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UNHCR
April 28, 2018
Close to the front line of the conflict in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, mother of three Marina Baban has been forced to move house twice to escape the bombs.
UNIAN
April 27, 2018
Five Ukrainian soldiers were wounded amid 52 enemy attacks in Donbas, eastern Ukraine, in the past day. "Three Ukrainian soldiers were wounded in action, another two sustained combat-related injuries," the press center of the headquarters of Ukraine's military operations reported on Facebook onÃÂ ...
UNIAN
April 26, 2018
Several Kazakh citizens have been tried and convicted on charges related to the war in eastern Ukraine, including joining the Russia-backed militants and inciting ethnic hatred by discussing the conflict on the Internet. UNIAN memo. After the annexation of Crimea by Russia in March 2014, Ukraine's eastÃÂ ...
Reliefweb
April 26, 2018
KYIV/DONETSK, 21 April 2018 - A UNICEF convoy carrying essential humanitarian supplies has reached the non-government-controlled areas of Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, with the support of the Government of Switzerland. The UNICEF supply convoy delivered 28 metric tons of essential hygieneÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
April 25, 2018
QARAGHANDY, Kazakhstan -- The trial of a Kazakh citizen who fought alongside Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine has started in Kazakhstan's central city of Qaraghandy. The 31-year-old defendant, whose identity the court ordered not to be released by media, pleaded guilty to "participation inÃÂ ...
UNIAN
April 19, 2018
Ensuring security and improving the work of checkpoints in eastern Ukraine remains an urgent topic for the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) on Ukraine, the special representative of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said Wednesday. Martin Sajdik, a member of the TCG, toldÃÂ ...
ReliefWeb
April 19, 2018
Yesterday, the Donetsk Filter Station in Ukraine stopped its operations after five of its employees were shot and injured on 17 April. The Station's operations will likely remain suspended until guarantees for the safety of its personnel from parties to the conflict are received. This is not the first incident at theÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
April 12, 2018
KYIV – Ukrainian police say a missing family of four has been killed in an antitank mine explosion near the front line in the eastern region of Luhansk, an area the United Nations has called one of the most mine-contaminated places on Earth. Police officers discovered the bodies of a couple -- both man andÃÂ ...
ERR News
March 31, 2018
ERR's Ainar Ruussaar traveled to Eastern Ukraine in February this year as part of a training program for local journalists. In the fourth and last article of his series, Ruussaar talks about an aspect of Ukrainian life that has decisively affected the country's fate as well as its reputation: corruption. We all stealÃÂ ...
euronews
March 29, 2018
“Can you see that shell crater near the house over there? That's where it happened.” Vasylyna Nikolaeva, a local official in a frontline village in eastern Ukrainian, points into the distance. Among the countless stories of terror and loss from the conflict in eastern Ukraine, this is one that stands out. The tells ofÃÂ ...
TRT World
March 22, 2018
Savchenko was captured on the frontline in eastern Ukraine by pro-Russian separatists in 2014 and held in jail in Russia on murder charges that she said were fabricated. She became a symbol of resistance against Russia to many Ukrainians. Since her return she has held talks with the separatists withoutÃÂ ...
Ukrinform. Ukraine and world news
March 22, 2018
No ceasefire violations recorded in eastern Ukraine in last day. 22.03.2018 09:23. 197. Ukrinform. The truce in the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) area in Donbas was fully observed over the past day. "The ceasefire established on March 5, as agreed by the Trilateral Contact Group, was fully observed over the past day.
War on the Rocks
March 21, 2018
These events inspired a similar “Russian spring” in eastern Ukraine, which posed an even greater threat to the sovereignty of Ukrainian territory, and perhaps the existence of Ukraine itself. The massive Russian military exercises across the border only heightened the sense of threat. According to MinisterÃÂ ...
