10:22
22.5.2014
10:21
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.”
10:18
22.5.2014
10:16
22.5.2014
10:16
22.5.2014
The infamous "Russian colonel" commanding separatist armed forces in eastern Ukraine is charged by Kyiv authorities:
10:14
22.5.2014
Russia ending its "exercises" on the Ukrainian border, it says:
09:24
22.5.2014
Reports coming in of fighting in eastern Ukraine, especially around Luhansk:
09:20
22.5.2014
Ukraine raises the stakes with Russia:
08:27
22.5.2014
Russia says its withdrawal of troops from the Ukrainian border continues:
08:00
22.5.2014
Former Yukos boss Mikhail Khodorkovsky warns in an interview with the BBC against more sanctions on Russia, instead urging the West to do more to support Ukraine.
Mr Khodorkovsky told the BBC that Ukraine had entered a "slow burn civil war" but he said he did not believe Russian President Vladimir Putin was planning to invade eastern Ukraine.
Mr Putin had "lost control" of events in Russia's neighbour, Mr Khodorkovsky said, citing the Kremlin's recent inability to stop a referendum by pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk and Luhansk.
But he said Europe's reaction to events in Ukraine threatened to exacerbate renewed Russian nationalism, stirred up by the Russian president's annexing of Crimea.
Mr Khodorkovsky argues that EU leaders should avoid further sanctions on Moscow and concentrate their efforts on encouraging political reform in Kiev.