Section: US & Canada
Polish leader holds ‘difficult’ talks with Hungary’s Orban
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The prime minister of Poland, one of Europe’s most critical voices on Russia, has held what she called “honest and difficult talks” with her Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban, who faces sharp criticism in the West for cultivating closer ties with Russia. Ewa Kopacz and Orban met Thursday in Warsaw, part of an effort...
Ukraine retreats from key town
The leaders of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany spoke Thursday by phone in an apparent attempt to shore up a ceasefire deal shaken by Ukraine’s forced retreat from a key town. …read more Source:...
Rebels shell key port after Ukraine troops retreat from rail hub as fear grows Putin is sizing up the Baltics
U.K. Defence Secretary Michael Fallon is warning of a ‘present danger’ that Putin will destabilize the former Russian states as rebels make gains in Ukraine despite a cease-fire …read more Source: Vancouver...
Fighting rages despite bid to revive Ukraine truce
Fighting raged in eastern Ukraine on Thursday despite European efforts to resurrect a still-born ceasefire, a day after pro-Russian separatists who spurned the truce forced thousands of government troops out of a strategic town. …read more Source: The Toronto...
Raw: Ukraine Forces Leaving Strategic Town
A Ukrainian military spokesman said on Thursday that more than 90 per cent of its forces have been withdrawn from the fiercely contested town of Debaltseve and its surroundings. (Feb. 19) …read more Source: USA...
Russia, Separatists Dismiss Ukraine Call For Peacekeepers
Russia has dismissed Ukraine’s calls for UN-mandated peacekeepers to enforce a shaky cease-fire deal in the country’s east. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine Update: Fighting Shifts To Mariupol; A Call For UN Peacekeepers
Ukraine says that in the past 24 hours alone, 14 of its soldiers have died and another 172 were injured. The leaders of France, Germany, Ukraine and Russia are trying to salvage a cease-fire.» E-Mail This …read more Source:...
Europe Tries To Salvage Ukraine Ceasefire As Fighting Rages
DEBALTSEVE, Ukraine (AP) — Rebel fighters, many of them Cossacks, roamed the streets of Debaltseve on Thursday, a day after Ukrainian forces began withdrawing from the besieged town. The mood was celebratory, with fighters laughing, hugging each other and posing for photos. Associated Press journalists drove Thursday around half of the town that...
Can Ukraine Gnaw Its Way out of Trouble?
Animals caught in a trap will often chew off a limb to escape. Even the occasional human being has resorted to this nightmare option, as the hiker Aron Ralston did when a boulder pinned his arm in a remote area of Utah wilderness. He’d run out of food, water, and time. What he did have was a utility knife. You can imagine the rest (or you...
Debaltseve under rebel control, Cossack fighters celebrate
In this late Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015 photo, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko speaks in Kiev, Ukraine. Poroshenko sought to portray the fall of Debaltseve in a positive light, saying the p… …read more Source: The Bismarck...
