Section: Los Angeles Times (USA)
Fierce fighting resumes in eastern Ukraine after failure of diplomacy
Ukrainian military brass and pro-Russia separatists have abandoned all pretense of adhering to a cease-fire, sending massive reinforcements Friday to their eastern Ukraine battlegrounds and engaging in a fierce battle for control of the devastated airport in Donetsk. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Missile hits civilian bus in Ukraine; 10 reported dead
A missile struck a passenger bus near a town in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, leaving 10 civilians dead and 13 wounded, officials said. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Ukraine peace summit scratched after diplomacy fails to break impasse
The foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine failed to make progress at a meeting in Berlin on Monday night with their counterparts from France and Germany, prompting cancellation of a four-party peace summit that had been planned for Thursday in Kazakhstan. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Russia calls West’s linkage of Ukraine and terror fight ‘childish’
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday accused Western leaders of excluding the Kremlin from diplomatic brainstorming on how to fight global terrorism as punishment for its role in the Ukraine crisis. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
‘Frozen conflicts’: Democracies decline to uphold their own values
The front lines in eastern Ukraine have moved very little in recent weeks as Russia-backed separatists and government forces hunker down for winter and a World War I-style impasse sets in. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Putin hails Crimea annexation as ‘most important milestone’
Russian President Vladimir Putin used his New Year’s address to hail the March annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region as “the most important milestone in the country’s history.” …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Russia says Ukraine deal to buy U.S. nuclear fuel poses safety risks
Russia’s Foreign Ministry accused Ukraine of endangering public safety in Europe with its decision to buy nuclear fuel for its Soviet-built nuclear plants from a U.S. supplier, saying Ukrainian leaders had failed to learn anything from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster about safe nuclear energy… …read more Source: Los Angeles...
No military solution to Ukraine conflict, country’s president concedes
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko conceded Monday that his forces are unable to militarily defeat separatists backed by Russian mercenaries and armaments, and he called for a new attempt at negotiating an end to the fighting at an international summit on Jan. 15. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Ukraine, separatists exchange prisoners after latest talks break down
The Ukrainian government and pro-Russia separatists began an “all-for-all” exchange of prisoners late Friday, Russian news agencies reported after delays apparently caused by a dispute over where to swap the captives. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Pope: ‘Truly there are so many tears this Christmas’
Pope Francis is focusing his attention on all those weeping in the world this Christmas, singling out the refugees, hostages and all those suffering in conflicts in the Middle East, Africa and Ukraine. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
