Section: Los Angeles Times (USA)
U.N. warns both sides in Ukraine conflict over rising civilian deaths
Ukrainian government troops and pro-Russia separatists are increasingly engaging in “indiscriminate shelling” that has killed at least 224 civilians over a recent three-week period and imperils millions living in the eastern Ukraine war zones, the United Nations’ top human rights official… …read more Source: Los...
Ukraine fighting intensifies after talks fail to reach truce accord
Fighting intensified in eastern Ukraine on Sunday, one day after representatives of the government and pro-Russia separatists failed to reach a truce at a meeting brokered by Russian and international mediators. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Pro-Russia separatists say they’ve trapped thousands of Ukraine troops
Pro-Russia separatists claimed Saturday that they had trapped thousands of Ukrainian government troops in the course of fierce fighting in Ukraine’s troubled east. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
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A Ukrainian army officer held by Russian authorities was transferred from a prison to a hospital Thursday after losing more than 60 pounds during a hunger strike to challenge her arrest, her lawyer said. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
How Ukraine’s outgunned ‘cyborgs’ lost Donetsk airport
The Ukrainian platoon commander sat in a burned-out armored vehicle on the edge of the Donetsk airport runway with the body of his comrade in the driver’s seat next to him. He could hear the separatist fighters who had killed the man just yards away in the thick fog. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Missile attacks kill 26 civilians and wound 80 in Ukraine
Twenty-six civilians were killed and another 80 wounded in missile attacks Saturday on Mariupol, an industrial center and seaport in the southeast of Ukraine, officials said. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Donetsk airport falls into the hands of pro-Russia separatists
The heroic defense that lasted for 242 days is over as Ukraine military officials conceded Thursday that the main bastion of Donetsk airport defense fell into the hands of pro-Russia separatists. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Ukraine accuses Russia of sending more troops across border
Ukraine’s president on Wednesday accused Russia of moving additional troops and military hardware into his country, a charge the Moscow quickly denied amid intense fighting in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Pro-Russia rebels claim to control Donetsk airport after battle
Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine claimed Monday that they have seized control of the Donetsk airport after days of intense fighting. Ukrainian officials have not confirmed a retreat. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Fighting rages in eastern Ukraine as peace rally is held in Kiev
Fierce fighting raged in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Sunday as tens of thousands of people gathered in the capital, Kiev, to light candles for peace. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
