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Train with bodies of MH17 crash reaches Kiev controlled area

MH17 flight recorder

The train carrying the bodies of those killed in the crash of flight MH17 is already in the city of Kharkiv, controlled by the government of Kiev. The convoy carrying the remains of the nearly 300 passengers in refrigerated wagons reached Tuesday morning, accompanied by a group of representatives of the OSCE, Malaysia and the […]

Nearly 200 bodies of victims of MH17 crash moved to Donetsk

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The Ukrainian government and the pro-Russian separatists in the self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Donetsk reached an agreement to remove the bodies of passengers who died last Thursday, when the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 was shot down by a missile. This Sunday five refrigeration wagons with the remains of the victims came from Torez, near the […]

Obama blames Russian complicity in downing of MH17

USA president Barack Obama

President Barack Obama increased pressure on his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, for his role in the crisis in Ukraine. U.S. said Russia is an accomplice in crash of a Malaysia Airlines jetliner on Thursday,  as the White House suspected that the pro-Russian rebels were responsible. Obama asked for time to determine the culprit of the […]

MH17 Tragedy: Search for culprits

Buk anti-aircraft missile system

Who brought down the Boeing 777 over the territory of the breakaway region of Donetsk in Ukraine? Who is responsible for the deaths of nearly 300 innocent people heading from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur? The image of a Lonely Planet Bali guide series, intact with its bright blue cover between the mutilated remains of the […]

Economic sanctions hit Ruble

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The new sanctions imposed by the U.S. and the European Union on Russia have been quick to take effect. The ruble depreciated Thursday to its lowest against the dollar since March, when Russia started operations in Crimea, and the bag was left Moscow 2.31% amid fears that Russian companies are facing problems of liquidity after […]

Moscow warns against United States sanctions

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Sanctions against Russia have a ” boomerang effect ” and have Russian- American relations to a “dead end,” said Thursday President Vladimir Putin reacting to the latest round of restrictions against key economic enterprises of the country, announced on Wednesday in Washington. The state oil company Rosneft, the gas company Novatek and Gazprombank Vneshekonombank and […]

Rebels allow access to area of Malaysian Airline plane crash

MH-17 crashed

A Boeing 777 of Malaysia Airlines, in transit from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, crashed on Thursday in the Ukrainian region of Donetsk, in the armed conflict between the central authorities in Kiev and pro-Russian independence insurgents. In the plane traveled 298 people, 283 passengers (including many children) and 15 crew members. They all perished in […]

Kiev accuses Moscow down one of its warplanes

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Kiev Thursday accused Russia of shooting down one of its warplanes, a Su -25 was conducting military operations in the east, forcing the pilot to bail out,  said Andrei Lysenko, spokesman of the Security Council national Defence and Ukrainian. “A warplane of the Russian Federation hit with a missile by a Su -25 Air Force […]

Two arrested for the accident in Moscow metro

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The Russian Federal Police have arrested Wednesday two technicians of the public company of the Moscow metro for Tuesday accident that left at least 21 dead and over 150 injured when a train derailed between two stations. Authorities accuse arrested were involved in an alleged breach of safety regulations, reported the official news agency Itar […]

At least 16 killed in subway accident in Moscow

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At least sixteen people were killed and over a hundred were injured as a result of an accident at rush hour on Tuesday morning on the subway in the Russian capital. Many of the injured were in critical condition at the clinics where they were receiving medical treatment. The accident occurred when three cars derailed […]

Separatists shoot down military aircraft in Ukraine

Ukraine military plane shot down

A Ukrainian military transport plane  An-26, that participated in the operation against the separatists in the east of the country, was shot down Monday in the Lugansk region, in the border with Russia, as confirmed by the rival parties, which differ on details, number of crew and apparatus circumstances of the incident. Another Ukrainian military […]

70,000 civilians leave Donetsk in a weekend

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The fear of a coming Ukrainian Army offensive is causing a real exodus in Donetsk, a stronghold of the pro-Russian rebels, whose inhabitants leave the city by thousands. This flight coincides with the worst fighting that has caused 30 deaths among the Ukrainian rows in the past 48 hours, 19 in a mortar attack made […]

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