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Kyiv, Moscow Trade Barbs Over Escalation of Conflict in E. Ukraine
Russia and Ukraine again blamed each other Wednesday for the conflict in eastern Ukraine. Speaking to reporters in Kyiv, military spokesman Andriy Lysenko described the situation as tense, adding that pro-Russian rebels are attacking the army on all fronts. The spokesman also said that the hostilities have intensified in Debaltseve, a strategic...
Ukraine Court Wants Cameo From Hollywood’s Oliver Stone
Famed Hollywood director Oliver Stone created a small social media storm when a post on his Facebook page late last year showed him interviewing and casually strolling through a park with fugitive former Ukrainian… …read more Source:...
US threatens tougher action against Russia over Ukraine
US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said on Wednesday that Washington was ready to increase sanctions on Russia over its actions in war-torn Ukraine.Lew’s comments during a visit to Kiev came one day after EU heads of state threatened to impose further financial measures against Moscow in response to the latest upsurge in violence in...
EU to Extend Russia Sanctions
BRUSSELS—The European Union will extend by six months sanctions imposed on Russia last March over its annexation of Crimea, add new people to those under sanctions and prepare new measures, draft conclusions for an EU foreign ministers meeting showed.EU foreign ministers will meet on Thursday in Brussels for emergency talks to address renewed...
US Official:’ A Free Europe Rises or Falls With Ukraine’
A top U.S. official said Tuesday… …read more Source:...
The blame game in Ukraine
The Ukrainian government has imposed a state of emergency across its embattled eastern region – and placed the entire country on high alert. It follows a… …read more Source:...
UN: E. Ukraine Children Seeking Refuge in Bomb Shelters
GENEVA—The U.N. Children’s Fund reports more than 1,000 children are forced to seek refuge in underground bomb shelters in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk because of ongoing fighting and heavy shelling.UNICEF says these children are living in appalling conditions, suffering enormous levels of stress and are in urgent need of help.The...
Kiev military: Nine Ukrainian soldiers killed in ‘tense’ eastern conflict
Nine Ukrainian servicemen have been killed in fighting Russian-backed separatists in the past 24 hours, the Kiev military said on Tuesday, as rebels fought to encircle a key town straddling transport routes between their two strongholds.Violence in eastern Ukraine is at by far its worst since a ceasefire was agreed last September and Ukraine and...
Ukrainian Soldiers Killed in War-torn East
A Ukrainian military spokesman said nine soldiers have been killed and 29 others wounded in ongoing fighting in eastern Ukraine since Monday, as the United Nations’ political chief expressed his concerns the escalating conflict has violated humanitarian law. Military spokesman Vladislav Seleznyov said the fighting was the most intense near...
Last Survivors Recall Auschwitz, Ask if Lessons Learned
OSWIECIM—Russia’s Vladimir Putin will be absent from the main event marking 70 years since Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz death camp in Poland, held against a backdrop of hostilities in Ukraine and warnings of a rise in anti-Semitism in Europe. The commemoration on Tuesday at the site in southern Poland where the Nazis killed about...
