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A woman carries a baby as she passes destroyed houses following what locals say was overnight shelling by Ukrainian forces in the eastern town of Slovyansk on June 9.
A woman carries a baby as she passes destroyed houses following what locals say was overnight shelling by Ukrainian forces in the eastern town of Slovyansk on June 9.
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Live Blog: Crisis In Ukraine (Archive)

Summary for June 9

-- Ukraine's Foreign Ministry says that Moscow and Kyiv have reached a "mutual understanding" on key parts of a plan proposed by President Petro Poroshenko for ending violence in separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine.

-- Reports say up to 20 armed gunmen were trying to seize property from a factory (Topaz) that makes communications and electronic-warfare equipment in the Donetsk region.

-- A deputy foreign minister says Russia will consider any expansion of NATO forces near its borders a "demonstration of hostile intentions" and "take the necessary political and military-technological measures to support our security."

-- A two-man crew for Russian Zvezda TV arrived in Moscow after being released from detention in Ukraine.

-- Serbian officials say their own work on the Russian-backed South Stream gas pipeline will have to be suspended after Bulgaria stopped construction of its portion based on EU and U.S. concerns.

-- Ukrainian security forces are reportedly still battling pro-Russian separatists in the east near Slovyansk and Donetsk.

*NOTE: Times are stated according to local time in Kyiv
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11:46 14.5.2014
This just in from RFE/RL's news desk:
The Ukrainian government is hosting roundtable talks today in an effort to de-escalate the crisis in the country's east amid a fresh report of a deadly separatist attack on government troops.

The talks in Kyiv will include government, parliamentary, and regional leaders, but notably no representative from the pro-Russian separatist movement.

The roundtable discussions will be moderated by veteran German diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger and are based on a road map brokered by the OSCE.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier described the talks in Kyiv as "only a start."

The talks come as pro-Russian separatists claim to have killed eight government soldiers in an overnight battle outside Slovyansk.

That report comes one day after separatist rebels killed seven Ukrainian soldiers in an ambush.

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11:09 14.5.2014
This story by RFE/RL's Luke Johnson about Russia's threat to close GPS stations on its territory is peripherally related to the Ukraine crisis, but it's interesting nonetheless. Johnso was speaking to Bradford Parkinson, professor emeritus of aeronautics at Stanford University:
Parkinson, who led the project to create the GPS system in the 1970s, said closing the Russian stations could have an effect only in terms of fine levels of accuracy, "when you are trying to get accuracies ranging down to perhaps centimeters or better," he said. "And so, if he were to indeed shut such differential stations down, the people he's going to be harming are his own people. The GPS itself does not rely on any reference stations within Russian territory.

"That's like a guy saying to the rest of the town, I'm going to really ruin you -- I'm going to turn off my own water," Parkinson joked. "'Have at it. Let me know how it turns out.'"

Read the entire article here.

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