Ukrainian soldier killed in violence in east
KIEV (Reuters) - A Ukrainian serviceman was killed and eight were wounded in attacks by pro-Russian separatists in the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian military said on Sunday, as both sides reported...
View ArticleFive soldiers killed in east, highest toll in two months: Ukraine military
KIEV (Reuters) - Five Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in the past 24 hours during fighting in the east of Ukraine, the Ukrainian military said on Saturday, its highest death toll since a fragile...
View ArticleOne killed in east Ukraine despite shaky truce
One person was killed and three others wounded Saturday as fresh clashes erupted in eastern Ukraine's rebel bastion of Donetsk, violating a ceasefire that had been holding for several weeks, separatist...
View ArticleFour Ukrainian soldiers killed as fighting tests truce
KIEV (Reuters) - Four Ukrainian servicemen have been killed and 14 wounded in fighting with pro-Russian rebels in the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian military said on Thursday, as a new wave of violence...
View ArticleFive soldiers killed in east, highest toll in two months - Ukraine military
KIEV (Reuters) - Five Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in the past 24 hours during fighting in the east of Ukraine, the Ukrainian military said on Saturday, its highest...
View ArticleUkraine military reports highest daily death toll since November
KIEV (Reuters) - Three Ukrainian servicemen have been killed and seven wounded in fighting with pro-Russian separatists in the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian military said on Tuesday, reporting the...
View Article7 Ukrainian soldiers killed in fighting with separatists
At least seven Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in an apparent upsurge in fighting in the east of the country, government officials have said. An armed conflict between government troops and...
View ArticleFears of new flareup in Ukraine as violence grows on frontline
It's been only two months since Yelena Krivonos has stopped sleeping in her cellar to hide from shelling, but now that violence has ticked up in eastern Ukraine she is headed back underground. "Combat...
View ArticleKiev completes arms pullout from eastern front: army
Ukraine's military said Saturday it has finished withdrawing its weapons from the eastern frontline with pro-Russia rebels, where clashes have erupted in recent days despite a ceasefire. Ukrainian...
View ArticleUkraine starts pull-back of tanks, light artillery in east - military
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine has started withdrawing tanks and light artillery from the frontline in the eastern region of Luhansk in line with an agreement with Russian-backed separatists, Kiev's military...
View Article7 Ukrainian Soldiers Killed By Pro-Russian Separatists
More Offensives launched by pro-Russian separatists in southeastern Ukraine Sunday and Monday have left seven Ukrainian soldiers dead and 14 wounded, Ukrainian government officials said Monday. The...
View ArticleThree Ukrainian soldiers killed in east despite truce
Three Ukrainian servicemen were killed and 15 wounded in the past 24 hours in fighting with pro-Russian separatists, the Ukrainian military said on Tuesday – the first major casualties since a...
View ArticleRebel shelling in east Ukraine kills three civilians, soldier - Ukraine military
KIEV (Reuters) - Three civilians have been killed by shelling by pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine's separatist eastern regions, the Ukrainian military said on Saturday, following a week of the deadliest...
View ArticleRebel shelling in east Ukraine kills three civilians, soldier: Ukraine military
KIEV (Reuters) - Three civilians have been killed by shelling by pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine's separatist eastern regions, the Ukrainian military said on Saturday, following a week of the deadliest...
View ArticleUkraine says could suspend arms withdrawals from east after rebel attacks
KIEV (Reuters) - The Ukrainian government will stop withdrawing light weapons from the frontline of its war against separatists in the east if the pro-Russian rebels continue to violate a ceasefire, a...
View ArticleUkraine Military Says 5 Soldiers Killed in East
Reuters KYIV, UKRAINE— Five Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in the past 24 hours during fighting in the east of Ukraine, the Ukrainian military said on Saturday, its...
View ArticleNolan Peterson: A Forgotten Corner of a Forgotten War
This article first appeared on The Daily Signal. TARAMCHUK, Ukraine—The war is always there, even if the shooting stops for a while. It is a quiet, overcast winter morning in the front-line village of...
View ArticleIn eastern Ukraine, troops tiptoeing up to front line risk heavy battles
By Pavel Polityuk and Alessandra Prentice AVDIYIVKA/KIEV March 24 (Reuters) - Ukrainian government troops and separatist fighters have drawn closer to each other at several places along the tense front...
View ArticleTranscript: Natalia Narochnitskaya on Putin's Russia
Russia is at war: Fighting beyond old Soviet borders, for the first time since its crushing defeat in Afghanistan; coming to the rescue of Bashar al-Assad's repressive regime; President Putin turned...
View ArticleOSCE reports rise in truce violations along Ukraine front lines
KIEV (Reuters) - International monitors in eastern Ukraine have reported a sharp increase in gunfire along front lines near the airport of the rebel-held city of Donetsk, a senior official with...
View ArticleUkraine fears 'big war' as Russia sends in more troops
Military authorities in Ukraine believe the number of Russian troops within and close to its borders has risen to more than 50,000, raising fears of a substantial escalation in the conflict raging in...
View ArticleFive Ukrainian soldiers, two rebels killed in separatist east
KIEV: Five Ukrainian soldiers and two rebel fighters have been killed in fresh clashes between government forces and pro-Russian separatists in the country's east, the military said on Sunday....
