Section: US & Canada
Prisoners escape shelled jail in east Ukraine
Scores of panicked inmates escape when shells rain down on a high-security prison in eastern Ukraine during heavy fighting between government forces and pro-Moscow rebels, authorities say. Video provided by AFP …read more Source: USA...
Ukraine Says It Will Block Russian Aid Convoy
Ukrainian officials said they will not allow Russian trucks to cross the border after Moscow said it was sending a convoy to deliver humanitarian aid to besieged residents in rebel-held eastern Ukraine. Russia said Tuesday it was sending 280 truckloads of relief supplies to residents of eastern Ukraine, who are caught in the conflict between...
Ukraine says Russian aid can enter under scrutiny of Red Cross
A convoy of 280 Russian trucks reportedly packed with aid headed for eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, but Kyiv said it would only allow the goods through under the close supervision of the international Red Cross. …read more Source:...
With the Ukrainian President
Kiev, August 11, 2014 I had not seen Petro Poroshenko since his election. He greeted me in a large panelled room where the gold leaf had an oddly rosy tint. Ukrainian television cameras ran for the first few minutes of our interview. The president brought up our initial encounter in the Maidan that Sunday in February, at a time when the fate of...
John Kerry sees hope for easing of Ukraine tensions
The Obama administration is cautiously hopeful diplomacy can ease tensions between Ukraine and Russia over Moscow’s insistence on sending humanitarian aid to pro-Russian areas of eastern Ukraine, U.S. …read more Source: New York Daily...
Wary Ukraine Sets Conditions for Russian Aid Convoy
A Russian convoy of 280 trucks carrying humanitarian aid for Ukraine set off on Tuesday. …read more Source:...
Ukraine to deny access to Russian aid convoy
Some fear the aid shipment may be a pretext for sending in Russian troops …read more Source: USA...
Obama’s Hidden-Hand Foreign Policy
Over six years of his presidency, President Obama has pursued a down-sized foreign policy that has mixed diplomacy, sanctions and force in varying measures to protect American national security interests abroad — without involving US ground forces. Obama began this approach from Day 1 of his presidency when he negotiated the withdrawal of...
Ukraine: Russia aid can enter with Red Cross role
MOSCOW — A convoy of 280 Russian trucks reportedly packed with aid headed for eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, but Kiev said it would only allow the goods through under the close supervision of the international Red Cross.A Ukrainian security spokesman said the convoy of vehicles was being managed by the Russian army and that it could not be...
Russian Convoy Carrying Humanitarian Aid Sets Off for Ukraine
Russian convoy of 280 trucks carrying humanitarian aid for Ukraine set off on Tuesday (August 12) amid Western warnings against using help as a pretext for an invasion. With Ukraine reporting Russia has massed 45,000 troops on its border, NATO said there was a “high probability” that Moscow could intervene militarily in the...
