Heavily armed pro-Russian gunmen on Monday seized another town in east Ukraine, storming the town hall in Kostyantynivka and setting up barricades, an AFP journalist saw.
Ukraine's new President Petro Poroshenko announced on Wednesday that he would soon order a unilateral ceasefire in the separatist east to help end the 10-week pro-Russian insurgency.
Russia awaits for Ukraine's President Pyotr Poroshenko to stop the military operation in the country's east and to facilitate a peaceful settlement of the conflict, Russian Ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Zurabov said after Poroshenko's inauguration on Saturday.
MOSCOW, Sept 01, 2014 (AFP) - Moscow and Kiev representatives will meet in Minsk Monday after Russian President Vladimir Putin raised the stakes in the Ukraine conflict by calling for statehood to be discussed for the restive east of the former Soviet state.
Oslo, Nov 7: "Israel's recent announcement that it will continue to build new settlements in East Jerusalem is completely unacceptable" said Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Børge Brende.
Ukraine's new Western-backed president on Friday declared a week-long unilateral ceasefire and unveiled a sweeping plan for curbing a pro-Russian insurgency that killed 13 more soldiers in fierce clashes in the eastern rustbelt.
Global oil prices fell on Tuesday on easing fears about supplies from the crude-rich Middle East, eclipsing bright data from Europe and China, analysts said.
US Secretary of State John Kerry warned Russia Saturday of "additional consequences" if it fails to pull its troops back from the Ukraine border, as Kiev accused Moscow of aggression in its restive east.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin warned that Ukraine is on the verge of civil war, the Kremlin said Wednesday, after the Kiev government sent in troops against pro-Moscow separatists in the east of the country.
All necessary emergency situation units were formed in the Russian Republic of Crimea, advanced training courses were provided for emergency workers and reequipping of technicians was launched, Russian Minister of Emergency Situations Vladimir Puchkov said in this Russian Far East city on Tuesday.
Ukraine's prime minister voiced outrage at reports that masked men in east Ukraine's main city handed out leaflets demanding Jews register or be expelled, NBC News reported Saturday.
MOSCOW, Sept 23, 2014 (AFP) - The prime minister of the self-proclaimed People's Republic of Donetsk said Tuesday that rebels have removed artillery from frontline areas where Ukraine had also withdrawn, in line with a peace plan signed Saturday.
Ukraine needs a government of national unity that reaches out to its own people and tackles the country's long overdue reforms; both Russia and Western powers should back a vision for the country as a bridge between East and West, not a geopolitical battleground.
Two Chinese coastguard ships sailed into disputed waters off Japan-administered islands in the East China Sea Saturday, officials said, as the United States warned Beijing over increasing territorial assertiveness.
MOSCOW, September 1 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday called NATO's permanent plans in favour of enlarging to the east and closely advancing to the Russian borders "absolutely provocative".