Section: Associated Press (USA)
Ukraine rebels: a disunited front run by warlords
PEREVALSK, Ukraine (AP) — They don’t call Nikolai Kozitsyn “Daddy” for nothing. In this rebel-held eastern Ukrainian town, the mustachioed Cossack lords it over the locals and pays little heed to the bosses of the breakaway movement…. …read more Source: Associated...
Report: Russia-West military encounters rising
LONDON (AP) — A London-based think tank says Russian forces have been involved in dozens of close encounters with Western militaries since Moscow annexed Crimea – and that both sides risk losing control over events…. …read more Source: Associated...
How the Ukrainian peace deal is faring
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Two months after Ukraine signed a truce with pro-Russian rebels, daily fighting continues in the east and other key conditions of the deal haven’t been met. Despite persisting hostilities, Russia and Ukraine have struck a multibillion-dollar gas deal that has eased fears that Russian gas supply to Europe might be...
Ukraine says it will probe school shelling in east
DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Authorities in Ukraine say security services will investigate the shelling of a school in the rebel-held east that left two teenagers dead and four others injured…. …read more Source: Associated...
Poland unveils its new national defense strategy
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski on Wednesday signed into law a new national defense strategy aimed at addressing threats to regional security caused by two factors: the fighting in Ukraine and Russia’s “intensifying policy of confrontation.”… …read more Source: Associated...
AP PHOTOS: Top pictures from Europe and Africa
LONDON (AP) — On the week when the world celebrated Halloween, pro-Russian rebels came up with a tactic to scare Ukraine’s pro-Western government in Kiev – holding a rebel election in separatist eastern Ukraine. Ukraine and the West denounced the vote as illegitimate…. …read more Source: Associated...
Coal miners stuck in the middle of Ukraine’s war
DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Glistening black sweat rolls down the spine of a beefy miner as he jackhammers bedrock along the shaft at the Chelyuskintsev coal mine in Donetsk, Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland…. …read more Source: Associated...
Central Europe, Britain oppose Ukraine rebel vote
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — The foreign ministers of four Central European countries and Britain have condemned a plan by pro-Russia insurgents in eastern Ukraine to hold local elections…. …read more Source: Associated...
Brutal winter set to hit war-torn eastern Ukraine
DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Dark tunnels in the basement of a bombed-out hospital in the eastern city of Donetsk lead to a makeshift shelter. Opening the door hardly alleviates the gloom, for the only lighting inside is the flicker of handmade oil lamps…. …read more Source: Associated...
Ukraine’s parliament to remain a rowdy place
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Anti-corruption crusaders, paramilitary commanders, radical ultranationalists, remnants of the disgraced former president’s entourage…. …read more Source: Associated...
