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Badly Burned Ukrainian Boy Bravely Fights Back
Published April 15, 2015 A 9-year-old Ukrainian boy has returned to his native country after intensive treatment in the United States for life-threatening burns. Volodia Bubela, burned in a house fire almost a year ago, battled back at a Boston hospital, impressing doctors with his bravery. Faith Lapidus narrates this report from VOA’s...
Man Arrested for Landing Unauthorized Aircraft on US Capitol Lawn
Video Ukrainian Troops Killed Despite Renewed Commitment to Cease-fire Deal Ukraine’s military says more of its soldiers have been killed in the past two days by mortar and rocket fire from Russian-backed separatists. The fighting has intensified in eastern Ukraine despite the Minsk cease-fire deal signed in February. Both sides agreed...
New York Protesters March Against Police Brutality
Video Ukrainian Troops Killed Despite Renewed Commitment to Cease-fire Deal Ukraine’s military says more of its soldiers have been killed in the past two days by mortar and rocket fire from Russian-backed separatists. The fighting has intensified in eastern Ukraine despite the Minsk cease-fire deal signed in February. Both sides agreed...
Ukrainian Troops Killed Despite Renewed Commitment to Cease-fire Deal
Published April 14, 2015 Ukraine’s military says more of its soldiers have been killed in the past two days by mortar and rocket fire from Russian-backed separatists. The fighting has intensified in eastern Ukraine despite the Minsk cease-fire deal signed in February. Both sides agreed Monday to pull more heavy weapons back from the front...
Fighting flares up in Ukraine amid shaky truce
Six soldiers have been killed in fighting and a landmine explosion has injured a Russian journalist in rebel-held eastern Ukraine as a flare-up of violence undermined a shaky two-month ceasefire. Russian TV network Zvezda, which is controlled by the country’s defence ministry, said one of its journalists was badly injured in the village of...
European Agency: Military Jets Putting Civilian Aircraft at Risk
BRUSSELS—Military jets that fly over Europe without identifying themselves pose a high risk to civilian aircraft, aviation safety officials said in a report published Tuesday, following a spate of near-collisions involving Russian warplanes. The European Commission asked the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) to investigate after recent...
G7 Foreign Ministers Meet on Key World Issues
LUEBECK, GERMANY—Foreign ministers of the Group of Seven industrialized countries are meeting in Luebeck, Germany, to discuss issues ranging from Ebola to arms control as they prepare for the G7 summit in June. The agenda for this gathering is daunting – Libya, Yemen, Boko Haram, Syria, Ukraine and the Islamic State group, just to name a...
Don’t Underestimate NATO, German Minister Says on Baltic Visit
TALLINN/MOSCOW—Germany’s defense minister said on Tuesday that nobody should underestimate NATO’s rapid response capacity, which has been ratcheted up in response to worries about Russia’s military ambitions after its actions in Ukraine. Germany’s Ursula von der Leyen said in Russia’s neighbor Estonia, whose...
Zarif Reiterates Tehran’s Position on Sanctions
Video In Ukraine Conflict, Rivals Play Game of Drones In the Ukrainian conflict, both government forces and pro-Russian rebels have relied heavily on drones as a means of enemy surveillance. Adam Bailes reports on a volunteer Ukrainian drone team using a homemade spy plane on a mission into rebel-held Donetsk. Video Summit Participants Discuss...
Six Ukrainian Soldiers Killed in Clashes With Rebels
Ukraine’s defense minister said six soldiers have been killed in clashes with Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine. Andriy Lysenko told reporters Tuesday six soldiers were killed and 12 wounded during a 24-hour… …read more Source:...
