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Ukrainian forces reclaim critical border crossing

July 3, 2014July 3, 2014 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

Dozens of spent bullet cartridges strewn across pavement scarred by the tracks of armored vehicles. A café and auto body

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Major casualties on both sides as fierce fighting continues in eastern Ukraine

July 2, 2014July 2, 2014 The Kyiv Post Ukraine

At least five Ukrainian soldiers and hundreds of separatists have been killed in the past 24 hours, according to Ukraine’s

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Living without Russian gas: Hard, but possible

June 26, 2014May 10, 2024 The Kyiv Post energy, Russia, Ukraine

Since Russia’s Gazprom cut the gas supplies to Ukraine on June 16, the government has been intensively looking for the

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Eleven Ukrainian servicemen killed as gunmen down helicopter, attack checkpoint near Sloviansk

June 25, 2014 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

Using surface-to-air missiles, pro-Russian insurgents shot down a Ukrainian military helicopter near Sloviansk late on June 24, breaking a ceasefire

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Ukraine’s president talks peace plan to the nation

June 22, 2014 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko made a televised address to the nation on June 21, in which he discussed his 14-point peace

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Ukraine: Donetsk streets mostly deserted as separatists lose support

June 19, 2014 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

As separatists seize more buildings in Donetsk, the streets of the eastern Ukrainian city of more than 1 million people

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Poroshenko: Ukraine ‘is in a state of war’

June 18, 2014 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

Speaking at the National University of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s graduation on June 18, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called for

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Westinghouse chips away at Russian nuclear fuel monopoly in Ukraine

June 18, 2014 The Kyiv Post energy, Russia, Ukraine

During a routine inspection of the Yuzhnoukrainsk nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine’s Mykolaiv Oblast in 2012, the State Inspectorate

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Deadliest day for Ukraine in Kremlin-backed separatist war spurs outrage

June 14, 2014 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

June 14 marks the deadliest day of the undeclared war between Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists in the country’s eastern regions

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