11:29
30.5.2014
10:38
30.5.2014
Latest from Crimea, from our news desk:
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) says four members of Ukraine’s radical nationalist group Right Sector have been apprehended in Crimea.
According to an FSB statement on May 30, the four men -- identified only as Sentsov, Afanasyev, Chyrnya, and Kolchenko -- are suspected of planning terrorist attacks in Simferopol, Yalta, and Sevastopol.
The FSB statement said the suspects will be charged with terrorism. No more details were given.
Meanwhile, Ukraine's Foreign Ministry said earlier this week that noted filmmaker Oleh Sentsov and two other unnamed Ukrainian nationals had been detained by Russian authorities in Crimea.
The Foreign Ministry said Sentsov had been transferred to a Moscow detention center.
Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in March through a controversial referendum that was condemned as illegal by the United States, European Union, and the UN General Assembly. (ITAR-TASS, Interfax and UNIAN)
According to an FSB statement on May 30, the four men -- identified only as Sentsov, Afanasyev, Chyrnya, and Kolchenko -- are suspected of planning terrorist attacks in Simferopol, Yalta, and Sevastopol.
The FSB statement said the suspects will be charged with terrorism. No more details were given.
Meanwhile, Ukraine's Foreign Ministry said earlier this week that noted filmmaker Oleh Sentsov and two other unnamed Ukrainian nationals had been detained by Russian authorities in Crimea.
The Foreign Ministry said Sentsov had been transferred to a Moscow detention center.
Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in March through a controversial referendum that was condemned as illegal by the United States, European Union, and the UN General Assembly. (ITAR-TASS, Interfax and UNIAN)
10:30
30.5.2014
10:27
30.5.2014
Expanding on the initial report from our news desk:
Ukraine's acting defense minister says government forces have "completely cleared" pro-Russian rebels from parts of the separatist east and will press on with an offensive until peace and order have been restored.
Mykhaylo Koval was speaking to reporters in Kyiv on May 30, one day after 14 government troops, including a general, were killed when rebels shot down an army helicopter.
"Our armed forces have completed their assigned missions and completely cleared the southern and western parts of the Donetsk region and the northern part of the Luhansk region from the separatists," Koval said.
"Our given task is to bring peace and order to the region," he added.
Koval also repeated charges that Russia was carrying out "special operations" in eastern Ukraine.
He said Ukrainian forces would continue with military operations in border areas "until these regions begin to live normally, until there is peace." (Reuters and AFP)
Mykhaylo Koval was speaking to reporters in Kyiv on May 30, one day after 14 government troops, including a general, were killed when rebels shot down an army helicopter.
"Our armed forces have completed their assigned missions and completely cleared the southern and western parts of the Donetsk region and the northern part of the Luhansk region from the separatists," Koval said.
"Our given task is to bring peace and order to the region," he added.
Koval also repeated charges that Russia was carrying out "special operations" in eastern Ukraine.
He said Ukrainian forces would continue with military operations in border areas "until these regions begin to live normally, until there is peace." (Reuters and AFP)
10:20
30.5.2014
This is purportedly the supermarket looted by the separatists in Donetsk that led the Vostok Battalion to evict them from their HQ in the regional administration building.
09:53
30.5.2014
LATEST from our news desk:
Ukraine's acting defense minister says forces will press ahead with a military offensive against rebels in the east until peace and order have been restored.
08:49
30.5.2014
08:16
30.5.2014
This adds to the one team of OSCE monitors already being held in Donetsk.
08:03
30.5.2014
"The New York Times" on yesterday's "coup" in Donetsk:
07:45
30.5.2014