Section: US & Canada
Russian Convoy: First Trucks Cross Back Into Ukraine, Amid International Protests
Trucks from a Russian aid convoy started crossing back into Russia on Saturday after igniting a storm of anger in Western capitals a day earlier by driving into Ukraine without the permission of the government in Kiev. The return of the trucks may help ease the tension to some extent in time for the arrival of German Chancellor Angela Merkel in...
Russian aid trucks begin to leave Ukraine
The state news agency RIA Novosti cited the Russian customs service as saying the trucks would move in six groups. The convoy drove Friday into Ukraine bound for Luhansk, a city in eastern Ukraine hard-hit by weeks of fighting between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels. The Ukrainian government and Western countries denounced the move as a...
Russian Aid Convoy Defies Ukraine
Russia sends more than 100 aid lorries into eastern Ukraine, without permission from Kiev. …read more Source: The Boston...
Russian aid trucks begin to leave Ukraine
Trucks marked as being from a bitterly disputed Russian aid convoy to Ukraine began returning to Russia on Saturday. …read more Source: Miami...
Russian aid trucks begin to leave Ukraine
An Associated Press reporter saw four of the trucks waiting Saturday morning at the border crossing in the Russian town of Donetsk. …read more Source: FOX...
Eyewitness: Russian aid trucks suspected of supplying rebels begin to leave Ukraine
Some of the trucks in a Russian aid convoy that entered Ukraine in a move denounced by Kiev as an invasion are returning to Russia. …read more Source: FOX...
Russian aid trucks begin to leave Ukraine
DONETSK, Russia (AP) — Some of the trucks in a Russian aid convoy that entered Ukraine in a move denounced by Kiev as an invasion are returning to Russia. …read more Source: The Bismarck...
Havana retro-Soviet restaurant a nod to nostalgia
Nazdarovie, which is named for the popular Russian toast and opened Friday, is all about Slavic fare like bowls of blood-red borscht and stuffed Ukrainian varenyky dumplings, hand-rolled in the back by “babushkas” who were born in the former Soviet Union but have long called Cuba home. Behind the bar, Russian nesting dolls and a bust...
Russian Convoys Enter Ukraine Without Permission
Russian aid trucks have crossed the border into Ukraine’s war-ravaged eastern city of Luhansk without permission from the government in Kyiv. The United States and European Union have condemned the move and are asking Moscow to withdraw the convoy. Russia has amassed thousands of troops on the border, raising concerns that it could use the...
Plaques mark internment of Ukrainian immigrants during First World War | video
Calgary’s Ukrainian community reflected on a dark chapter of Canadian history Friday with the unveiling of three plaques to commemorate the internment of Ukrainian immigrants during the First World War. The plaques, which depict images of internees with the caption “Recalling Canada’s First National Internment Operations,” are being...
