Sentence examples for separatists controlling the from inspiring English sources

THE devastation of Sri Lanka by last December's tsunami left one glimmer of hope: that the calamity might enforce co-operation between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the separatists controlling the north-east of the island.

Separatists controlling the town of Slaviansk also attacked Ukrainian forces on Karachun hill overlooking the town with mortars and grenade-launchers, the spokesman, Vladyslav Seleznyov, said.

Sloviansk, the headquarters of the pro-Russia separatists controlling large pockets of eastern Ukraine, looked to be on the cusp of descending into brutal street warfare today.

The Baltic states and Poland have sought more visible NATO protection since Russia seized and annexed Ukraine's Crimean region and sent fighters and weapons to aid separatists controlling other areas of southeastern Ukraine.

As the separatists control only some towns and cities, it is not yet clear how much of the territory of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic the referendum actually covered.

Sikh separatists controlled many temples in British Columbia.

Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko is negotiating with pro-Russian separatists who control the area around the crash site to establish a humanitarian corridor.

The two leaders also agreed that Russia has a responsibility to use its extraordinary influence with the pro-Russian separatists who control the crash site to compel them to cooperate with international monitors and investigators.

The missile's Russian maker, however, presented its own report hours earlier, trying to clear Russia-backed separatists who controlled the area or Russia of any involvement in the crash on July 17 , 2014 that killed all 298 people aboard the plane.

If the Ukrainian separatists who controlled the area where the plane went down had treated the bodies well — or just, as President Obama said Monday, with "decency" — they and their Russian sponsors might have kept a better grip on this story.

The UK believes the plane was brought down by a missile "supplied by the Russians" and that the Russian government is not doing enough to pressure separatists who control the area to allow international access to the crash site.