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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
16:53 29.5.2014
More reporting on the factional in-fighting in Donetsk:
Militia ousting separatist forces in Donetsk, says insurgent leader =
Moscow (dpa) - Members of an armed pro-Russian militia on Thursday
evicted east Ukrainian separatists from their headquarters in Donetsk
and began taking down the barricades they had erected, a separatist
leader tells dpa.

"The Vostok battalion is removing the barricades, and I do not
understand why and for what," Miroslav Rudenko said by telephone from
Donetsk.

16:46 29.5.2014
From Interfax:
Ukraine's military report killing militants involved in downing army helicopter

Kyiv, 29 May: The Ukrainian National Guard has said that the group of militants, who earlier downed a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter near Slovyansk in Donetsk Region, has been eliminated by the forces of the antiterrorist operation.

"In response to the terrorists' actions, the forces of the antiterrorist operation carried out artillery and aircraft shelling of the territory, from which fire had been held. As a result, the group of criminals involved in the shooting was eliminated," the National Guard said in a report.

16:32 29.5.2014
BREAKING: Russia's Foreign Ministry has demanded that the government in Kyiv stop its military operation against separatists and urged the West to press Kyiv to avert a "catastrophe" in Ukraine.

16:11 29.5.2014
Evidence of the looting in Donetsk.

15:35 29.5.2014
Vyacheslav Ponomaryov, the separatist mayor of Slovyansk, often makes wild claims. Here is his latest:
About 1,200 Ukrainian army soldiers have been killed during a special operation in Slaviansk, and eight helicopters and 15 armored vehicles were destroyed, Slaviansk people's mayor Vyacheslav Ponomaryov said Thursday.

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