Section: Boston Herald (USA)
Ukraine: Air Force jet downed by Russian missile
KIEV, Ukraine — An Air Force fighter jet has been shot down by an air-to-air missile fired from a Russian plane, a spokesman for Ukraine’s Security Council said Thursday.Andrei Lysenko also said Ukrainian troops had been fired upon by missiles from a village just inside Russia.Officials in Kiev have recently accused Russia’s...
Urban warfare feared in Ukraine fighting
KIEV, Ukraine — Insurgents bade tearful farewells Wednesday as they loaded their families onto Russia-bound buses and began hunkering down for what could be the next phase in Ukraine’s conflict: bloody urban warfare.While the pro-Russian rebels in the east have lost much ground in recent weeks and were driven from their stronghold of...
Pentagon: More Russian troops on Ukraine border
WASHINGTON — Russian combat troops are again building up along the border with Ukraine, and U.S. officials believe Moscow may be sending heavy weapons into the country to aid the separatists, the Pentagon said Wednesday.Army Col. Steve Warren told reporters the U.S. believes there are now up to 12,000 Russia troops on the border, reflecting...
Ukraine rebels reclaim village on Russian border
DONETSK, Ukraine — Separatist rebels in east Ukraine say they have retaken a village near the Russian border from government forces as they attempt to regain territory.Sergei Kavtaradze, a spokesman for a separatist group that calls itself the Donetsk People’s Republic, said one rebel militiaman was killed and another 15 injured in...
Biden to Ukraine: US, Europe weighing Russia costs
WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden is telling Ukraine’s leader that the U.S. and Europe are talking about imposing new costs on Russia for continuing to escalate the conflict in Ukraine.Biden and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko spoke by phone on Tuesday. The White House says they discussed how Russia is continuing to support...
Ukraine: Military plane shot down by rocket
KIEV, Ukraine — A Ukrainian military transport plane was shot down Monday along the country’s eastern border with Russia, the defense minister said.Rebels in conflict-wracked eastern Ukraine immediately claimed responsibility for downing the Antonov-26 but Ukrainian Defense Minister Valeriy Heletey said the rocket may have been fired...
Fierce fighting near rebel-held city in Ukraine
KIEV, Ukraine — Fighting intensified Monday around the eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk as government forces stepped up efforts to disrupt rebel lines and reclaim more territory from the faltering insurgency. One resident said panic was gripping the city.In the last two weeks, the government has halved the territory held by pro-Russia...
Ukrainian charged with Russian journalists' deaths
MOSCOW — A Ukrainian air force pilot who was captured by separatist rebels last month has been arrested in Russia and charged with abetting the killing of two Russian journalists, Russian officials said on Wednesday.Ukraine has been rocked by fighting between pro-Russia rebels and government forces for over three months. Igor Kornelyuk and...
