Section: US & Canada
Russian aid convoy for eastern Ukraine waits near border
Hundreds of trucks in a Russian aid convoy are waiting near the Ukrainian border as complicated procedures drag on for allowing them into eastern Ukraine to help civilians suffering amid fighting between Ukrainian forces and separatists. …read more Source: FOX...
Russian aid convoy waits near Ukraine
KAMENSK-SHAKHTINSKY, Russia (AP) — Hundreds of trucks in a Russian aid convoy are waiting near the Ukrainian border as complicated procedures drag on for allowing them into eastern Ukraine to help civilians suffering amid fighting between Ukrainian forces and separatists. …read more Source: San Francisco...
Kiev says most of Russia column destroyed
KIEV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Friday that Ukrainian forces had attacked and destroyed part of a column of Russian military vehicles on Ukrainian territory — a step that, if confirmed, would represent a significant escalation of hostilities between Ukraine and Russia. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...
Deal reached to allow inspection of Russian aid convoy
Kiev and the West were suspicious that the mission could be a pretext for a Russian military incursion into eastern Ukraine, where government forces are battling pro-Russia separatists and clawing back rebel-held territory. NATO secretary-general Anders Fogh Rasmussen also confirmed that Russian military vehicles had entered Ukraine, but he gave...
Weekend Roundup: Not Doing Stupid Sh*t in Iraq
Keeping to his credo of “don’t do stupid sh*t,” President Barack Obama sent in fighter planes to prevent ISIS from its genocidal assault on fleeing Yazidi refugees in northern Iraq, while also making it clear that the U.S. can just do so much. Only “inclusive” and “non-maximalist” governments in the...
The White House Has No Idea What’s Going On With The Russian Convoy In Ukraine
Despite eyewitnesses seeing a column of Russian military vehicles crossing into Ukraine on Thursday that was reportedly attacked on Friday by the Ukrainian military, The White House released a statement saying it was “not currently in a position to confirm” this series of events. “We are working to gather more information...
Open Source: Some Russian Aid Trucks Are Nearly Empty, Reporters Find
A media tour of a Russian aid convoy waiting to pass into Ukraine revealed that several trucks were carrying almost no goods at all. …read more Source: The New York...
Russia Denies Ukraine Incursion
While the Russian humanitarian aid convoy travelling to Ukraine comes to halt, Russia is accused of military action on the Ukraine border. …read more Source: The Boston...
Markets Sink as Ukraine-Russia Tensions Heat Up
Confusion at the Ukrainian-Russian border. A large caravan of Russian trucks seen here heading toward the border. Ukraine says it destroyed part of the convoy that crossed the borderline last night. Russia denies its trucks crossed the line, accusing Ukraine of trying to block what it calls humanitarian aid. Adding to confusion -NATO says there...
Russia Denies Its Vehicles Destroyed in Ukraine
KAMENSK-SHAKHTINSKY, Russia—NATO on Friday said a Russian military column ventured overnight into Ukraine, and the Ukrainian president said his forces destroyed most of it. Russia denied all of this, but the reports spooked global markets and overshadowed optimism driven by agreement over a Russian aid convoy bound for eastern Ukraine. The...
