Graham Phillips said he was ashamed of UK position regarding events in Donbass adding that he was doing as much as he can to correctly represent his country
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
Donetsk and Luhansk military units control the railway terminal and Debaltsevo’s eastern outskirts, but this is not in any way the larger part of the town, DPR defense ministry representative says
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 Ukrainian refugees, whose number has been practically unchanged compared with the previous week, are being provided with food and medical care, as well as information services
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.
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.
"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
RF Foreign Ministry Head Sergey Lavrov said that "some Russia's partners" follow the same scheme: after each accident in Donbass they point blaming finger at the militia forces or Russia.