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Cars of OSCE Observers Vandalized in Eastern Ukraine
SCOW (AP) – Observers at the Organization for Security and Cooperation and Security in Europe say protesters in rebel-controlled Donetsk have vandalized their cars.Russian television on Thursday showed several dozen protesters outside the hotel where OSCE observers were… …read more Source:...
Ukraine’s New Police on Charm Offensive in Kiev
EV, Ukraine (AP) – Only a few months ago, Kiev residents would normally avoid the police if they could help it. The officer would be of no use on a complaint – or worse, would demand a bribe.Not any longer. These days, Kiev residents approach members of a new police force… …read more Source:...
New Governor Named in Move to East Tensions in Eastern Ukraine
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Wednesday appointed a well-known volunteer as governor in one of the two war-torn regions in the east in a possible sign of a policy change. Since hostilities broke out in eastern Ukraine in April 2014, killing more… …read more Source:...
Hundreds of Ukrainian Right-wingers Rally against Kiev Govt
EV, Ukraine (AP) – Hundreds of Ukrainian right-wingers are rallying in Kiev to protest government policies.The radical Right Sector group was one of the most militant factions in the massive protests in Ukraine’s capital that prompted pro-Russia President Viktor Yanukovych… …read more Source:...
Crimean Filmmaker Pleads Not Guilty in Terrorism Trial
SCOW (AP) – A Ukrainian filmmaker who has been in jail for more than a year on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit terrorism.Critics have dismissed Oleg Sentsov’s prosecution as revenge for his pro-Ukrainian position in Russia-occupied Crimea…. …read more Source:...
Ukraine Rebels Say Their Small Weapons Pullback Is Beginning
SCOW (AP) – Ukraine’s separatist rebels say they have begun pulling back military vehicles with small-caliber weapons from most of the front line in their war with Ukrainian forces.The claims Sunday by the Russia-backed rebels in the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions… …read more Source:...
Ukraine Calls Local Elections but Not in Rebel-held East
EV, Ukraine (AP) – The Ukrainian parliament on Friday voted to call local elections across the country in October, but not in the rebel-occupied east.The Kiev government has had no control over parts of eastern Ukraine since separatist rebels began fighting government… …read more Source:...
Ukrainians, Australian Kin Mark Year since MH17 Downing
ABOVE, Ukraine (AP) – Residents of the Ukrainian village where a Malaysian airliner was shot down with 298 people aboard a year ago joined a procession to the crash site on Friday, while Australia’s prime minister remembered the “savagery” of the disaster as he unveiled a… …read more Source:...
Little Certainty 1 Year after Airliner Shot Down in Ukraine
SCOW (AP) – A year since a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 was blown out of the sky over war-ravaged eastern Ukraine – killing 298 people – there has been little official word of progress in determining what brought down Flight MH17. One of the probes under way reportedly… …read more Source:...
A Year On, Ukrainian Villagers Recall Horrors of MH17 Crash
ABOVE, Ukraine (AP) – The field outside Hrabove, littered one year ago with bodies and smelling of burnt flesh and plastic, now smells of wild flowers.But the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 still haunts residents, who remember the bodies that fell from the sky… …read more Source:...
