Ukraine News One
East Ukraine Insurgency: Ukrainian army in fresh Slovyansk clashes with Kremlin-backed insurgents
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- East Ukraine Insurgency: Ukrainian army in fresh Slovyansk clashes with Kremlin-backed insurgents
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- 1:00
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- A military operation to oust armed separatists has been launched around Slovyansk and Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine. Both towns have been strongholds of Kremlin-backed rebels since unrest broke out in the region some two months ago. Witnesses say heavy fighting has taken place with armoured vehicles and military aircraft deployed, whilst several large blasts have been heard amid periodic volleys of gunfire.
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- King of Spain Abdicates: King Juan Carlos leaves Spanish throne to son Prince Felipe
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- 0:57
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- The King of Spain Juan Carlos has announced his plans to abdicate the Spanish crown to his son Prince Felipe. In a televised appearance he told Spaniards that a younger generation needed to face the country's current challenges.
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- The Donbas Battalion: Russian-speaking East Ukrainians defending homeland against Russian invasion
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- 1:22
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- More than 300 recruits for the pro-Ukrainian Donbas Battalion carried out training exercises with the country's National Guard at a base near Kyiv in preparation for deployment in the east.
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- Deadly Luhansk Explosion: Video evidence appears to contradict separatist airstrike claims
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- 0:55
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- A blast of unknown origin has struck an administrative building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk which is occupied by pro-Russian separatists.
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- Deadly Luhansk Explosion: Ukrainian officials reject insurgent claims of airstrike on separatist HQ
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- 1:02
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Kremlin Fake News Greatest Hits: Ukrainian channel produces 'Top 20' Russian infowar media lies
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- 1:25
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Getting caught spreading false news does not seem to discourage Russian media in the ferocious information war against Ukraine, with journalists from Ukraine's 'Channel 24 News' publishing a list of 20 of the most heinous lies Russian media sources have spread.
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- Russia Smoking Ban Expanded: Kremlin extends smoking ban to bars and restaurants
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- 1:06
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Russians hoping for some cleaner air are in luck as the country extends a smoking ban to restaurants, hotels, and bars as part of an effort to break the habit in one of the heaviest-smoking countries in the world.
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- Chechen Fighters in the Donbas: Separatists admit Chechnya troops have fought in insurgency
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- 2:24
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Insurgent leaders in eastern Ukraine say Chechen fighters are being sent back to Russia after the foreign forces were identified among the ranks of rebel militants operating in the Donbas region.
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- Sheep Contest 2014 World Cup Final: Farm animals play mock football World Cup in Colombia
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- 1:02
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Sheep in a small Colombian town have got themselves roped into playing a mock World Cup match. Residents of a rural town dressed their animals in the country's colours to play a football match against Brazil.
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- Chechen Fighters in Donetsk: Insurgents admit Chechen contingent fighting in anti-Ukraine uprising
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- 0:47
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Insurgent leaders in eastern Ukraine say Chechen fighters are being sent back to Russia after the foreign forces were identified among the ranks of rebel militants operating in the Donbas region.
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- Russia goes to UN over Ukraine: Kremlin accused of orchestrating East Ukraine insurgency
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- 0:58
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov says Moscow is submitting a draft resolution to the UN Security Council calling for an immediate end to violence in Ukraine and for a start to negotiations aimed at establishing a ceasefire.
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- Deadly Luhansk Explosion: Ukrainian army denies separatist claims of airstrike attack
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- 1:02
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Shin-kicking keeps traditions alive: Shin-kicking competition keeps traditions alive
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- 1:06
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- An English sporting event which dates back to 1612 has taken place in the rural town of Chipping Campden. The Cotswold Olimpicks, a collection of medieval sports, with the highlight being the shin-kicking competition, has been held for the 402nd time.
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- Klitschko won't use force to clear Maidan: New Kyiv Mayor seeks removal of iconic protest tent city
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- 1:54
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Newly elected mayor of Kyiv Vitaly Klitschko has said that force will not be used to dismantle barricades and clear people from Independence Square. The space, perhaps better known as Maidan, has been at the heart of Ukraine's protest movement.
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- Paris Arms Putin: France facing EU and US criticism for failing to cancel sale of warships to Russia
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- 1:20
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Activists in Kyiv held a rally oustide the French Embassy to protest a military hardware deal with Russia worth more than USD 1.6 billion.
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- Conchita Wurst stars at Vienna charity event: Eurovision winner a hit at 22nd annual Life Ball
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- 1:19
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Eurovision winner Conchita Wurst stole the show this year at the Life Ball in Vienna, Europe's biggest AIDS charity event. [7]
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- England team leaves for Brazil World Cup: English national squad heads to Miami training camp
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- 1:01
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- England's national football team left London's Luton airport for Miami for final preparations ahead of this month's World Cup in Brazil. England will play friendlies against Ecuador and Honduras in Miami this week before heading to Brazil ahead of their first game against Italy in Manaus on June 14.
