Section: Toronto Star (Canada)
Malaysian passenger plane shot down over Ukraine, official says
A Malaysian airliner was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, reports Russian news agency ITAR-TASS. …read more Source: Toronto...
Ukraine accuses Russia of shooting down fighter jet
Ukraine says there is mounting evidence that Moscow is directly supporting the separatist insurgents. …read more Source: Toronto...
Russian troops again building up along Ukraine border, U.S. says
U.S. officials believe Moscow may be sending heavy weapons into the country to aid the separatists, the U.S. Defence Department says. …read more Source: Toronto...
Canadian group trying to assist Ukrainian orphans caught up in civil war
Kyiv says that nearly 600 children from orphanages in eastern Ukraine need to be moved as fighting in the area intensifies, but separatists say they should go to Russia. …read more Source: Toronto...
Airstrike demolishes apartment block in eastern Ukraine, killing 11
The devastation bore signs of a strike by several missiles and left only a mountain of smoking debris. …read more Source: Toronto...
Pro-Russian forces threaten to take orphans out of Ukraine, charities say
Orphaned Ukrainian children trapped in Donetsk as charities try to send them to safety at a summer camp. …read more Source: Toronto...