Section: US & Canada
Ukraine orphans become pawns in civil conflict
Tamara Popova and her fellow orphans are adamant: They don’t want to go to Russia. The separatist gunmen running this eastern Ukrainian city aren’t asking. They’re giving orders. …read more Source: Miami...
Russia Demands United States Releases Accused Hacker Roman Seleznev Immediately
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday it had issued an official protest to the United States demanding immediate release of a Russian citizen detained last week on hacking charges. Moscow accused Washington of kidnapping Roman Seleznev who was detained at an airport in the Maldives and accused of hacking into U.S....
Russia Invites Diplomats to Visit Site of Alleged Shell Attack
Russian has invited diplomats from 18 countries to visit a border town where it says a Ukrainian shell has killed one person. Russia’s Defense Ministry says the visit by foreign military specialists and journalists will take place Tuesday in the Rostov region. The deputy defense minister has called the planned visit “an act of...
Russia asks envoys to visit town it says was hit by Ukraine shelling
Russia has asked military attaches from 18 countries including the United States to visit a town in the Rostov region on Tuesday where Moscow says a shell fired from across the border in Ukraine killed one person …read more Source: The Globe and...
Russian invites diplomats to inspect shelling site
Russia has invited foreign military attaches to visit a border town where Moscow claims a Ukrainian shell has killed one person. …read more Source: Miami...
Russia invites foreign military attaches to inspect site of alleged Ukrainian shelling
Russia has invited foreign military attaches to visit a border town where Moscow claims a Ukrainian shell has killed one person. …read more Source: FOX...
Russian invites diplomats to inspect shelling site
Pro-Russian rebels and Ukrainian government troops have fought each other for three months in eastern Ukraine, killing more than 400 people and displacing tens of thousands. Russian news agencies quoted Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov on Tuesday saying the 18 attaches and a group of foreign journalists will visit the site this afternoon....
World Briefs: Downed plane rouses Ukraine
KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s government said Russian forces may have shot down one of its airplanes to bolster the Kremlin-backed insurgency amid a European push for peace talks that Germany expects to inch forward today. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...
U.S. Says Moscow Giving Ukraine Rebels Weapons
The United States has accused Russia of supporting separatists in eastern Ukraine with military hardware, including tanks. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukrainian military plane shot down by rocket
A Ukrainian military transport plane was shot down Monday along the country’s eastern border with Russia but all eight people aboard managed to bail out safely, the defense ministry said. Ukraine’s Security Council spokesman Andrei Lysenko said data from the plane’s surviving crew suggested the rocket was either a surface-to-air...
