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Russian Convoy Crosses Ukrainian Border, Prompting Outcry From West
Russia has sent a large number of trucks into eastern Ukraine without the authorization of the Ukrainian government or Red Cross supervision. Moscow says the trucks are carrying aid for civilians, but the Ukrainians — together with NATO, U.S. and European leaders — say the move is a violation of Ukrainian sovereignty.» E-Mail This …read...
Ukraine government calls arrival of massive Russian aid convoy a ‘direct invasion’
Frustrated by a week of delays, Russia sent over 130 aid trucks rolling into rebel-held eastern Ukraine on Friday without the approval of the government in Kyiv. Ukraine called the move a “direct invasion” that aimed to provoke an international incident. …read more Source: CTV...
Ukraine calls arrival of Russian aid convoy a ‘direct invasion’
Frustrated by a week of delays, Russia sent over 130 aid trucks rolling into rebel-held eastern Ukraine on Friday without the approval of the government in Kyiv. Ukraine called the move a “direct invasion” that aimed to provoke an international incident. …read more Source: CTV...
The cheerful gulag survivor: Alexander Topolski, 1923-2014
When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Alexander Topolski was just like a lot of 16-year-olds eager to lie about their age and sign up to fight the Nazis. But unlike most war veterans in Canada today, he didn’t join the Canadian Army or the Royal Air Force. Topolski (known in those days by his first name, Boguslaw) lived in eastern Poland....
Russia sends convoy into Ukraine; gov’t calls it a ‘direct invasion’
Frustrated by a week of delays, Russia sent over 130 aid trucks rolling into rebel-held eastern Ukraine on Friday without the approval of the government in Kyiv. Ukraine called the move a “direct invasion” that aimed to provoke an international incident. …read more Source: CTV...
Russian aid convoy reaches war-torn city of Luhansk
Declaring it had lost patience with Ukraine’s stalling tactics, Russia sent at least 130 aid trucks rolling into rebel-held eastern Ukraine on Friday without the approval of the government in Kyiv. Ukraine called the move a “direct invasion” that aimed to provoke an international incident. …read more Source: CTV...
RCAF training mission to Romania completed
The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) completed their Air Task Force’s (ATF) training mission in Romania today and was honoured with a parade and flag-lowering ceremony at the Romanian Air Force 71st Air Base in Campia Turzii, the RCAF noted in a news release. More from the release: The RCAF CF-18 aircraft will now relocate to Lithuania to...
Russians brought artillery into Ukraine, fired at Kiev’s forces, NATO says
West has long accused Russia of supporting the separatist forces in eastern Ukraine, but this is the first time it has said it had evidence of the direct involvement of the Russian military …read more Source: The Globe and...
Russia sends aid trucks into Ukraine, Kyiv calls move a ‘direct invasion’
Ukraine insists the truck drivers are Russian soldiers; and says the trucks are meant to transport weapons and remove bodies of Russian fighters from eastern Ukraine …read more Source: Calgary...
Photos August 22: Top images from around the world
Family members of Malaysia Airlines flight attendant Nur Shazana Mohamed Salleh, one of the Malaysians who perished aboard flight MH17 that was downed in eastern Ukraine, cry during a burial ceremony in Putrajaya, outside Kuala Lumpur on August 22, 2014. Black-clad Malaysians paused for a minute of silence Friday on a nationwide day of mourning...
