Section: US & Canada
Lawmaker: Congress Would Restore Ukraine Military Aid
This story originated in VOA’s Ukrainian Service. Nataliya Leonova reported from Washington and Myroslava Gongadze reported from Kyiv.WASHINGTON/KYIV, UKRAINE — A senior Republican member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee says that even if President Donald Trump refuses to unfreeze $250 million in military aid for Ukraine,...
Russia, Ukraine Clash In Human Rights Court On Crimea
A one-day public hearing was held on September 11 in Ukraine’s case against Russia for its alleged human rights abuses in the Crimea. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Bolton’s Dismissal Signals Trump’s Foreign-Policy Pivot
John Bolton’s sudden departure from the Trump administration was inevitable. It had nothing to do with his fabled mustache or even his very real personality clash with the president. It was a matter of principle. Trump wants to write a new chapter, closing the one marked “Militarism and Maximum Pressure” and opening one called “Dealmaking...
Police Raid Headquarters Of Ukraine’s Largest Bank
Police have raided the headquarters of PrivatBank, Ukraine’s largest bank, as part of a criminal investigation. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Freed Ukrainian Journalist Sushchenko To Auction Prison Art Work Political Prisoners
Ukrainian journalist and former political prisoner Roman Sushchenko says he plans to organize an auction to sell pictures he drew and painted while imprisoned in Russia for almost three years on a spying conviction activists have called fabricated for political reasons. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Daughter Of MH17 Suspect Traded By Ukraine To Russia Says: ‘There Is Justice…. We’re Going Home’
More than two months after his capture by Kyiv and four days after he was flown to Moscow as part of a major Russian-Ukrainian prisoner exchange, the man who Dutch investigators say is a “suspect” in the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 is apparently returning to his home. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Fire Sparks Series Of Blasts At Ammunition Depot In Ukraine
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry says a fire at an ammunition depot in the Vinnytsya region southwest of Kyiv has set off a series of explosions. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Estonia mulling over lifting visa freedom to Ukrainians
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‘Long way to go’ before Russia-Ukraine repair relations despite prisoner swap, experts say
A high-profile prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine is being seen as a boost to the possible resumption of peace talks, but experts are tempering those hopes. …read more Source::...
U.S. Intelligence Needs Another Reinvention
Eighteen years ago, al-Qaeda operatives hijacked planes, toppled buildings, terrified an entire nation, and killed nearly 3,000 innocents. That the elaborate 9/11 plot went undetected will forever be remembered as one of the intelligence community’s worst failures. For many U.S. intelligence officials, memories of that day remain fresh,...
