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.
Poroshenko has already demonstrated «proofs» of Russian military involvement in Ukrainain conflict: in Davos he showed a piece of perforated yellow metall.
Ukrainian troops could only do not apply cassette shells, if the US provided them with the necessary weapons, said U.S. Senator John Sidney McCain at a press conference.
After a series of striking reversals that Ukraine’s forces have suffered in recent weeks, the Obama administration is taking a fresh look at the question of military aid
"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.
Paramilitary units of the ultranationalist Right Sector movement have refused to come under the command of Ukraine’s Defense Ministry, President Petro Poroshenko’s aid told national TV.