Section: Los Angeles Times (USA)
Ukraine president dissolves parliament, sets Oct. 26 election
Ukraine’s newly inaugurated president dissolved the contentious parliament Monday and set early elections for Oct. 26 in a move that will probably put further pressure on the country’s east-west divide. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Ukrainian official: Russia sent column of tanks into our territory
A column of Russian tanks and other military vehicles crossed into southeastern Ukraine on Monday, a Ukrainian official alleges, in a move that if confirmed could threaten to escalate the months-long conflict. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Separatists plan victory parade on Ukraine’s Independence Day
As officials in Ukraine’s capital prepared to parade tanks and soldiers Sunday to mark the anniversary of independence from the disintegrating Soviet Union, pro-Russia separatists who control this eastern city have their own plan to rival Kiev’s attempts to drum up support for its… …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Russian aid convoy completes mission, leaves Ukraine
A huge convoy of Russian trucks left Ukraine on Saturday, concluding a controversial mission to deliver aid to civilians in cities caught up in fighting between pro-Russia separatists and Ukrainian security forces. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
U.S. says Russia will ‘bear consequences’ for move into Ukraine
The Obama administration Friday condemned the unauthorized entry of a Russian convoy into embattled eastern Ukraine, warning that the Kremlin would “bear additional consequences” for the move. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Russian aid convoy enters Ukraine without permission
Russia on Friday sent a convoy of trucks bearing what it has termed humanitarian aid into eastern Ukraine, saying it would no longer wait for Ukrainian government approval to bring the supplies into the embattled region. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Russian aid convoy poised to enter Ukraine as fighting rages
Pro-Russia separatists who control part of Ukraine’s eastern border allowed Kiev customs officials into the occupied territory Thursday to inspect a Russian convoy seeking to carry aid to the militants’ last two strongholds. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Dutch museum perplexed over where to return borrowed Crimea gold
The curators of an Amsterdam museum that has hosted an exhibition of Crimean gold since February probably never anticipated the tumultuous events that have complicated the return of the borrowed artifacts. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
43 killed as Ukrainian troops take ‘significant’ part of Luhansk
Ukrainian government troops have taken control of “significant parts” of one of two remaining separatist-held cities in eastern Ukraine and seized a strategic railway hub needed to resupply the second, a national security spokesman announced in Kiev on Wednesday. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Presidents of Russia, Ukraine to meet in Belarus as fighting rages
The presidents of Russia and Ukraine will meet next week in Minsk, the capital of neighboring Belarus, to discuss the combat consuming eastern Ukraine and Kiev’s diplomatic turn toward the European Union that sparked the conflict. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
