Section: US & Canada
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:...
Here’s What We Know About Today’s Apparent Confrontation Between The Russian and Ukrainian Militaries
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko released a statement today claiming that Ukrainian forces have destroyed the majority of a Russian military convoy inside of eastern Ukraine. The Russian Foreign Ministry has also released a statement drawing attention to “the sharp intensification of military action by Ukrainian forces with the apparent...
Photos: Ukrainians Struggle to Live a Normal Life in Warzone
After Russian military vehicles escorting a convoy of trucks they claimed contained humanitarian aid crossed the border into Ukraine overnight, Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko confirmed that artillery destroyed a “significant” part of the armored column, Reuters reports. Several governments including the United States and...
Ukraine says it ‘destroyed’ part of Russian military convoy
The Russian military vehicles reportedly crossed the border in advance of an aid convoy. …read more Source: USA...
Russia denies its vehicles destroyed in Ukraine
Russian solders with their several military vehicle gather at the rail road crossing about 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Ukrainian border at Rostov-on-Don region, Russia, early Friday, Aug. 15… …read more Source: The Bismarck...
Russia’s Half-Empty Humanitarian Convoy Just Might Start a War With Ukraine
Russia’s humanitarian aid convoy is no Trojan Horse, but that doesn’t matter—what’s inside the trucks is less important than what’s behind them. The convoy is currently parked at the Russia-Ukraine border, waiting f …read more Source: The New...
Obama to travel to Estonia to meet with Baltic leaders on Ukraine
President Barack Obama will travel to Estonia early next month to reaffirm the United States’ commitment to defend NATO allies in a Baltic region nervous about Russia’s activities in Ukraine. …read more Source: Miami...
RCAF C-17 and C-130J to transport military supplies to Kurds fighting Islamic extremists
Canada is committing two cargo planes to move military supplies into northern Iraq as part of the international effort to bolster Kurdish forces in the embattled region, the Canadian Press has reported. More from Canadian Press: Prime Minister Stephen Harper says a CC-177 Globemaster and a CC-130J Hercules transport will begin shuttling arms...
