Section: International Business Times (USA)
European Union Considers New Sanctions Against Russia Amid East Ukraine Offensive
Foreign ministers for the 28 member states of the European Union will meet on Thursday to discuss additional sanctions against Russia, after pro-Russian rebels commenced a new, deadly offensive in East Ukraine. The EU has drafted a statement saying that it will add new individuals to the sanctions list and extend current sanctions by six months.,...
Ukraine Parliament Votes To Call Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics Terrorist Groups
The Ukrainian parliament passed a vote on Tuesday officially declaring Russia as an aggressor state and naming the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics as terrorist organizations. The vote, which passed 271 to 27 in the 450-seat Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, encourages Ukraine’s partners to hold Russia...
NATO Secretary General Reaffirms Support For Ukraine, But Refuses Lethal Military Aid
During an extraordinary meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Commission on Monday, Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg reaffirmed the alliance’s support for Ukraine and continued the group’s call for Russia to cease its support of pro-Russian rebels. The statement from Stoltenberg comes on the same day the Kiev government asked for...
Seven Ukrainian Soldiers Killed In Past 24 Hours: Kiev Military
(Reuters) – Seven Ukrainian servicemen have been killed and 24 wounded in fighting in separatist eastern territories in the past 24 hours, Kiev military spokesman Vladislav Seleznyov said on Monday. Fighting in eastern Ukraine is at its worst level since a ceasefire was agreed last September. The rebels have launched an offensive on the...
Ukraine’s President Claims Intercepted Calls Prove Pro-Russian Rebels Attacked Mariupol, Killed 30
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko said Sunday that intercepted radio conversations and telephone calls prove that pro-Russian separatists were responsible for firing rockets that killed at least 30 people in the city of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine on Saturday. …read more Source: International Business...
Obama Promises Steps Against Russian-Backed ‘Aggression’ As Rebels Press Ukraine Offensive
(Reuters) – Pro-Moscow rebels, backed by what NATO says is the open participation of Russian troops, pressed on with their offensive on Sunday after restarting the war in eastern Ukraine with the first all-out assault since a truce five months ago. U.S. President Barack Obama said Washington was considering all options short of military...
Russia Blocks U.N. Statement On Ukraine As Fighting Escalates
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Russia prevented the U.N. Security Council on Saturday from criticizing statements by pro-Russian Ukrainian rebels and condemning an upsurge in violence that has claimed dozens of lives in Ukraine, council diplomats said. Pro-Russian rebels have launched an offensive against the strategic port of Mariupol in...
John Kerry Condemns Attack On Ukraine, Threatens Russia
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry condemned an attack by pro-Russian rebels on civilian neighborhoods in eastern Ukraine that killed at least 30 people Saturday. “I join my European counterparts in condemning in the strongest terms today’s horrific assault by Russian-backed separatists on civilian neighborhoods in Mariupol,” Kerry said in...
Pro-Russian Rebels Attack Key Port, Ukraine Says At Least 30 Dead
(Reuters) – Pro-Russian rebels launched an offensive against the strategic port of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine on Saturday, prompting the European Union’s foreign policy chief to warn of a further “grave deterioration” in EU-Russian relations. Mariupol’s city administration said the rebels had killed at least 30...
In War-Torn East Ukraine, Donetsk Faces Starvation As City Is Isolated
DONETSK, Ukraine — In a small kitchen in an apartment in this war-torn city, Tamara Bilan placed some bread next to a plate of cookies. That was all she had to offer a visitor, and all she had to eat herself. The 67-year old pensioner had made both the bread and cookies with ingredients she got through food-aid distribution in the city....