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- Ukrainian troops defend Russian border: Kremlin-backed separatists attack Luhansk border post
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- 1:01
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- A fierce battle was underway in Ukraine's rebellious east after a pro-Russian militia attacked a Ukrainian border post with automatic weapons and grenade launchers in the early hours.
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- Roshen Chocolates Upset Donetsk Separatists: Crowd angered by President Poroshenko's sweet brand
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- 1:12
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Rebels in Ukraine's eastern city of Donetsk meant to bring a sweet surprise to children at a rally against the government in Kyiv, but the PR stunt didn't quite go as planned.
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- Abkhazia Ousts President: Early elections called in Kremlin-backed Georgian separatist state
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- 1:06
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- The parliament of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia will hold early presidential elections on August 24 following days of anti-government unrest. Members overwhemingly voted to oust President Alexander Ankvab in a move the province's prime minister labelled as 'revolutionary'.
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- Ukraine tops agenda for Obama Euro trip: US President seeks to unite EU against Russian threat
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- 1:17
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- US President Barack Obama will have an opportunity to explain the US commitment to countering Russian aggression against Ukraine, as well as reassure allies that the US will support them in times of crisis, as he prepares to travel across Europe with stops planned in Warsaw, Brussels, Paris, and Normandy this week.
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- OCSE Monitors Missing in East Ukraine: Kremlin-backed insurgents kidnap international observers
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- 1:04
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- A spokesman for the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) says talks are underway with groups in eastern Ukraine to release monitors who have been detained for days. A team of four OSCE operatives has been held in the Donetsk region since last Monday, while another four plus a Ukrainian translator were detained around the Luhansk region on Thursday.
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- Ukrainian Border HQ Under Attack: Hundreds of Kremlin-backed insurgents launch Luhansk offensive
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- 1:02
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Pro-Russian separatist insurgents have attacked a guard post at the Russian-Ukrainian border in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine. The heavily armed men, who used automatic weapons, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades, reportedly numbered as many as 500 at one point according to local reports.
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- Ukraine Border HQ Under Attack: Kremlin-backed insurgents launch major assault in Luhansk Oblast
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- 0:34
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Ukrainian border guards rebuffed attacks by armed pro-Russian separatists June 2 at a border post on the Russia-Ukraine border on the outskirts of the eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk.
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- World Cup Drug Bust: 578 kilos of cocaine bound for Brazil is seized in Peru jungle
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- 0:42
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Authorities in Peru say 578 kilograms of cocaine found in the jungle were destined for Brazil's upcoming World Cup.
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- EU Anti-Semitic Attack Arrest: French police detain Brussels Jewish Museum shooting suspect
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- 0:50
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- French police have arrested a man suspected of killing four people last week in the shooting at Brussels' Jewish Museum. The 29-year-old Frenchman was arrested in the southern French city of Marseilles and had a Kalashnikov and another gun with him. He has now been transferred to the headquarters of France's anti-terrorism forces following his arrest.
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- Russia targets foreign-funded media: new 'foreign agent' bill part of Kremlin war on media freedoms
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- 1:35
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- A group of lawmakers in Russia have proposed a bill that will force all media outlets which receive more than 25 percent of their funding from abroad to register as foreign agents. It's a move that resembles similar legislation passed in 2012 targeting non-governmental organisations. Widely condemned by human rights organisations, the authors of the current bill have amended a previously submitted measure in response to Ukraine's political crisis, which they have blamed on foreign-funded media.
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- Anti-Erdogan Protest Anniversary Clashes: Turkey marks one year since wave of park protests
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- 1:27
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Scores of protesters have clashed with police in Istanbul's Sultangazi district during an effort to mark the one year anniversary of the biggest anti-government protests in decades. Police fired teargas and water cannons to disperse protesters who responded by throwing stones and petrol bombs with two appeared to take aim at police with handguns.
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- Stone Age Syrians: Civilians displaced by anti-Assad conflict forced to live in caves
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- 1:17
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- In order to escape the constant shelling of their hometowns, many Syrians have escaped into the mountains, and caves where they live on a stretch of land measuring around 3 km.
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- Anti-Gay Insurgents Importing Russian Intolerance: Ukraine's LGBT community faces rising repression
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- 2:20
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Despite Russia's continuing crackdown on gay-rights, a small group of activists rallied in Moscow on May 31 to protest against Putin's 'anti-gay' propaganda laws. It wasn't long though before police dragged away two ladies holding rainbow-coloured flags from outside the city's mayoral office to a waiting police van.
