Section: US & Canada
Donetsk Cultural Center in Flames as Fighting Rages on
The municipal cultural center in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk was in flames on Wednesday (August 27) amid continuing unrest as Ukraine forces tried to retake the city from pro-Russian separatists. The cause of the blaze could not immediately be confirmed, but locals reported shelling in the city. The government in Kiev and its allies...
Breakthrough Hopes Dented as Ukraine Accuses Russia of New Incursion
Fire consumes the house of culture in the eastern Ukrainian rebel stronghold, Donetsk, after shelling in the area. Some fled the scene…others surveyed the damage. Locals say at least one person was killed and several others wounded. This, as Ukraine accuses Russia of launching a new military incursion across its eastern border; the latest...
Open Source: Video of Combat in Eastern Ukraine Adds to Worries in Kiev
Hundreds of Ukrainians rallied in Kiev to demand that reinforcements be sent to rescue besieged fighters in the east of the country. …read more Source: The New York...
Russian Soldiers in Ukraine Put Pressure on Putin
The frantic appeal to the Russian President came on Wednesday from a cramped and cluttered office in the city of Kostroma, about 200 miles northeast of Moscow, where the relatives of Russian prisoners of war had gathered to wait for news of their sons and husbands. Olga Pochtoeva, the mother of one of the Russian soldiers recently captured in...
Breakthrough hopes dashed in Ukraine
Ukraine accuses Russia of launching a new military incursion across its eastern border, as hopes quickly fade that talks between their two presidents might mark a turning point in a five-month-old crisis. Video provided by Reute …read more Source: USA...
Rebels enter southeastern town as battle for Ukraine’s strategic coastline heats up
By Peter Leonard NOVOAZOVSK, Ukraine — Pushing west in a new offensive along Ukraine’s strategic coastline, heavily armed Russian-backed separatist forces captured new territory Wednesday far from their previous battles with government troops. The bold offensive along a new southeastern front raised the prospect that the separatists are...
Russian journalists attacked while investigating soldier burials
Several Russian journalists say they were attacked while investigating the suspected secret burials of soldiers believed to have been killed in Ukraine. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
With Romanian Gas, Moldova Seeks Energy Independence From Russia
Moldova took a small but symbolic step Wednesday toward easing its reliance on Russian gas imports when it inaugurated a pipeline that will start to bring in gas next week from Romania. With fears mounting of a winter cut-off in gas supplies to Europe from Russia over the conflict in Ukraine, the prime ministers of Moldova and European Union...
Battle for Southeastern Ukraine Heats Up
NOVOAZOVSK, Ukraine—Pushing west in a new offensive along Ukraine’s strategic coastline, heavily armed Russian-backed separatist forces captured new territory Wednesday far from their previous battles with government troops. The bold offensive along a new southeastern front raised the prospect that the separatists are seeking to create a...
New Russian offensive opens 3rd front: Ukraine
The Russian attack in an unbreached part of eastern Ukraine is causing panic and retreat. The NYT reports. …read more Source:...
