Section: US & Canada
Ceasefire at Donetsk airport in east Ukraine agreed: rebel leader
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukraine and pro-Russian separatist leaders on Tuesday agreed a truce around the airport in the eastern rebel stronghold of Donetsk that has been the focus of fighting for months.”Today, we reached an agreement to halt fire at 6:00 pm Moscow time (1500 GMT) around Donetsk airport,” the self-declared...
NATO ministers condemn Russia, announce new support for Ukraine
NATO foreign ministers are condemning what they call Russia’s “continued and deliberate destabilization” in Ukraine, and announcing new assistance for Ukraine’s military. …read more Source: FOX...
NATO Chief Says Russia Violating Ukraine Cease-fire
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Russia was violating the cease-fire in Ukraine and not respecting agreements reached in Minsk, Belarus, to defuse the conflict. Speaking at NATO headquarters in Brussels on December 2, he called on Russia to stop supplying tanks and forces to separatists in eastern Ukraine. Russia has repeatedly denied...
Drone Footage Captures Haunting Image Of Ukrainian Town Evacuated After The Chernobyl Disaster
New drone footage paints a harrowing picture of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, close to 30 years after one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters. The images give an insight into the decaying Ukrainian city of Pripyat, which has remained completely cut off since the city was engulfed in flames after the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded...
Temporary truce in Donetsk, Ukraine
Ed AdamczykDONETSK, Ukraine, Dec. 2 (UPI) — A temporary truce was declared Tuesday in fighting at the Donetsk, Ukraine, airport between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian separatists. …read more Source: United Press...
NATO, Kyiv Condemn Russia Over Crimea, Eastern Ukraine
NATO members and Ukraine have condemned Moscow for what they called Russia’s “deliberate destabilization of eastern Ukraine” and its military buildup in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula it annexed from Ukraine in March. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Cancellation of South Stream Pipeline Gives EU an Economic Headache
The European Union’s diplomatic victory in forcing the Kremlin to cancel its South Stream pipeline also gives Brussels a headache: how to come up with an alternative source of secure gas supply for south-eastern Europe. Though it became politically toxic after the crisis in Ukraine, the pipeline made sense for countries such as Serbia,...
Ukraine and Russian-backed rebels agreee to new cease-fire in war-torn east
KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine and Russian-backed rebels agreed on Monday to a fresh cease-fire in the war-torn eastern region of Luhansk, one of two provinces partially controlled by separatists, and were working toward expanding the armistice to neighboring Donetsk on Tuesday. News of the deal came via a report published late Monday from the...
Ukraine agrees on new ceasefire with separatist rebels
Ukrainian government troops and Russian-backed separatist forces in the Luhansk region have agreed on a new ceasefire, international monitors said. …read more Source: CTV...
Change of leadership in Crimea means property grab
YALTA, Crimea (AP) — One day in October, a dozen armed men in masks drove up to the gates of Yalta Film Studios. They weren’t actors, and this was no make-believe. It was a hostile takeover…. …read more Source: Associated...
