Section: Los Angeles Times (USA)
Ukraine crisis may solve NATO’s ‘identity crisis’
World leaders, diplomats and experts have often fretted about the future of NATO and whether the end of its mission in Afghanistan would also be the end of its relevance. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
‘We have to act quickly’ on Russia, European Union leaders told
Despite tough rhetoric decrying Russia’s increasing military involvement in Ukraine, European Union leaders on Sunday stopped short of imposing new sanctions against Moscow right away. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Putin denies invading Ukraine, warns West ‘not to mess with us’
Russian President Vladimir Putin denied Friday that the Kremlin had sent troops and tanks into eastern Ukraine and countered threats of increased Western sanctions with the advice that it is “best not to mess with us.” …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Obama rules out military response to Russian moves in Ukraine
President Obama rebuffed pressure for quick U.S. action in two foreign crises Thursday, declining to label Russia’s military moves into Ukraine an invasion and saying that he was not ready to expand an air campaign against Islamist militants to Syria. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Russian armored invasion of Ukraine confirmed by NATO, separatists
Russian tanks and troops fired their way into eastern Ukraine on Thursday and seized a strategic gateway town on the road to the heavily militarized Crimean peninsula that Moscow annexed in March, Ukrainian and NATO officials reported. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
In Ukraine, pro-Russia separatists press on with building a new state
Pro-Russia separatist leader Denis Pushilin, working in the high-ceilinged auditorium of an occupied building, insisted that a self-declared new government would take care of its own without Ukraine. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Ukraine president: Russian forces have invaded
Ukraine’s president called an emergency meeting of the nation’s security council and canceled a foreign trip Thursday, declaring that “Russian forces have entered Ukraine,” as concerns grew about the opening of a new front in the conflict. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Russian journalists attacked while investigating soldier burials
Several Russian journalists say they were attacked while investigating the suspected secret burials of soldiers believed to have been killed in Ukraine. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Russian armor attacking Ukrainian towns on new front, Kiev says
Russian armored vehicles have thundered into southern Ukraine and fired on the strategic town of Novoazovsk as the 5-month-old separatist battle broke open a new front, officials in Kiev said Wednesday. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Ukraine posts video of captured Russian paratroopers in war zone
Ukrainian military forces said Tuesday they had captured 10 Russian paratroopers on a “special mission” to infiltrate battle-torn eastern Ukraine and posted videotaped confessions of some soldiers in the strongest evidence to date of a Kremlin hand in Ukraine’s bloody separatist battle. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
