Section: US & Canada
EU Expands Ukraine-Crisis Sanctions List
The European Union has blacklisted an additional 19 individuals and nine entities for “undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty, and independence of Ukraine.” …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Cease-fire being threatened as fighting persists in east Ukraine
Intense artillery exchanges between Ukrainian government forces and Russian-backed separatists around a strategic town in the east persisted Monday in fighting that threatens to dash a cease-fire deal brokered last week. …read more Source: Global...
Ukraine Cease-Fire At Risk As Government, Russia-Backed Rebels Accuse Each Other Of Violations
ARTEMIVSK, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian government and Russia-backed rebels accused each other Monday of violating a cease-fire in eastern Ukraine, a day before the parties are due to start withdrawing heavy weaponry under a recently brokered deal. The cease-fire, which went into effect on Sunday, had raised cautious hopes for an end to the...
Ukraine, rebels accuse each other of violating cease-fire
ARTEMIVSK, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian government and Russia-backed rebels accused each other Monday of violating a cease-fire in eastern Ukraine, a day before the parties are due to start withdrawing heavy weaponry under a recently brokered deal. The cease-fire, which went into effect on Sunday, had raised cautious hopes … …read...
Ukraine town held by government forces shelled heavily
A government-held town in east Ukraine sandwiched between two rebel-controlled areas came under heavy shelling on Monday, a day after the start of a ceasefire that Russian-backed separatists say does not apply there. A Kyiv military source said four Ukrainian soldiers had been killed and 21 wounded since the internationally negotiated ceasefire...
Heavy shelling hits Ukraine town where rebels reject ceasefire
Debaltseve, a government-held town in east Ukraine sandwiched between two rebel-controlled areas, came under heavy shelling on Monday, a day after the start of a ceasefire that Russian-backed separatists say does not apply there. …read more Source:...
EU puts 19 more individuals on its Ukraine sanctions list
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has added 19 more individuals, including five Russians, on its sanctions list for their actions linked to the fighting in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: U.S....
EU puts 19 more individuals on its Ukraine sanctions list
The additions bring the total of individuals hit with a travel ban and asset freeze to 151 while 37 entities are now also hit with restrictive measures. …read more Source: San Francisco...
Ukraine, Russia-backed rebels accuse each other of violating of cease-fire
The Ukrainian government and Russia-backed rebels are accusing each other of violating a cease-fire in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Global...
Ukraine under fire ‘112 times’ despite ceasefire
Sofia (AFP) – Ukrainian forces have come under fire from pro-Russian rebels over 100 times in the last 24 hours, despite a ceasefire coming into force at midnight on Saturday, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said Monday. “We and the Ukraine armed forces are fully observing the ceasefire regime but unfortunately in...
