Section: New York Daily News (USA)
Russian convoy leaves Ukraine
DONETSK, Russia — Hundreds of Russian aid trucks left rebel-held eastern Ukraine on Saturday, highlighting a dire need for long-term assistance to the region where homes and livelihoods have been destroyed by months of fighting. …read more Source: New York Daily...
Four arrested for flying Ukranian flag on Moscow skyscraper
Four people who climbed a Moscow skyscraper on Wednesday and attached a Ukrainian flag to its spire have been charged with vandalism by Russian police and may face three years in jail. …read more Source: New York Daily...
Ukraine says fighting halts recovery of refugees’ bodies
Fifteen bodies have been recovered from the site of an artillery strike on a refugee bus convoy in east Ukraine, but further operations have been suspended due to renewed fighting in the area, a Ukrainian military spokesman said on Tuesday. …read more Source: New York Daily...
‘English Spider-Man’ climbs 325-foot high crane in India
Not content with back flipping on top of a Ukrainian bridge or scaling London’s iconic South Bank Tower, James Kingston has seriously upped the ante for his latest stunt. …read more Source: New York Daily...
Ukraine troops push into city under rebel control
Army troops have penetrated deep inside the rebel-controlled city of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, in what could prove a breakthrough development in the four-month-long conflict, the Ukrainian government said Sunday. …read more Source: New York Daily...
Trucks in Russian aid convoy wait at Ukrainian border due to lack of security: Red Cross
Hundreds of trucks in a Russian aid convoy waited Saturday near the Ukrainian border as complicated procedures dragged on for allowing them into eastern Ukraine to help civilians suffering amid fighting between Ukrainian forces and separatists. …read more Source: New York Daily...
Ukraine destroys Russian military vehicles
NATO and Ukraine said Russian military vehicles did cross into Ukraine during the night and the Ukrainian president said most of them were destroyed by his troops. …read more Source: New York Daily...
Russian aid convoy travels toward Ukraine
The aid convoy had been temporarily halted as both sides argued about where the aid could be delivered. At least 41 people were killed in the violence Thursday — a day after the UN announced that the death toll had doubled to more than 2,000 in just two weeks. …read more Source: New York Daily...
Ukraine death toll doubles in 2 weeks: UN
At least 1,129 were killed in Ukrainian violence between July 26 and Aug 10, doubling the death toll from months of fighting, the UN says. About 60 people die every day in the violence. …read more Source: New York Daily...
John Kerry sees hope for easing of Ukraine tensions
The Obama administration is cautiously hopeful diplomacy can ease tensions between Ukraine and Russia over Moscow’s insistence on sending humanitarian aid to pro-Russian areas of eastern Ukraine, U.S. …read more Source: New York Daily...
