Section: Boston Herald (USA)
Russia's top radio station slapped by government
MOSCOW — The Russian government’s communications watchdog has issued a warning to a top independent radio station over a program about Ukraine.Roskomnadzor’s warning to Ekho Moskvy related to this week’s program, in which two journalists exchanged first-hand accounts of fighting between pro-Russia rebels and government forces in...
Poland in defense shift as security concerns rise
WARSAW, Poland — Poland is planning a major realignment of its military structure because of the conflict in neighboring Ukraine, the country’s defense minister said Monday, a move that could shift thousands of troops to its eastern border.”The geopolitical situation has changed. We have the biggest crisis of security since the Cold...
Poland in defense shift as anti-Russia mood grows
WARSAW, Poland — Poland is planning a major realignment of its military structure because of the conflict in neighboring Ukraine, the country’s defense minister said Monday, a move that could shift thousands of troops to its eastern border.”The geopolitical situation has changed. We have the biggest crisis of security since the Cold...
APNewsBreak: Poland to move 1,000s of troops east
WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s defense minister tells The Associated Press that the country will move thousands of troops toward its eastern borders in a historic realignment of a military structure built in the Cold War.Tomasz Siemoniak says the troops are needed in the east because of the conflict in neighboring Ukraine.He said Monday that at...
Monitors: Ukraine vote respected key freedoms
KIEV, Ukraine — International observers monitoring Ukraine’s parliamentary election have hailed the vote as a step forward in building democratic standards despite the unrest in eastern Ukraine.Kent Harstedt of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said Monday that the election Sunday offered voters a real choice and...
Darth Vader hopes force with him in Ukraine polls
KIEV, Ukraine — One candidate in Ukraine’s parliamentary elections hopes to bring voters to the dark side: Darth Alekseyevich Vader.Dressed in full Star Wars regalia, Vader prowls the streets of Kiev atop his black campaign van wooing voters with promises to turn Ukraine into a “galactic empire.” So serious is he about his...
Ukraine, Russia end gas talks without breakthrough
BRUSSELS — Ukraine and Russia on Tuesday failed to get a decisive breakthrough in their standoff over gas supplies to Kiev and will resume European Union-sponsored talks next week.Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukraine counterpart Petro Poroshenko had agreed on a broad thrust of a deal on Friday, but the issues on how, when and how much...
Ukraine parliament says 100s died in battle
KIEV, Ukraine — A report by Ukraine’s parliament revealed Monday that more than 300 soldiers were killed during a weeks-long battle that marked a crushing setback in the military campaign to root out pro-Russian separatist forces in the east.The report is the first official confirmation of the scale of a defeat in the city of Ilovaisk that...
Powerful explosion rocks rebel-held Ukrainian city
DONETSK, Ukraine — A powerful explosion has shaken the largest rebel-controlled city in eastern Ukraine as daily battles continue in the region despite a nominal cease-fire being in place.Shockwaves from the explosion Monday damaged buildings and were felt over a radius of several kilometers.It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the...
NATO chief: no big Russian withdrawal near Ukraine
THESSALONIKI, Greece — NATO’s top military commander says the alliance would welcome the withdrawal of Russian troops from a Russian region bordering Ukraine, but that it has seen no “major movement” so far.U.S. Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove, the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, told The Associated Press in Thessaloniki...
