KIEV, Jan 31, 2015 (AFP) - Fighting between pro-Russian rebels and Ukrainian forces in the east of the country has left 15 government soldiers dead and 30 wounded over the past 24 hours, Ukraine's defence minister said Saturday.
WASHINGTON, January 31. /TASS/. US Secretary of State John Kerry is not planning to meet with the representatives of the eastern Ukrainian self-defence militias during his trip to the country next week, US Department of State Spokesperson Jen Psaki said on Friday.
MOSCOW, Jan 27, 2015 (AFP) - The UN said Monday that a rocket attack that killed 30 people in a city in eastern Ukraine deliberately targeted civilians, as Russian President Vladimir Putin spurned Western calls to rein in a pro-Moscow insurgency.
MOSCOW, Jan 26, 2015 (AFP) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that Moscow is working to promote contacts between Kiev and the pro-Russian separatists in the next few days.
NEW DELHI, Jan 25, 2015 (AFP) - US President Barack Obama expressed "deep concern" Sunday over ceasefire violations in Ukraine, after rocket strikes on a government-held port killed 30 people.
UNITED NATIONS, United States, Jan 25, 2015 (AFP) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned a deadly rocket attack in Ukraine's government-held port of Mariupol on Saturday and denounced "provocative statements" made by pro-Russian separatist fighters.
KIEV, Jan 21, 2015 (AFP) - Fighting between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels in Donetsk overnight in the country's east killed at least five civilians and wounded 29, officials said Wednesday ahead of high-stakes peace talks in Berlin.
Ukrainian authorities should initiate substantial talks on the country’s federalization and come to terms with the authorities of the self-proclaimed republics in the southeast of the country, Austrian President Heinz Fischer said.
MOSCOW, December 8. /TASS/. The goal of Washington’s sanctions is to create conditions for changing the regime in Russia, Deputy Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told Russia’s lower house of parliament on Monday.
MOSCOW, Nov 24, 2014 (AFP) - Russia is set to lose around $40 billion (32 billiUon euros) per year due to Western sanctions over the Ukraine conflict, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said Monday.
MOSCOW, November 19 (Sputnik) – Differences in opinion between Russia and the West have an objective character but Moscow is prepared to find compromises based on equal rights without blackmail or dictatorship, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday.
MOSCOW, November 19 (Sputnik) — Russia and Europe will both sustain losses should compromise between them not be reached, former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev said.
Political crisis in Ukraine, have created a high level of no confidence, and the world turned out to be on the threshold of a new Cold War, Foreign Minister of Belarus Vladimir Makei declared at a joint meeting of senior diplomats of the foreign ministries of Belarus and Russia on Tuesday.
was always "troubled and alarmed" to hear that Russia have special opportunities to solve definite world conflicts and viewed such statements as attempts to pass the responsibility on to Russia.
DONETSK, Ukraine, Nov 12, 2014 (AFP) - Heavy artillery fire on Wednesday rocked east Ukraine's main rebel bastion of Donetsk in the fiercest fighting around the city in days, an AFP journalist said.
DONETSK, Ukraine, Nov 09, 2014 (AFP) - Intense artillery fighting broke out early Sunday in the separatist bastion of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, according to AFP journalists in the area.
Tehran, YJC. -- The 2nd international forum of CIS commodity exchanges of CIS region and Eastern Europe in the form of union which is known as Interexchange Electronic Union (IEU) will be held on 15 and 16 of Nov 2014 in Tehran with the hostage of Iran Mercantile Exchange.
WASHINGTON, Oct 31, 2014 (AFP) - The United States on Friday welcomed a breakthrough deal between Kiev and Moscow to resolve their long conflict over energy supplies.
KIEV, Oct 26, 2014 (AFP) - Ukrainians strongly supported efforts to negotiate peace with pro-Russian rebels in Sunday's parliamentary election, President Petro Poroshenko said.
KIEV, Oct 26, 2014 (AFP) - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko made a surprise election day visit Sunday to the east of the country where troops are fighting against a pro-Russian insurgency.