Russia on Tuesday rejected allegations that it sponsors terrorism by funneling arms and money to separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine and is also responsible for discriminating against ethnic groups in Crimea.
Disregard of the parties to the Ukrainian conflict for the rules of international humanitarian law infringes on the living conditions of civilians on both sides of the contact line, with people being deprived of basic rights, a report issued Thursday by OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine said.
The amount of combat casualties of Ukrainian servicemen in Donbass in 2016 amounted to 211, non-combat – to 256, according to official statement of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
(dpa) - NATO calls on Moscow to cease its support for pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine and abide by its international agreements following a deadly offensive on the city of Mariupol.
MOSCOW, March 18, 2015 (AFP) - Russia on Wednesday condemned Ukraine for ratifying two bills on greater autonomy for the rebel-held east, saying they "grossly violated" a fragile peace deal to end almost a year of fighting.
VLADIVOSTOK, March 15. /TASS/. Organisers of the coup in Kiev in 2014 planned assassination of Viktor Yanukovich, the then President of Ukraine, Russia's President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday.
PARIS (Sputnik) – France has no plans of sending military instructors or delivering equipment to Ukraine as opposed to Great Britain, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Wednesday.
MOSCOW, February 25. /TASS/. The Defence Ministry of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic has reported no ceasefire violations last night, a ministry spokesman said on Wednesday.
DONETSK, February 24. /TASS/. Militias of the self-proclaimed Donetsk people's republic on Tuesday morning started a full-scale heavy weaponry withdrawal from the separation line, the DPR's Defence Ministry spokesman, Eduard Basurin, said.
KIEV, Feb 22, 2015 (AFP) - Both sides in Ukraine's conflict have agreed to pull back their heavy weapons from the front line in accordance with a UN-backed truce, a Ukrainian military official told AFP on Sunday.
(AFP) - The US has accused Russian forces and separatist rebels of violating the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine, after fierce fighting around the strategic town of Debaltseve threatened the latest attempt to end the bloody 10-month conflict.
KIEV, Feb 15 (Reuters) - The Ukrainian military said on Sunday a ceasefire between government troops and pro-Russian separatists in east Ukraine is being observed "in general" and that rebel attacks are infrequent and not widespread.
UNITED NATIONS, February 10. /TASS/. The United Nations has called for urgently declaring a ceasefire in the east of Ukraine, which will allow evacuating civilians from the conflict zone and delivering food and medicine there, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) said in a report.
BEIJING, February 9. /TASS/. China is against Washington's plans to provide Ukraine with weapons, the country's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said on Monday.
Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s far-right National Front party, says the EU is to blame for the crisis in Ukraine as it forced the situation where Kiev had to choose between East and West.
BERLIN, Feb 8, 2015 (AFP) - A summit between France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine is being planned for Wednesday in Minsk in an effort to halt escalating violence in eastern Ukraine, Berlin said.
Berlin (dpa) - German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier says Russia-Ukraine talks produced "discernible progress" over the withdrawal of heavy weapons from September's ceasefire demarcation line in eastern Ukraine.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) —Assistant to the US president and Deputy National Security Advisor claims that injecting more weapons is not the way to end the Ukrainian crisis.
DONETSK, Ukraine, Feb 2, 2015 (AFP) - The pro-Russian separatist leader in eastern Ukraine's rebel hub of Donetsk vowed Monday to mobilise 100,000 fighters for their latest offensive against Kiev forces.