Section: Los Angeles Times (USA)
Inside Debaltseve: War-weary Ukrainians welcome pause
Shell-shocked, exhausted and hungry, the residents of this nearly destroyed city are slowly emerging from their basements and bomb shelters to begin the arduous process of piecing their lives back together after living through months of some of the worst fighting in Ukraine’s… …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Bomb blast at pro-Ukraine rally in Kharkiv kills 2; Kiev blames Russia
A homemade bomb apparently hidden in a thin layer of snow exploded Sunday during a pro-Ukraine march in the eastern industrial city of Kharkiv, killing at least two people and wounding 11, authorities said. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Ukraine appeal for U.N. peacekeepers unlikely to succeed
Ukrainian national security leaders have appealed for a United Nations peacekeeping force in the separatist-occupied eastern regions of the country, but the call was immediately rejected Thursday by the insurgents and their Russian backers. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Ukrainian troops withdraw from rail junction in Debaltseve
Ukraine has pulled most of its troops out of Debaltseve, the president confirmed Wednesday. Dozens of troops were seen retreating and Russia-backed separatists reported taking hundreds of soldiers captive as they continued their onslaught on the strategic railroad junction in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Days into truce, fighting rages on at Ukrainian rail junction
Ukrainian troops and separatists battled for control of the strategic railway junction of Debeltseve on Tuesday, with each side blaming the other for violating a weekend cease-fire meant to end 10 months of combat in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Despite cease-fire, five Ukraine soldiers killed in fight for rail hub
Ukraine accused pro-Russian separatists of launching 112 attacks on government positions during the first day of a cease-fire as both sides cast doubt on their likelihood to comply with the next stage of the peace plan — withdrawing heavy weaponry from the war zone. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Ukraine cease-fire mostly holds; each side accuses other of violations
The battlefields of eastern Ukraine fell mostly silent Sunday as a shaky cease-fire went into effect, but both sides in the fight between Russia-backed separatists and the Ukrainian government accused the other of sporadic small arms and mortar fire. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Deadly attacks continue in eastern Ukraine in hours before cease-fire
Lethal shelling continued to rock towns in war-torn eastern Ukraine late Saturday, as the hours ticked down toward a Sunday cease-fire. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Hands-off strategy in Ukraine spurs critics of Obama’s foreign policy
U.S. officials led the negotiations that ended European wars in Bosnia, Kosovo and Georgia in recent decades, just as they guided the talks in 1945 that ended World War II. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Ukraine fighting surges ahead of cease-fire, at least 25 killed
Massive artillery barrages hit a strategic railway junction in eastern Ukraine on Friday as Russia-backed separatists intensified their efforts to take Debaltseve from Ukrainian government forces ahead of the Sunday start of a cease-fire, Ukrainian officials reported. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
