Section: CBC (Canada)
Russia building military base near Ukraine border
Russia has started to build a huge military base housing ammunition depots and barracks for several thousand soldiers near the Ukrainian border, a project that suggests the Kremlin is digging in for a prolonged stand-off with Kiev. …read more Source:...
Grenade explosion during Ukraine clashes kills 1 officer killed
A grenade exploded outside Ukraine’s parliament during a nationalist protest against a vote to give greater powers to separatist regions in the east, killing one police officer, the interior ministry said. About 100 other officers were injured in the clashes, 10 of them seriously. …read more Source:...
Ukraine vote for special status for east touches off riots
Ukraine’s parliament voted on Monday for constitutional changes to give separatist-minded eastern regions a special status – but divisions in the pro-Western camp and violent street protests suggested the changes would face a rougher ride to become law. …read more Source:...
Ukrainian filmmaker, opposed to Crimea annexation, sentenced to 20 years in Russia
A Russian court has convicted a Ukrainian filmmaker of conspiracy to commit terror attacks and sentenced him to 20 years in prison. …read more Source:...
U.S. sending F-22s to Europe in response to Russian presence in Ukraine
The U.S. will deploy F-22 fighter jets to Europe very soon as part of a broader effort to support European NATO allies against Russian military aggression in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Germany, France call for compliance in Ukraine peace deal
A ceasefire agreement in eastern Ukraine is not being respected and everything possible must be done to fully implement the peace deal reached in Minsk, German Chancellor Angela Merkel says. …read more Source:...
5 deadliest air-show disasters
Several crashes and fatalities have recently marred air shows across the world. As with Friday’s crash in the U.K., the deadliest air-show disasters have all involved spectators or other members of the public. …read more Source:...
‘War for Ukrainian independence is continuing,’ president says
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says his country is facing a precarious year struggling to fend off what he called Russian strategies to undermine Kyiv’s drive for closer relations with Europe. …read more Source:...
Inquiry into downed Malaysia Airlines jet closes in on cause, suspects
Families of the almost 300 people who were killed when a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet was shot down over eastern Ukraine a year ago attend a sombre memorial service today. They are still looking for answers, Susan Ormiston reports. …read more Source:...
Ukraine, Australia mark sombre anniversary of Malaysian jet’s downing
Residents of the Ukrainian village where a Malaysian airliner was shot down began a procession to the crash site on Friday, while the Australia remembered the “savagery” of the disaster by unveiling a plaque that’s set in soil from the place where the plane went down. …read more Source:...
