07:24
22.5.2014
Reports coming in of fighting in eastern Ukraine, especially around Luhansk:
08:14
22.5.2014
Russia ending its "exercises" on the Ukrainian border, it says:
08:16
22.5.2014
The infamous "Russian colonel" commanding separatist armed forces in eastern Ukraine is charged by Kyiv authorities:
08:16
22.5.2014
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22.5.2014
08:21
22.5.2014
According to "The New York Times," rifts are emerging between separatist camps in the eastern cities of Donetsk and Slovyansk.
Vyacheslav Ponomaryov, the self-declared mayor of the city of Slovyansk, where Ukrainian troops and anti-Kiev militias have engaged in sporadic fighting for several weeks, said that there was no contact between him and the new republic’s government and suggested he could order the city’s paramilitary groups to “restore order” in Donetsk.
“We are here fighting, and they are sitting around stuffing themselves,” Mr. Ponomaryov said by telephone from the city, which has been surrounded by Ukrainian military checkpoints and is in a region where shelling and shootouts have occurred in recent weeks. “It’s not a difference of opinion,” he said. “We have fundamentally opposing views.”
Vyacheslav Ponomaryov, the self-declared mayor of the city of Slovyansk, where Ukrainian troops and anti-Kiev militias have engaged in sporadic fighting for several weeks, said that there was no contact between him and the new republic’s government and suggested he could order the city’s paramilitary groups to “restore order” in Donetsk.
“We are here fighting, and they are sitting around stuffing themselves,” Mr. Ponomaryov said by telephone from the city, which has been surrounded by Ukrainian military checkpoints and is in a region where shelling and shootouts have occurred in recent weeks. “It’s not a difference of opinion,” he said. “We have fundamentally opposing views.”
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22.5.2014
08:31
22.5.2014
LATEST from our news desk:
At least eight members of the Ukrainian security forces were reportedly killed and 18 injured in an overnight clash with pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Ukrainian security sources on May 22 said the clash occurred about 20 kilometers south of separatist-controlled Donetsk, in the Volnovakha area.
Ukrainian forces also clashed with the separatists in the neighboring Luhansk region, but there was no immediate word about any casualties there.
The Russian Defense Ministry, meanwhile, said on May 22 that several trains carrying weapons and planeloads of troops have left the Belgorod, Bryansk, and Rostov regions along the border with Ukraine as part of a massive military pullout.
NATO, which estimates that Russia has 40,000 troops along its border with Ukraine, has said there aren't any visible signs yet of a large-scale Russian withdrawal. (Reuters, Interfax, and AP)
Ukrainian security sources on May 22 said the clash occurred about 20 kilometers south of separatist-controlled Donetsk, in the Volnovakha area.
Ukrainian forces also clashed with the separatists in the neighboring Luhansk region, but there was no immediate word about any casualties there.
The Russian Defense Ministry, meanwhile, said on May 22 that several trains carrying weapons and planeloads of troops have left the Belgorod, Bryansk, and Rostov regions along the border with Ukraine as part of a massive military pullout.
NATO, which estimates that Russia has 40,000 troops along its border with Ukraine, has said there aren't any visible signs yet of a large-scale Russian withdrawal. (Reuters, Interfax, and AP)
09:07
22.5.2014
Separatist leader in the eastern city of Luhansk reportedly mobilizes for war, amid reports of fighting there overnight and today:
09:26
22.5.2014
More reports of fighting near Donetsk: