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Protesters thwart Kyiv city government attempts to clear Maidan

August 7, 2014August 7, 2014 The Kyiv Post Ukraine

Protesters are resisting the most serious attempt yet to clean up Maidan, or Independence Square, since the EuroMaidan revolution ended

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Analysts: Putin unfazed by tougher sanctions

August 1, 2014 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

The European Union on July 29 agreed to more severe sanctions against Russia in response to its continued promotion of

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Ukrainian official: Black boxes show MH17 was downed by ‘massive, explosive decompression’ from shrapnel

July 29, 2014 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

Ukrainian security service spokesman Andrei Lysenko said on July 28 that data recorders recovered from Malaysia Airlines flight 17 show

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Ukraine votes third call-up of military reservists

July 22, 2014 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

Additional reservists will be called up to reinforce servicemen fighting Kremlin-backed mercenaries and their proxies in eastern Ukraine after parliament

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Kremlin-backed rebels hand over MH17 black boxes to Malaysia

July 22, 2014July 22, 2014 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

It took nearly five days and hours of negotiations late into the night, but Russia-backed rebels ceded some ground and

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Civilians killed as Ukrainian forces tighten noose on rebels in Donetsk

July 21, 2014 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

DONETSK, Ukraine – Heavy fighting broke out in this regional capital on July 21, with Ukrainian government forces and Kremlin-backed

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Questions linger, as the train with Boeing crash victims’ bodies is set to depart

July 20, 2014 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

After more than two days exposed to the elements in the fields where they met their death, the corpses of

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Russian-backed separatists in possession of flight recorders, seek to hide evidence

July 20, 2014 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

Militant groups of self-proclaimed Donbas People’s Republic might already be in possession of at least two Malaysia Airlines Boeing’s flight

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Russia-backed separatists hamper international investigation of flight MH17 crash site

July 20, 2014July 22, 2014 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

More than two days after Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was purportedly shot down by a surface-to-air rocket in war-torn eastern

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