Section: Associated Press (USA)
Sinister text messages reveal high-tech front in Ukraine war
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Television journalist Julia Kirienko was sheltering with Ukrainian soldiers and medics two miles (three kilometers) from the front when their cellphones began buzzing over the noise of the shelling. Everyone got the same text message at the same time…. …read more Source: Associated...
In Ukraine, feeling grows that the east is lost to Russia
MINSK, Belarus (AP) — Leonid Androv, an electrician from Kiev, was drafted into the Ukrainian army and spent a year fighting Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine after the conflict broke out in 2014. Now, like many other Ukrainians, he is ready to accept that those lands are lost…. …read more Source: Associated...
The Latest: Putin to discuss Ukraine, Syria with Merkel
MOSCOW (AP) — The Latest on German Chancellor Angela Merkel's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin (all times local):… …read more Source: Associated...
AP Photos: Chernobyl’s ghost town draws daring visitors
PRIPYAT, Ukraine (AP) — A bulletin board in the Ukrainian town of Pripyat still bears an edition of the Sovietsky Patriot newspaper, dated three days before the nuclear explosion that turned the city into one of the world's most baleful ghost towns…. …read more Source: Associated...
Records match some Ukraine ledger payments to ex-Trump aide
WASHINGTON (AP) — A firm headed by Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, received more than $1.2 million in payments that match a ledger that Ukrainian investigators say reflect off-the-books payments from a pro-Russian political party…. …read more Source: Associated...
Russia, Ukraine at odds over singer’s Eurovision performance
GENEVA (AP) — Eurovision song contest organizers say they have taken the unprecedented step of offering to let Russia's contestant perform via satellite after authorities in host Ukraine banned her from entering the country – a proposal that was immediately rejected by a Russian state broadcaster…. …read more Source:...
Former Russian lawmaker shot dead in Ukraine
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian police say former Russian lawmaker Denis Voronenkov has been shot and killed in Kiev…. …read more Source: Associated...
20,000 evacuated after fire at military arsenal in Ukraine
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials say around 20,000 people have been evacuated in the Kharkiv region near the border with Russia after a massive fire at a military ammunition depot…. …read more Source: Associated...
Ukraine lawmaker: Manafort tried to hide $750,000 payment
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian lawmaker on Tuesday released a document that he said links Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort to attempts to hide a $750,000 payment from a pro-Russia political party – a claim strongly denied by Manafort's spokesman…. …read more Source: Associated...
Foreign couple arrested in UAE for unwed sex is released
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African man and his pregnant Ukrainian fiancee won't face charges in the United Arab Emirates following their arrest for having sex outside of marriage, a South African newspaper reported Friday…. …read more Source: Associated...
