Section: Los Angeles Times (USA)
Putin says Russia scrapping South Stream gas pipeline, blames Europe
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced during a visit to Turkey on Monday that the Kremlin is scrapping its $10-billion South Stream pipeline project that would have bypassed Ukraine to bring natural gas to Southern Europe. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Wreckage from MH-17 downed over Ukraine being sent to Netherlands
Local disaster response workers in eastern Ukraine began loading the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 onto trucks Monday for transport to the Netherlands and further examination in hopes of identifying the cause of the disaster, the Dutch Safety Board announced in a statement. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
In Ukraine’s east, support for the central government in Kiev is dying
A year ago, Luda Nesterenko didn’t give much thought to her nationality. With a Ukrainian mother and a Russian father, Nesterenko, like so many in this region of the former Soviet Union, is a mix of two Slavic cultures so close that she hardly felt the need to differentiate between them. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
German-Russian relations said headed for long impasse over Ukraine
German Chancellor Angela Merkel put her political colleagues on notice Wednesday that relations with Russia may be in for long-term difficulties over Moscow’s aggressions against Ukraine. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Ukraine’s freeze on military exports to Russia carries risks
Ukrainian factories for decades have been a key supplier to the Kremlin’s war machine, providing jet engines, uranium fuel and electronics for Russia’s nuclear arsenal. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
France freezes warship delivery to Russia, citing Ukraine conflict
France has put on hold a controversial deal to supply Russia with two high-tech amphibious assault ships following international concern over Moscow’s military involvement in Ukraine. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Poroshenko: Ukrainians will vote on joining NATO years from now
The divisive issue of whether Ukraine should join NATO will be put to a vote years from now, after the necessary reforms have been completed, President Petro Poroshenko announced Monday. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Biden tells Russia that U.S. will never accept Crimea annexation
Vice President Joe Biden told the Kremlin during a visit Friday to Ukraine that the United States will never recognize Russia’s annexation of Crimea and warned Moscow that it faces greater isolation if it continues its “provocative action.” …read more Source: Los Angeles...
U.N. rights agency reports ‘total breakdown’ in eastern Ukraine
More than 4,300 people have died in fighting in eastern Ukraine’s “total breakdown of law and order,” the United Nations human rights agency reported Thursday. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
As forces amass, German diplomat tries to head off Russia-Ukraine war
Germany’s foreign minister shuttled between Kiev and Moscow on Tuesday in an effort to avert all-out war between Ukrainian government forces and Russia-backed separatists. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