ReliefWeb
March 21, 2018
With its large windows, piles of textbooks and photos on the wall, classroom 10A at #10 Toretsk secondary school looks like any other in Ukraine. However, just two years ago, the bell here rang not only for classes but for immediate evacuation to a bomb shelter. In the space of just one year, between 2014ÃÂ ...
Ukrinform. Ukraine and world news
March 8, 2018
OSCE records nearly 80 explosions in eastern Ukraine. 08.03.2018 13:42. 186. Ukrinform. The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (OSCE SMM) to Ukraine has recorded 79 explosions in Donbas between 19.30 on March 5 and 19.30 on March 6, according to the organization's report for March 7. "In Donetsk region, the SMMÃÂ ...
Irish Times
March 8, 2018
Ukraine is to seize assets belonging to Russian state-controlled energy giant Gazprom in a deepening legal dispute that has stoked fears of supply disruption among EU states. Gazprom scrapped plans to resume gas flow to Ukraine last week after a Stockholm arbitration court ruled that it should pay $2.56ÃÂ ...
UNIAN
March 7, 2018
... launch its first formal military campaign against Russian proxies who had seized government buildings in towns and cities across eastern Ukraine. Less than a month later, "separatists" in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk declared independence following globally unrecognized referendums.
TASS
March 6, 2018
MOSCOW, March 6. /TASS/. Russia's position on deploying international missions in Eastern Ukraine remains unchanged, it is impossible without the consent of the republics of Donbass, according to Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov. "Russia's stance is absolutely unwavering and known. The mainÃÂ ...
LobeLog
March 6, 2018
The armed conflict in eastern Ukraine, now entering its fifth year, has exhausted the local population. Civilians are hostages to a lack of political will, says a top official from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. They are also, he argues, the solution. Speaking March 5 at Harvard's DavisÃÂ ...
Atlantic Council (blog)
March 6, 2018
Oleksiy Kanarskyy, a twenty-five-year old Ukrainian, never thought he would celebrate January 1 in freedom. His hopes had faded during three years of detention in the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine, after endless promises of a prisoners' exchange between the Ukrainian government and Russian-backedÃÂ ...
UNDP (blog)
March 3, 2018
The violence in eastern Ukraine has caused total disruption, killing 10,000 people and displacing a further 1.6 million. But it has also struck the heart of the Ukrainian economy, eliminating one million jobs by the Spring of 2016, and reducing bridges, factories and clinics to rubble, with recovery costs at thatÃÂ ...
PBS NewsHour
February 27, 2018
In Eastern Ukraine, children still go to school and play, but the intrusion of violence into their everyday lives has made them the vulnerable victims of a war that's about to enter its fourth year. Special correspondent Sebastian Meyer went on assignment for UNICEF for a look at the lives of children living onÃÂ ...
euronews
December 31, 1999
Communities at the heart of the conflict in eastern Ukraine are facing down hardship with remarkable resilience. Armed with her camera, Euronews' Nataliia Liubchenkova travelled to Donetsk finding yoga classes for pensioners and sheep shearing for tourists. Now Reading: From the front line: rebuildingÃÂ ...
ERR News
December 31, 1999
ERR's Ainar Ruussaar traveled to Eastern Ukraine in February as part of a training program for local journalists. This is the second of his four-part report on his trip, in which he talks about his journey from Tallinn to Mariupol. ERR News is publishing Ruussaar's account of the situation in the area over theÃÂ ...
UNIAN
December 31, 1999
"Spring is a time for renewal, and with this recommitment, there is an opportunity to renew the process outlined in the Minsk agreements and allow the civilian population in eastern Ukraine to once again live in peace," Ambassador Apakan said. "Recommitment, however, needs to be matched by concreteÃÂ ...
UNDP (blog)
December 31, 1999
The violence in eastern Ukraine has caused total disruption, killing 10,000 people and displacing a further 1.6 million. But it has also struck the heart of the Ukrainian economy, eliminating one million jobs by the Spring of 2016, and reducing bridges, factories and clinics to rubble, with recovery costs at thatÃÂ ...
