Section: Los Angeles Times (USA)
Pro-Russia separatists press forward with their secession from Ukraine
Russia-backed separatists pressed on Tuesday with the building of their envisioned new state wrested from Ukrainian territory with the inauguration of a gunman purportedly elected prime minister of the proclaimed People’s Republic of Donetsk. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Russia recognizes Ukraine separatists, provoking new sanctions threat
Russia’s Foreign Ministry announced Monday that it will “respect the will” of separatist voters in eastern Ukraine who elected leaders for their proclaimed independent republics in defiance of international warnings that their actions were illegal. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Pro-Russia separatists defy warnings, hold ‘sovereign’ vote
Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine voted Sunday in elections condemned by the international community as illegal and a violation of a cease-fire already teetering on the verge of collapse. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Ukraine, Russia struggle to resolve gas dispute as winter looms
As temperatures have dropped below freezing in Ukraine and relations with Russia have come under new strains, energy officials from the two former Soviet republics were meeting in Brussels on Wednesday for a last-ditch attempt to negotiate a resumption of Russian natural gas deliveries for… …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Ukraine fighters, surrounded at wrecked airport, refuse to give up
Only three floors remain in the blackened skeleton of the seven-story, glass-walled airport terminal, opened with a burst of national pride two years ago for the Euro 2012 soccer championship. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Ukraine vote for closer Western alliance may antagonize Russia
Ukrainian political leaders who won a strong endorsement for their pledges of reform and closer ties with Western Europe began work Monday on forming a government to deliver on those promises. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Pro-Europe forces poised to win majority in Ukraine legislature
Pro-European parties appeared to have won a majority in Ukraine’s parliamentary election Sunday, based on exit polls in a vote marred by separatist sabotage amid the ravages of a collapsing economy and civil war. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
As Ukraine elects a new parliament, national divisions persist
President Petro Poroshenko called early parliamentary elections for Sunday in the hope of shoring up Ukrainian unity after a tumultuous winter revolt that swept a Kremlin ally from power only to have Russia strike back with a bloody separatist uprising in the east. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Ukraine denies rights group report it uses cluster bombs
Ukrainian armed forces have never used prohibited weapons such as cluster bombs in their fight against pro-Russia separatists, a military spokesman insisted Tuesday after a rights group reported it had documented a dozen instances when the indiscriminate weapons were used in populated areas. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Ukraine troops struggle with nation’s longtime neglect of military
Militia commander Yuri Bereza and his 150 Ukrainian irregulars were closing in on pro-Moscow separatists in their last stronghold in this eastern city when Russian troops and armor thundered in out of nowhere to cut them off in the suburb of Ilovaisk. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