View ArticleCivilians and soldiers die in east Ukraine fighting, Putin in Crimea
By Richard Balmforth KIEV (Reuters) - Fighting flared between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed rebels in separate parts of eastern Ukraine overnight, killing at least two Ukrainian soldiers and...
View ArticleLandmine kills five Ukrainian soldiers in separatist east
KIEV Five Ukrainian servicemen were killed and three wounded by a landmine in the separatist Luhansk region, the Ukrainian military said on Sunday. Fighting between government troops and pro-Russian...
View ArticleThe missing: what have they done with our sons?
To lose a child in war is a nightmare. But when your quest to find them is met with lies, it’s a nightmare that never ends. Lily Hyde travels with the Ukrainian mothers seeking their sons...
View ArticleNolan Peterson: The Trench War Being Waged on Europe’s Doorstep
This article first appeared on The Daily Signal. On April 2, 1917, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson stood before a joint session of Congress, asking for a declaration of war against Germany so that the...
View ArticleUkraine crisis: Soldiers accuse commanders of lying as both warring sides...
Rebels and government soldiers in Ukraine have both accused their respective commanders of lying about one of the most significant battles to erupt on the front line in months. As violence continues to...
View ArticleMust They be Enemies? Russia, Putin and the US
Most Americans know very little about Russia, and what they do know is subverted by many decades of U.S. government anti-Soviet and anti-Russian propaganda. From 1917 to Dec. 26, 1991, when the USSR...
View ArticleEast Ukraine: on the frontline of Europe's forgotten war
After two years of fighting, every day continues to bring new casualties and many fear a new Russian-backed offensive...
View ArticleLeft Behind: Life in Purgatory on the Ukrainian Front Lines
Trade has slowly resumed between Kiev and Donetsk despite the ongoing trade embargo, but life for those who live on the frontlines in Ukraine remains difficult. And war could return to the region at...
View ArticleSix Ukrainian soldiers killed in troubled east
Six Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and over a dozen others injured in new clashes between government troops and pro-Russia forces in Ukraine’s troubled east. “In the past 24 hours, to our great...
View ArticleSituation in Eastern Ukraine Remains ‘Tense and Volatile’ Despite...
(Source: UN - United Nations) Delegations Stress Need to Implement Minsk Agreements in Full, End Widespread Human Rights Violations, Stabilize Humanitarian Situation Despite a reduction in clashes...
View ArticleWhy is there renewed tension in Ukraine?
(CNN)Tension is once again growing over Crimea, with Ukraine ordering its troops to be on the "highest level of combat readiness." The order came after Russia accused Ukraine on August 10 of launching...
View ArticleUkraine troops on high alert amid growing tension with Russia
(CNN)Ukraine is ordering its troops to be on the "highest level of combat readiness" Thursday, amid growing tensions with Russia over Crimea. The order comes after Russia accused Ukraine on Wednesday...
View ArticleVictims' families wait for justice a year after MH17 shot down in Ukraine
(CNN)A year has passed since Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over war-torn eastern Ukraine, killing on board. The disaster and its aftermath -- when armed men initially prevented...
View ArticleRival fighters in Ukraine are 'within shouting distance' in some places —...
A Ukrainian serviceman guards an area on that front line at the industrial zone of Avdiyivka. AVDIYIVKA/KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian government troops and separatist fighters have drawn closer to each...
View Article“You Don’t Exist”
Summary In April 2015, Vadim, 39, was traveling on a shuttle bus home to Donetsk, the capital of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic in eastern Ukraine. He had boarded in Slovyansk, which is...
View ArticleHow Putin Uses Fake News to Wage War on Ukraine
This article first appeared on the The Daily Signal. As the Russian shells and rockets rained down on them in the front-line town of Debaltseve in February 2015, Ukrainian troops began to receive...
View ArticleSoldier killed in east Ukraine, minister blames rogue group
KIEV (Reuters) - A Ukrainian serviceman was killed and two wounded in separatist eastern regions despite a ceasefire deal, Ukraine's defense minister said on Wednesday, suggesting a rogue group not...
View ArticleUkraine military reports highest deaths since November
Kiev: Three Ukrainian servicemen have been killed and seven wounded in fighting with pro-Russian separatists in the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian military said on Tuesday, reporting the highest daily...
View ArticlePutin’s Angels: the bikers battling for Russia in Ukraine
They were anarchic petrolheads and now they’re the Russian president’s henchmen: meet the Night Wolves, Moscow’s most infamous motorcycle gang...
View ArticleOn the front line of Europe’s forgotten war in Ukraine
Four years since Russia incited an uprising, Europe’s focus has moved on to Brexit, Isis and migration...
View ArticleUkraine's Cold War Gets Hot as Combat Explodes in the Last 24 Hours
The most intense Russian-backed fighting in six months has occurred within the last 24 hours. But it’s where the flare-out has taken place that matters. Monday morning saw some of the heaviest fighting...
View ArticleUkraine ceasefire: 'There is shooting all the time'
Skirmishes between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels continue despite a truce signed in February, giving little cause for hope of an end to the conflict...
View ArticleFighting in eastern Ukraine worst since February -OSCE
By Alessandra Prentice and Oleksandr Klymenko KIEV/NOVOLUHANSKE, Ukraine (Reuters) - Fighting in eastern Ukraine has escalated to the worst level in months, officials monitoring the conflict said on...
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