Section: US & Canada
U.N. Report Details Casualties in Eastern Ukraine
A total of 356 people were known to have been killed since mid-April and thousands have fled their homes amid rising violence, insecurity and crime, the report said. …read more Source: The New York...
Ukraine’s Poroshenko Promises Unilateral Cease-Fire
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko has announced plans for a unilateral cease-fire in eastern Ukraine, where government forces are fighting pro-Russian separatists. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Poroshenko’s Right Hand Man Emerges
In one of his first moves, new Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has named media mogul Boris Lozhkin as his chief of staff. Is he the “anticrisis manager” that can get the government to focus on the tasks at hand without unnecessary power struggles? …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukrainian President Proposes Cease-Fire
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has proposed instituting a unilateral cease-fire in eastern Ukraine as part of a peace plan to address months of conflict in the region. Russian news agencies quoted Poroshenko on Wednesday as saying the cease-fire would give separatist fighters the opportunity to disarm and those who want to leave the country...
Putin and Poroshenko Discuss Possible Cease-Fire in Ukraine
In a late-night telephone conversation, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and President Petro O. Poroshenko of Ukraine, also touched on the deaths of two Russian journalists in Ukraine. …read more Source: The New York...
Poroshenko And Putin Hold Talks
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have spoken about a possible ceasefire in eastern Ukraine where Ukrainian forces have been clashing with pro-Russian separatists. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine Suspects Terrorism in Pipeline Explosion
Ukrainian officials suspect that terrorists blew up a natural gas pipeline a day after the Russian energy giant Gazprom said it was cutting off supplies to Ukraine in a dispute over pricing. …read more Source: The New York...
In Kyiv, Calls for New Parliament
Thousands of students and anti-Russian activists gathered outside Ukraine’s parliament Tuesday for its first full session since the new president was sworn in. While Ukraine’s revolution was supposed to have ended with February’s ouster of pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych, some demonstrators say those violent...
Ukraine Mulls Security, Including Building Wall Along Russia Border
Ukraine’s leaders are puzzling over how to cut off Russian support for a separatist rebellion in the east of the country but one of its richest men thinks he has the answer. Billionaire businessman Ihor Kolomoisky has suggested building a wall along the almost 2,000 km (1,200-mile) land border with Russia to prevent fighters and weapons...
Ukraine Suspects Attack in Gas Pipeline Blast
An explosion in central Ukraine’s Poltava region Tuesday hit a section of the largest transit pipeline for Russian natural gas to western Europe, in what one Ukrainian official said may have been a terrorist act. Ukraine’s Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said several theories for the cause of the explosion were being considered, the...
