Section: US & Canada
Ukrainian kids learn to fight at military summer camp
More than 100 Ukrainian schoolchildren will have unusual tales to tell their mates when classes resume, after spending part of their summer vacations undergoing training by the National Guard. …read more Source: FOX...
Bloody Protests in Kiev after Constitutional Reform Vote
Fighting broke out in Kiev Monday after Ukraine’s parliament ruled to de-centralize power, granting greater autonomy to separatist-run Donetsk and Luhansk. After news of the vote broke, protestors, many of whom were members of the nationalist party Svoboda and the far-right group Pravy Sektor, threw smoke grenades at Ukraine’s...
Police officer killed in riots as Ukraine’s parliament grants separatist regions more powers
Most of the protesters were from a party opposing the changes as “capitulation to the Kremlin,” but Kyiv’s mayor called the clash Monday “a bloody provocation.” …read more Source: Toronto...
A Split Ukraine, and Kiev Bleeds Again
Outside, a bomb thrown from a right-wing mob leaves a riot cop dead and dozens severely injured. Inside, a bitter parliament cries treachery, but votes to approve the Minsk ceasefire. …read more Source: The Daily...
Grenade in Ukraine explodes, killing one officer; 100 injured in clashes
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — 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. Some of … …read more...
Ukrainian kids go to military camp
STARE, Ukraine (AP) — More than 100 Ukrainian schoolchildren will have unusual tales to tell their mates when classes resume, after spending part of their summer vacations undergoing training by the National Guard…. …read more Source: Associated...
Ukrainian kids go to military camp
STARE, Ukraine (AP) — More than 100 Ukrainian schoolchildren will have unusual tales to tell their mates when classes resume, after spending part… …read more Source:...
Ukrainian kids go to military camp
STARE, Ukraine (AP) — More than 100 Ukrainian schoolchildren will have unusual tales to tell their mates when classes resume, after spending part of their summer vacations undergoing training by the National Guard. …read more Source: U.S....
U.S. protesters urge release of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov
Jared M. FeldschreiberCHICAGO, Aug. 31 (UPI) — Residents in New York and Chicago rallied in support of Ukrainian Oleg Sentsov who was sentenced by Russian court to 20 years in a maximum-security prison. …read more Source: United Press...
Officer killed after grenade explodes outside Ukraine’s parliament
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 and injuring more than 100, the interior ministry said. …read more Source: CTV...
