way on Tuesday (17 February) into the town of Debaltseve, encircling thousands of...
View ArticleNormandy quartet agrees to reinforcement of Ukraine OSCE mission
The foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany agreed on Tuesday (24 February) to seek a reinforcement of the international monitoring mission in Ukraine and renewed their calls for an...
View ArticleWestern leaders discuss Ukraine over video conference
U.S. President Barack Obama and European leaders yesterday warned Russia that they were ready to step up sanctions if there were further violations of a ceasefire agreement in Ukraine, officials said.
View ArticleSteinmeier: A political solution in Ukraine could take decades
Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany's Minister for Foreign Affairs, said that even if the efforts to stop the conflict in eastern Ukraine prove successful, finding a political solution would take decades,...
View ArticleGermany calls for 2nd phase of Minsk agreement
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has called on Russia and Ukraine to set in motion the next phase of the shaky Minsk peace accords aimed at stopping the fighting in east Ukraine, ahead...
View ArticleViolence in Ukraine increases as G7 meets in Lübeck
Ukraine's military accused pro-Russian rebels yesterday (13 April) of using heavy weapons that were meant to have been withdrawn under a ceasefire deal, after one Ukrainian serviceman was killed and...
View ArticleUkrainian foreign minister: ‘Business as usual’ with Russia is a bad joke
Those who don’t understand that Ukraine is a test case for the European Union, don’t realise that the EU is already under attack by Russia, Pavlo Klimkin, the country's foreign minister, told EurActiv...
View ArticleAt summit, Ukraine to press EU for peacekeepers
Ukraine will press European leaders for peacekeepers to patrol its war-torn east and will angle for more international financial support at two days of high-level talks starting today (27 April).
View ArticleFrance acknowledges ‘mounting tensions’ in Nagorno-Karabakh
French President François Hollande has met with both the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, and Ilham Aliyev, the President Azerbaijan, against the background of reports of renewed violence in...
View ArticleEU-Ukraine summit clouded by worsening violence
Top European Union officials met the Ukrainian leadership on Monday for talks on deepening trade links and efforts to bring peace to Ukraine, but worsening violence in the separatist-minded east...
View ArticleViolence in Albanian region deepens Macedonian crisis
Macedonia said on Sunday (10 May) that its police had wiped out a group of ethnic Albanian "terrorists" in a day-long gun battle that left at least 22 people dead at a moment of deep political crisis...
View ArticleUS brinkmanship closed OSCE office in Baku, claim diplomats
EXCLUSIVE: Azerbaijan gave one month to the office of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Baku to close down, which was interpreted by Western media as a response to...
View ArticleArmenian president tries to defuse electricity protests
Armenian authorities threatened Sunday (28 June) to forcefully break up a protest against rising electricity prices and police brutality after the president announced concessions in a bid to calm...
View ArticleEU calls Nagorno-Karabakh escalation ‘unsustainable’
Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh are reported to be bickering about how many of their soldiers had been killed in recent clashes, stoking fears of a wider conflict breaking out in the South Caucasus.
View ArticleLukashenko wins election as Belarus’ ties with West improve
Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko won a fifth term in office by a landslide on Sunday (11 October) in an election that could see an easing of relations with the West and raise questions about...
View ArticleEU lifts sanctions against Belarus
The European Union agreed on Monday (12 October) to suspend sanctions against the regime of Belarussian strongman Alexander Lukashenko after he won a fifth term as president, even though observers said...
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