Section: US & Canada
Germany Hosts Ukraine Crisis Talks
The foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany are meeting in Berlin and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said talks would focus on how to achieve a ceasefire and prevent weapons and fighters crossing into eastern Ukraine. Russia denies helping the rebels and accuses Kiev, backed by the West, of triggering a...
Ukraine Says Its Troops Make Breakthrough in Crushing Rebels
KIEV/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukrainian forces have raised their national flag over a police station in the city of Luhansk which was for months under rebel control, Kiev said on Sunday, in what could be a breakthrough in Ukraine’s efforts to crush pro-Moscow separatists. Ukrainian officials said however the rebels were fighting a...
Russia Aid Convoy at Ukraine Border
Lorries from a Russian convoy carrying aid to eastern Ukraine have reached a border post controlled by separatists. …read more Source: The Boston...
Letter: Two sides to conflict raging in Ukraine
Re: Finding the middle ground on Ukraine, Aug. 14. Finally, a sensible voice speaks out on the crisis in Ukraine. Columnist Mohammed Adam rightly points out there are two sides to the conflict now raging in that unfortunate country. Despite the determination of the Western media to put all of the blame on Russian President Vladimir Putin, the...
NATO Would Respond Militarily To Crimea-Style Infiltration: General
BERLIN (Reuters) – If Russia tries to infiltrate troops into a NATO country, even out of official military uniform as it did before it annexed Ukraine’s Crimea, NATO will respond militarily, the alliance’s to …read more Source: International Business...
Ukrainian, Russian officials to meet in Berlin
BERLIN (AP) — The foreign ministers of Ukraine and Russia are meeting in Berlin on Sunday to resume diplomatic talks on a political solution to the crisis in eastern Ukraine…. …read more Source: Associated...
Ukraine says government troops have entered rebel-held city, captured police station
By Peter Leonard KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s government said Sunday that separatists shot down a Ukrainian fighter plane after army troops entered deep inside a rebel-controlled city in the east in what could prove a breakthrough development in the four-month long conflict. Ukraine’s national security council said government forces...
Ukraine: Separatists shoot down fighter plane
The incident happened after army troops entered deep inside a rebel-held city in the east. …read more Source: USA...
Ukraine says fighter jet shot down, gov’t troops entered rebel-held city
Army troops have penetrated deep inside a rebel-controlled city in eastern Ukraine in what could prove a breakthrough development in the four-month-long conflict, the Ukrainian government said Sunday. …read more Source: CTV...
Ukraine captures rebel building, sees jet shot down
Ukrainian forces take police station on Russian border and claim fresh Russian military equipment has been seen coming in. …read more Source:...
