Pentagon's new chief, Ashton Carter, said on Sunday he has not yet given any recommendations for President Barack Obama on whether Washington should send lethal arms to the Kiev authorities.
A comprehensive ceasefire is of crucial importance, the German government is worried that it is not seen yet, German government spokesman Steffen Seibert says
Basurin said that the Ukrainian side had been delivering indiscriminate barraging fire in the areas around the townships of Vidnoye and Opytnoye since Wednesday afternoon
BBC reporter runs from incoming Ukrainian artillery, but calls it "outgoing rebel shelling".
Apparently in the Western media, you should not believe your own eyes or reason—out is in, up is down, and left is right.
Hundreds of Ukrainian troops had surrendered to DPR militias over the past 24 hours, a spokesman for the defense ministry of Donetsk People’s Republic says
Donetsk and Luhansk military units control the railway terminal and Debaltsevo’s eastern outskirts, but this is not in any way the larger part of the town, DPR defense ministry representative says
Earlier on Sunday, speaker of the General Staff Vladislav Seleznev said firing at positions of the Ukrainian military has not been registered since 3 a.m
The ticker line saying "Obama considers arming pro-US troops" was kept on the screen for several minutes during a newscast devoted to Obama’s meeting with German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel
The Ukrainian refugees, whose number has been practically unchanged compared with the previous week, are being provided with food and medical care, as well as information services
The German intelligence service estimates the real losses in the Ukrainian civil war at 50,000 dead (civilians and servicemen), which is nearly 10 times higher than reported by the Kiev authorities, German media report.
"We are in favour of peace talks, we demand that Kiev sits down at the negotiating table," the DPR and LPR leaders, Alexander Zakharchenko and Igor Plotnitsky, said in a joint statement
RF Foreign Ministry Head Sergey Lavrov said that "some Russia's partners" follow the same scheme: after each accident in Donbass they point blaming finger at the militia forces or Russia.