Kiev authorities do not want to hold a normal dialogue with DPR and LPR thus violating the basics of the Ukraine settlement process, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister says
Pentagon's new chief, Ashton Carter, said on Sunday he has not yet given any recommendations for President Barack Obama on whether Washington should send lethal arms to the Kiev authorities.
A comprehensive ceasefire is of crucial importance, the German government is worried that it is not seen yet, German government spokesman Steffen Seibert says
In an interview with Russian news agency TASS, Rupert Colville explained that the real figure may be considerably higher given that the UN had so far not managed to get reliable information on casualties in Debaltsevo
Basurin said that the Ukrainian side had been delivering indiscriminate barraging fire in the areas around the townships of Vidnoye and Opytnoye since Wednesday afternoon
Hundreds of Ukrainian troops had surrendered to DPR militias over the past 24 hours, a spokesman for the defense ministry of Donetsk People’s Republic says
Earlier on Sunday, speaker of the General Staff Vladislav Seleznev said firing at positions of the Ukrainian military has not been registered since 3 a.m
Ukraine, to use a technical term, is broke. That's what you call a country whose currency has lost half its value in just two daysThe problem is simple: Ukraine has no money and barely any economy. It's already talking to the IMF
According to Donetsk Republic's commissioner for human rights, the Ukrainian side did not hesitate to collect payments for transporting civilians from Debaltsevo to Slavyansk by bus
The ticker line saying "Obama considers arming pro-US troops" was kept on the screen for several minutes during a newscast devoted to Obama’s meeting with German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel
The German intelligence service estimates the real losses in the Ukrainian civil war at 50,000 dead (civilians and servicemen), which is nearly 10 times higher than reported by the Kiev authorities, German media report.
Poroshenko has already demonstrated «proofs» of Russian military involvement in Ukrainain conflict: in Davos he showed a piece of perforated yellow metall.
Ukrainian troops could only do not apply cassette shells, if the US provided them with the necessary weapons, said U.S. Senator John Sidney McCain at a press conference.
After a series of striking reversals that Ukraine’s forces have suffered in recent weeks, the Obama administration is taking a fresh look at the question of military aid
"We are in favour of peace talks, we demand that Kiev sits down at the negotiating table," the DPR and LPR leaders, Alexander Zakharchenko and Igor Plotnitsky, said in a joint statement
On Jan. 11, 2015, the Ukrainian website «GordonUA» published a rousing article (in Russian) with the suggestive title of «The Best Friends. The Countries Offering Assistance to Ukraine in 2014." Let’s read that document carefully.