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- Kyiv Maidan Rally: Mayor-elect Klitschko says Ukraine won't use force to clear iconic square
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- 0:56
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Vitaly Klitschko, a former world heavyweight boxing champion, who is set to become mayor of Kiev, said no force would be used to clear people from the city's Independence Square.Klitschko made the comments after addressing a crowd of around three thousand people rallying in the city's main square, as part of a 'People's Assembly' demonstration organised by activists. Some of the fighters that took to Independence Square earlier this year have already dismantled their tents and left, but some 1,000 people are still said to reside in the tents protected by barricades built around the square. Many of the tents are adorned with posters, flags, banners and photographs.
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- Who Sent Chechen Fighters to Ukraine? Putin ally Kadyrov denies sending troops to Donbas
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- 1:00
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- For the second time, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has denied sending fighters into Ukraine. The Moscow-backed leader earlier said that if Chechen fighters chose to go to Ukraine they had the right to do so, but did not say he sent them.
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- Putin's Far-Right EU Admirers: French nationalist Le Pen says she admires Putin and Merkel equally
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- 0:54
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Leader of France's far-right National Front, Marine Le Pen has said she admires Russian President Vladimir Putin just as much as she admires German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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- Ukraine Mourns Army General's Death: Major-General Serhiy Kulchytskiy killed in helicopter attack
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- 1:59
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Tributes are pouring in for Ukrainian Major-General Serhiy Kulchytskiy, killed along with 13 other comrades on May 29 after Kremlin-backed insurgents shot down their helicopter near Slovyansk. Friends and family gathered at Lviv's Lychakiv Cemetery to honour the 51-year-old who died on the frontline after pro-Russian fighters used a portable anti-aircraft missile to down the chopper carrying food supplies
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- Ukrainian Refugees Flee Violence in the East: Some citizens choose Crimea as temporary home
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- 1:29
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- As the Ukrainian government has vowed to press ahead with its campaign against Russian separatists, refugees from eastern Ukraine have started to arrive in the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula. Although the vast majority of Ukrainians who have decided to leave the unrest in the east have relocated to central and western Ukraine, some have decided to move to Crimea.
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- US soldier released by Taliban: US Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl freed in Afghanistan prisoner swap
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- 1:49
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- After being held by the Taliban for nearly five years in Afghanistan, US Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl is now on his way home. His release on Saturday was the result of years of on and off again negotiations that a senior U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said revived last November when the Taliban signalled it wanted to resume talks on prisoners.
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- Pope Prays for Ukraine: Pope Francis uses traditional Sunday message to pray for peace in Ukraine
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- 0:56
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Pope Francis renewed his appeal for peace in the Ukraine and the Central African Republic during his address to pilgrims gathered at St. Peter's Square on Sunday (June 1).
The Pope said, "With a grieving heart, I pray for the victims of the tensions that still continue in some regions of Ukraine, as well as in the Central African Republic. I renew my heartfelt appeal to all parties involved, that they will overcome all misunderstandings and with patience they will seek dialogue and reconciliation,"
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- Ukraine calls on Russia to recognise election: President Poroshenko secured landslide vote victory
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- 1:06
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Ukraine is demanding that Russia recognise the results of its presidential election. Ukraine's acting foreign minister wrote an opinion piece in the Ukrainian weekly Kyiv Post saying, 'there has been no official recognition yet' from Moscow and that Russia was trying to do everything in its power to destabilize Ukraine. Many Western leaders have already congratulated Ukraine's new president, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US President Barack Obama who is due to meet Ukraine's president-elect next week.
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- Kyiv Cleans Up Maidan Protest Camp: Tents pulled down but not all protesters want to go home
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- 1:02
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Clean up on Kyiv's central square, the Maidan, has begun. Bulldozers pushed the rubble aside and street sweepers started to clean the pavement that has been lined with the tents of protesters since last November. Earlier this week, Kyiv's mayor-elect Vitaly Klitschko said it was finally time to clean up the Maidan after the country held elections and accomplished the chief demand of the protesters.
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- Brazil World Cup Graffiti Protest: Brazilian street artists express opposition to World Cup costs
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- 2:28
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Brazil's graffiti artists have been using their work to express discontent with the World Cup, less than two weeks before the football tournament kicks off. This is Roma; just one of the spray painters in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Locally known for implanting political messages into his works, he says his art aims to mobilise the population to stand up against the billions of dollars spent, despite widespread social inequality and poor public services.
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- Chechen Fighters in Ukraine: Vostok Battalion taking control of anti-Ukraine Donbas insurgency
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- 2:34
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- A new force has rolled into Ukraine's eastern regions, and it has Ukrainians and pro-Russian separatists worried. The Vostok Battalion from Russia's volatile North Caucasus region of Chechnya arrived on May 25 to the cheers of hundreds of locals in Donetsk while firing their bullets into the air and openly admitting their identity.
