Section: US & Canada
Ukrainian Troops Killed As Forces Step Up Attacks On Rebels
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Four Ukrainian troops were killed as forces carried out over 100 attacks on rebel positions and cleared separatists from three villages in the last day, a military official said Wednesday. Fighting in the country’s east has increased since a much-violated 10-day cease-fire was allowed to expire Monday. President...
Ukrainian Forces Detain Horlivka Rebel Leader
Ukrainian forces said they detained a top pro-Russian separatist leader on July 1. Video distributed by Ukraine’s SBU state security service shows soldiers arresting a man identified as the self-proclaimed mayor of the town of Horlivka, Volodymyr Kolosnyuk, in Berdyansk near Zaporizhzhya. NOTE: There is no audio on this video. (Reuters)...
Russia Buries Cameraman Killed In Eastern Ukraine
A funeral ceremony for Russian television journalist Anatoly Klyan killed in eastern Ukraine was held July 2 in Moscow. His body was lying in state at the main studio of state-controlled Channel One, where the 68-year-old cameraman had worked, as mourners queued to lay flowers. Klyan died after being shot in the stomach on June 30 in...
Russian Gas: How Much Is That?
A study of data on Russian gas sales shows wide variance in prices between countries. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Mortar attack on border post leave one dead, 8 wounded: Ukraine
Ukraine’s border guards service says a serviceman was killed and eight were wounded when a post on the border with Russia came under heavy mortar attack. …read more Source: CTV...
Guard killed in attack on border post, Ukraine says
Ukraine’s border guards service says a serviceman was killed and eight were wounded when a post on the border with Russia came under heavy mortar attack. …read more Source: FOX...
Ukraine says border guard killed in mortar attack on border post; 8 others wounded
Ukraine’s border guards service says a serviceman was killed and eight were wounded when a post on the border with Russia came under heavy mortar attack. …read more Source: FOX...
Reports: Berlin July 2 Meeting On Ukraine Crisis
Reports citing French diplomatic sources, reports say the foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, France, and Germany are to meet in Berlin on July 2 to discuss the Ukrainian crisis. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Crisis Hits Tourism, Business in Ukraine’s Odessa
While the separatist crisis continues in two small regions of eastern Ukraine, the rest of the country is trying to return to business as usual, including the port and resort city of Odessa in the south. The impact in Odessa continues from the revolution. As the summer tourist season gets under way, Odessa’s main pedestrianized street of...
Putin Accuses US of ‘Blackmailing’ France Out of Warship Sale
President Vladimir Putin accused the United States on Tuesday of using fines against French banks to “blackmail” Paris into calling off its sale of Mistral warships to Russia as punishment for Moscow’s role in the conflict in Ukraine. U.S. authorities imposed a record fine of almost $9 billion against French bank BNP Paribas,...
