Section: US & Canada
As Ukraine Escalation Fears Rise, A Flurry Of Diplomacy
A tense 24 hours that saw claims of direct military conflict between Ukraine and Russia sparked a burst of diplomatic scrambling as top officials moved to head off further escalation of the crisis. After Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced that Ukrainian forces had destroyed a Russian military column that had entered Ukraine’s...
Russia denies its vehicles destroyed in Ukraine
KAMENSK-SHAKHTINSKY, Russia (AP) – 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 … …read more...
Ukrainian court nixes controversial Jewish heritage projects in Lviv
(JTA) — A Ukrainian supreme court forbade the Municipality of Lviv from going ahead with controversial plans for commemorating Jewish heritage sites. The Supreme Economic Court of Ukraine issued its ruling Wednesday against the city’s plans to design and build projects that would commemorate three Jewish sites instead of restoring them. In...
Ukraine says it has destroyed part of armed convoy from Russia
Ukraine said its troops attacked and partially destroyed a column of armed vehicles that had crossed the border from Russian territory, while Russia said it was concerned about an attack on another convoy carrying aid. …read more Source: Calgary...
Russia Lets Ukraine Inspect Aid Convoy
KAMENSK-SHAKHTINSKY, Russia — Russia let Ukrainian officials inspect an aid convoy on Friday and agreed to let the Red Cross distribute the aid around the rebel-held city of Luhansk, easing tensions and dispelling Ukrainian fears that the aid operation is a ruse to get military help to separatist rebels. In violation of an earlier tentative...
Ukraine: Russian APCs Destroyed Near Border; Moscow Calls Report ‘Fantasy’
Government troops destroyed a column of military vehicles that crossed into eastern Ukraine from Russia, Ukraine’s president said Friday, as a convoy of Russian trucks purportedly carrying humanitarian aid remained stalled near the border awaiting inspection. The incident, which NATO confirmed and said involved Russian weaponry, was...
In Shell-torn Luhansk, Food and Water is Scarce: ‘Welcome to Hell!’
On a hot afternoon in August in Ukraine, in the industrial pro-Russian rebel-held city of Luhansk, the Brooklyn-born war photographer Stanley Greene, on assignment for Newsweek, realized the odor wafting through the apartment of a family he was visiting was the familiar smell of death. “There was constant shelling,” says Greene– who began...
Russia Invades Ukraine? Kiev Says It ‘Destroys’ Russian Military Elements Inside Borders
Ukrainian forces say they “destroyed” part of what President Petro Poroshenko called a Russian military column late Thursday night, around when a Russian humanitarian aid mission crossed the border. Ukraine has yet to confirm what type of equipment was destroyed, but said its artillery destroyed “much of it” overnight. …read more Source:...
Ukraine says it destroyed military vehicles that crossed from Russia
Ukraine’s president said Friday that the country’s forces destroyed “a significant part” of a Russian military convoy that crossed into Ukrainian territory during the night, a charge denied by Russia. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Merkel to Putin: Halt flow of arms to Ukraine
The German government says Chancellor Angela Merkel has pressed Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the flow of military goods and personnel into Ukraine ahead of a weekend meeting of foreign ministers aimed at easing tensions. …read more Source: Miami...
