Section: Newsweek (USA)
Newspaper: Russia Might Ban Car Imports if Sanctions Escalate
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia may tighten retaliatory sanctions against Western nations to include a ban on car imports, if the United States and the European Union impose additional sanctions on Moscow, daily newspaper Vedomosti reported on Monday. The impact of the measure on many foreign automakers would be softened because their factories...
Refugee Convoy Hit by Rocket Fire in Eastern Ukraine
Ukraine accused pro-Russian rebels on Monday of hitting a refugee convoy of buses with rocket fire near the eastern city of Luhansk, killing people trapped in the burning vehicles, but the separatists denied responsibility. Government forces kept up pressure on the separatists in fighting overnight into Monday, blockading or recapturing...
Ukraine Says Its Troops Make Breakthrough in Crushing Rebels
KIEV/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukrainian forces have raised their national flag over a police station in the city of Luhansk which was for months under rebel control, Kiev said on Sunday, in what could be a breakthrough in Ukraine’s efforts to crush pro-Moscow separatists. Ukrainian officials said however the rebels were fighting a...
Kiev Says Separatists Shot Down Ukranian Warplane
Pro-Russian separatists shot down a Ukrainian warplane in eastern Ukraine overnight into Sunday while at least 10 civilians were killed in fighting involving artillery and mortar in the rebel-held city of Donetsk, local authorities said. The renewed fighting, which followed a claim by rebels that they were receiving fresh stocks of heavy military...
Ukraine Foreign Minister Calls on NATO, EU to Give Military Support
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin called on NATO and the European Union to provide military support for Ukrainian troops fighting pro-Russian separatists and said the Western military alliance needed to come up with a new strategy toward Kiev. The four-month conflict in eastern Ukraine has reached a critical phase and a separatist leader...
Skirmishes in Ukraine but No Sign of Conflict Widening
Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists fought skirmishes near the Russian border on Saturday but there was no sign of the conflict widening after Kiev said it partially destroyed an armored column that had crossed the border from Russia. The report of the attack on the armored column on Friday triggered a sell-off in the U.S. dollar and...
In Shell-torn Luhansk, Food and Water is Scarce: ‘Welcome to Hell!’
On a hot afternoon in August in Ukraine, in the industrial pro-Russian rebel-held city of Luhansk, the Brooklyn-born war photographer Stanley Greene, on assignment for Newsweek, realized the odor wafting through the apartment of a family he was visiting was the familiar smell of death. “There was constant shelling,” says Greene– who began...
Photos: Ukrainians Struggle to Live a Normal Life in Warzone
After Russian military vehicles escorting a convoy of trucks they claimed contained humanitarian aid crossed the border into Ukraine overnight, Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko confirmed that artillery destroyed a “significant” part of the armored column, Reuters reports. Several governments including the United States and...
Russia: Ukraine is Disrupting Our Humanitarian Mission
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia on Friday accused Ukraine of attempting to disrupt a Russian humanitarian aid mission to eastern Ukraine and called for a ceasefire in the region to allow for the deliveries. “We draw attention to the sharp intensification of military action by Ukrainian forces with the apparent aim to stop the path, agreed...
‘Significant’ Portion of Russian Armored Column Destroyed in Ukraine
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian artillery destroyed a “significant” part of a Russian armored column that crossed into Ukraine during the night, President Petro Poroshenko told British Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday, according to the presidential website. Separately, a Ukrainian military spokesman said Ukrainian forces had...
