Section: Associated Press (USA)
Ukraine’s rebel center in limbo as fighting dies down
DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — The fighting has subsided, but Donetsk is quickly sinking into the past – a shabby Soviet-like state of empty streets and deprivation. Huge portraits of Josef Stalin hanging in the city center only reinforce the impression of failure…. …read more Source: Associated...
Ukraine faces years of dependence on Western aid
VELYKI PRYTSKY, Ukraine (AP) — Looking on from her vegetable patch at the motorcade of U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, Ukrainian villager Olha Voloshchenko says she'd seen the lady on the TV news the night before, but "then the lights went off at our place."… …read more Source: Associated...
Ukraine holds local elections that test oligarchs’ reach
MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainians voted Sunday in local elections seen as a test of strength for President Petro Poroshenko's government and for the oligarchs accustomed to running their own regions, but a last-minute dispute blocked the ballot in a key port city…. …read more Source: Associated...
Ukraine gives Russia 2 weeks to agree to debt restructuring
MOSCOW (AP) — Ukraine on Thursday gave Russia two weeks to accept to write off part of its loans to the country, as other international creditors have agreed to do, opening a new front in the show-down between the countries…. …read more Source: Associated...
Dutch Safety Board: Buk missile downed MH17 in Ukraine
GILZE-RIJEN AIR BASE, Netherlands (AP) — A missile launched from rebel-held Ukraine ripped the cockpit from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, Dutch investigators reported Tuesday, adding that some passengers may have remained conscious for another minute or so as the airflow tore off their clothes and objects spinning through the cabin killed...
The Latest: MH17 downed by missile that no one anticipated
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The latest news on the report into the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight 17 in eastern Ukraine last year. All times local…. …read more Source: Associated...
The Latest: Relatives told Buk missile downed MH17
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The latest news on the report into the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight 17 in eastern Ukraine last year. All times local…. …read more Source: Associated...
UN: Polio vaccines in Ukraine safe despite local concerns
LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization says it's worried that millions of doses of polio vaccine might be wasted in Ukraine after a patient group raised concerns that the doses are unsafe…. …read more Source: Associated...
Ukraine rebels to delay local election, sidestep tense topic
MOSCOW (AP) — Officials in rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine announced Tuesday they will postpone local elections that were going to be held shortly, sidestepping a contentious issue that had blocked progress toward a resolution for the war in Ukraine…. …read more Source: Associated...
The Latest: Poland to host refugees from Ukraine, Kazakhstan
PARIS (AP) — The latest developments as European governments struggle to cope with the huge number of people moving across Europe. All times local:… …read more Source: Associated...
