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Ukraine cease-fire mostly holding: U.S.
The United States said Tuesday the cease-fire in Ukraine was “mostly holding,” adding that conditions on the ground would be a factor as it mulls imposing additional sanctions against Russia in “the next few days.” State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said the cease-fire agreed on Friday between Kiev and pro-Russian separatists has been...
Report: Flight 17 likely downed by ‘outside impacts’
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was likely struck by multiple “high-energy objects from outside the aircraft,” causing it to break up over eastern Ukraine, a preliminary report into the deadly aviation disaster concluded Tuesday. The report by the Dutch Safety Board stopped short of saying the Boeing 777 was shot down by a missile, but its […] The...
U.S. lawmakers want Ukraine leader to address Congress
Top U.S. senators on Monday pressed for Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to address a joint session of Congress when he visits Washington on Sept. 18. Kiev’s government and military are facing pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine and U.S. lawmakers want President Barack Obama’s administration to “extend a hand of friendship to...
World › Ukraine’s leader rallies for unity in key city
Seeking to rally national unity, President Petro Poroshenko visited a southeastern port Monday that has been assaulted for days by Russian-backed separatists and declared the city would remain a part of Ukraine. After a series of military defeats to increasingly confident rebel forces in the country’s eastern regions, Ukraine signed…...
Ukraine’s leader visits embattled city of Mariupol
Ukraine’s president made a surprise trip Monday to a government stronghold in the turbulent southeast, delivering a fiery speech to hundreds of workers in hard hats in a dramatic show of Kiev’s strength in the region. “This city was, is, and will be Ukrainian!” President Petro Poroshenko told metal plant workers in the embattled...
World › Ceasefire in eastern Ukraine falters as shelling claims lives
Shelling and other clashes between government forces and Russian-backed separatists threw the ceasefire agreement in eastern Ukraine into deepening peril Sunday, two days after it took hold. At least two houses hit by artillery fire blazed in the rural village of Spartak, which lies just north of the main rebel-held… …read more Source:...
Truce falters; Ukraine shelling claims lives, sets houses ablaze
Shelling and other clashes between government forces and Russian-backed separatists threw the cease-fire agreement in eastern Ukraine into deepening peril Sunday, two days after it took hold. At least two houses hit by artillery fire blazed in the rural village of Spartak, which lies just north of the main rebel-held city of Donetsk and adjacent...
Ukraine frontline city of Mariupol on edge after night of violence
It didn’t take long for the guns to roar into action again on the edge of the Ukrainian flash point city of Mariupol, with the ink barely dry on a shaky truce plan between the government and rebel forces. Terrified residents were abruptly woken late Saturday when pro-Russian insurgents began bombarding a government-held checkpoint on […]...
Iran arrests suspected nuclear plant saboteur
Iranian authorities have arrested a Ukrainian national suspected of sabotage at the country’s sole nuclear power plant, an Iranian newspaper reported Sunday. The report in the Hamshahri daily said the “Ukrainian expert” was affiliated with a Russian contractor that works in Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant, which went online in 2011...
Kiev church leader says Putin is under Satan’s influence
Russian President Vladimir Putin has fallen under the spell of Satan and faces eternal damnation unless he repents, a top Ukrainian clergyman said Saturday in an unusually blunt statement that squarely blamed the Russian leader for the war in Ukraine. Patriarch Filaret heads the Kiev Patriarchate, a branch of the Orthodox Church that broke away...