If the Vostok Battalion is still answering to the Kremlin, then these Chechen fighters in Ukraine could be on a mission to take the industrialised east, known as the Donbas, under their control after infighting between pro-Russian separatists threatened to destabilize the separatist movement.
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- Americans Trade Guns For Gifts: LA Mayor Eric Garcetti promotes gun buyback programme
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- 1:01
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, has said the city will continue with its gun buyback programme despite very few people deciding to exchange their guns for gift cards.
The citywide Gun Buyback program, which began in 2009, is an initiative where citizens are rewarded for the voluntary surrender of firearms, with the city giving a USD 200 gift card in exchange for every assault weapon while USD 100 gift card for hand guns, shotguns and rifles
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- Deadly Japanese Heatwave: Japan heatwave kills two and hospitalises hundreds
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- 0:56
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- A heatwave sweeping Japan has claimed at least two lives and 300 people were admitted to hospital with suspected heatstroke. Temperatures are expected to top 35 degrees Celsius in parts of the country, and hit 33 degrees in central Tokyo.
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- Battle For Donetsk Airport: Ukrainian troops repel two fresh attacks by Chechen and Russian fighters
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- 1:03
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Ukraine's military have repelled Russian-backed insurgents twice following their attempts to seize Donetsk International Airport on Saturday. No Ukrainian counterterrorism forces were injured in the early morning ambush, according to a military spokesman. The attacks occurred just five days after Ukrainian forces flushed out dozens of well-armed Chechen fighters from the airport during a major operation to retake the territory
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- Ukraine Mourns Hero General: Sergiy Kulchytskiy died fighting Kremlin-backed insurgents in Donbas
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- 0:51
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Mourners have gathered in the western Ukrainian city Lviv to remember the life of General Sergiy Kulchytskiy who was killed when pro-Russian separatists shot down a Ukrainian army helicopter near the town of Slovyansk on Thursday. Thirteen soldiers were also killed as Ukrainian government forces pressed ahead with an offensive to crush rebellions in the east following the election of a president Petro Poroshenko.
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- Russia and NATO to hold talks: 2 June meeting will be first contact since Kremlin Crimean invasion
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- 2:15
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Top level officials from NATO and Russia are to meet on June 2, the first exchange since Russia invaded Ukraine's Crimean peninsula in late February. The deteriorating situation in Ukraine's two easternmost regions is likely to be high on the agenda.
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- Ukraine Cleans Up Maidan: Some activist anger over moves to clear iconic Kyiv protest camp
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- 0:59
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Protesters camped out in central Kyiv have set fire to tyres at barricades leading to Independence Square, resisting city authorities' attempts to clear the area occupied since last November during the uprising against former President Viktor Yanukovych.
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- Ukrainian TV Prankster Sentenced in USA: Vitali Sediuk gets community service for slapping Brad Pitt
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- 1:14
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- A notorious Ukrainian prankster who hit actor Brad Pitt in the face during the Los Angeles premier of Disney film Maleficent has been sentenced in California after accepting two charges of battery and unlawful activity.
Vitalii Sediuk, a 25-year-old Ukrainian TV personality, infamous for pulling pranks on celebrities at events, was sentenced to 20 days of community service and 36 months on probation. He's also ordered to stay no less than 460 meters away from all celebrity events including awards shows and premieres, and to stay away from Pitt and his partner Angelina Jolie, according to a LA City Attorney spokesman.
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- Kremlin Crackdown in Crimea: Russia charges Ukrainian filmmaker with planning terrorist attack
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- 1:58
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Oleg Sentsov was arrested earlier this month in Crimea where the human rights situation is rapidly deteriorating, and now he's been charged by Russia with planning a terrorist attack.
Russia's Federal Security Service has accused Sentsov of being a member of Ukrainian right-wing group, Pravey Sector, adding that he was in possession of explosives, firearms and nationalist paraphernalia.
The German film group funding Sentsov's project says the filmmaker's only 'crime' was that he opposed Russia's annexation of Crimea.
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- Poroshenko to meet Obama in Poland: President Poroshenko will also attend D-Day anniversary
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- 0:58
- Date posted
- 12 years ago
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- Ukraine's president-elect Petro Poroshenko will meet US President Barack Obama in Poland on Wednesday as part of a European visit aimed at deescalating the crisis which has plagued Ukraine in recent months. The visit, Poroshenko's first abroad since winning the May 25 election, comes as the Ukrainian government works towards further integrating with the EU, with a possible trade deal already on the table within the next few weeks.
