Section: CNS News (USA)
Ukraine asks Russia for lower gas prices for winter season
MOSCOW (AP) — Emboldened by a deal with international creditors to write down part of its debt, Ukraine is asking Russia for lower gas prices for the winter season. …read more Source: CNS...
Ukrainian official says 7 troops killed in eastern Ukraine
MOSCOW (AP) — A Ukrainian official says seven government troops have been killed and 13 injured in the past 24 hours, a day after the warring sides said they had agreed to a cease-fire starting next week. …read more Source: CNS...
Ukraine reaches debt relief deal with creditors
MOSCOW (AP) — Ukraine has reached a crucial deal with its international bondholders that will help prop up its government finances and keep the struggling country from defaulting on its debt. …read more Source: CNS...
Ukrainian prime minister says government has reached debt restructuring deal with creditors
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian prime minister says government has reached debt restructuring deal with creditors . …read more Source: CNS...
Obama and German leader discuss violence in Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany have discussed the recent rise in violence in eastern Ukraine from increased attacks by combined Russian-separatist forces. …read more Source: CNS...
Ukraine negotiators call for school-start truce
MINSK, Belarus (AP) — The warring sides in the eastern Ukraine conflict have called for a cease-fire on Sept. 1, the day that the new school year is to begin. …read more Source: CNS...
A look at recent politically tainted trials in Russia
MOSCOW (AP) — The guilty verdict Tuesday for Crimean filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in a Russian maximum-security prison for an alleged terror conspiracy, follows a plethora of recent Russian trials that are widely seen as warnings to society not to question its Kremlin rulers. …read more Source: CNS...
Ukraine vows to increase troops to fend off rebel attacks
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president vowed to increase troop numbers to fend off attacks by Russia-backed separatist rebels and warned his countrymen that there is still the threat of a “large-scale invasion,” in an impassioned speech to mark Independence Day on Monday. …read more Source: CNS...
Kiev celebrates Ukrainian Independence Day
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Thousands of servicemen have marched in downtown Kiev to mark Ukraine’s Independence Day. …read more Source: CNS...
Remains of WWII German soldiers found in Kiev
MOSCOW (AP) — A Ukrainian newspaper says Ukrainian and German servicemen have found remains of about 200 German soldiers buried in Kiev during the German occupation in World War II. …read more Source: CNS...
