Section: Los Angeles Times (USA)
Newsletter: The price of a ‘favor’
Expect another day of fast-moving developments in the Ukraine story. …read more Source:: Los Angeles...
Democrats refocus impeachment efforts on Ukraine
The Ukraine allegations have breathed new life and focus into an impeachment inquiry that even some Democrats feared was at risk of losing momentum. …read more Source:: Los Angeles...
Ukraine’s president, a former actor, assumes unwanted role in Trump controversy
Caught in President Trump’s impeachment proceedings, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky struggles to stay on his anti-corruption course. …read more Source:: Los Angeles...
How Ukraine found itself at the heart of intensifying Trump scandal
How did Ukraine wind up in the middle of calls to impeach Trump? And what’s at stake? …read more Source:: Los Angeles...
GOP challenger says Trump committed treason, and 2020 Democratic candidates call for impeachment
Candidates call for impeachment proceedings against President Trump, who says he held up aid to Ukraine before urging its leader to investigate Joe Biden. …read more Source:: Los Angeles...
Newsletter: Ukraine, Iran and the U.N. stage
With the world swirling in crises — some of which are his own doing — President Trump heads to diplomacy’s largest stage: the annual U.N. …read more Source:: Los Angeles...
War and peace are on the line in Ukrainian parliamentary vote Sunday
Ukrainians will go to the polls Sunday to elect a new parliament …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Investigators say Russian missile downed MH17 over Ukraine in 2014. Moscow calls conclusions ‘fakes’
An international group of investigators said Thursday that its four-year probe found “legal and convincing evidence” that the missile that shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine belonged to the Russian army. The Joint Investigative Team, at a news conference in the Netherlands, revealed… …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Ukraine arrests journalist for Russian news agency, ramping up tension with Kremlin
Authorities in Ukraine have arrested a journalist with a Kremlin-funded news agency who they said “justified” Crimea’s annexation, “supported” pro-Russian separatists and now faces up to 15 years in jail for treason. The arrest of Kirill Vyshynsky, a Ukrainian national and head of the Ukrainian… …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Russian stocks, ruble and oligarchs’ wealth all take a hit in wake of U.S. sanctions
Russia began to feel the pinch from the latest round of U.S. sanctions Monday as the ruble dropped nearly 2% against the dollar and stocks took their biggest drop since the world reacted to Moscow’s annexation of Crimea. Russia’s top stock indexes, Mossbirge and the RTS, dropped by 9% and almost… …read more Source: Los...
