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    Russia ups Ukraine pressure amid aid convoy row
    Aug15

    Russia ups Ukraine pressure amid aid convoy row

    Dozens of heavy Russian military vehicles mass near border with Ukraine, as Moscow and Kiev struggle to agree on aid convoy. …read more Source:...

    Russia Military Vehicles Mass Near Border With Ukraine As Aid Convoy Waits To Cross
    Aug15

    Russia Military Vehicles Mass Near Border With Ukraine As Aid Convoy Waits To Cross

    KAMENSK-SHAKHTINSKY, Russia, Aug 15 (Reuters) – Dozens of heavy Russian military vehicles massed on Friday near the border with Ukraine, where a huge Russian convoy with humanitarian aid came to a halt as Moscow and Kiev struggled to agree on border crossing procedures. Russia says it is carrying 2,000 tonnes of water, baby food and other...

    Ukraine Crisis: Rebel-Held Donetsk Shelled Amid Russia Aid Convoy Row
    Aug15

    Ukraine Crisis: Rebel-Held Donetsk Shelled Amid Russia Aid Convoy Row

    The rebel-held Ukrainian city of Donetsk has been heavily shelled, with at least one person dead as a Russian humanitarian convoy nears the region. It was not immediately clear whether the shells were fired by pro-Russian separatists or Ukrainian government forces. …read more Source: International Business...

    Moscow, Kiev closer to confrontation as aid convoy heads for rebel areas
    Aug15

    Moscow, Kiev closer to confrontation as aid convoy heads for rebel areas

    MOSCOW — A Russian aid convoy struck a new course toward rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine on Thursday, apparently flouting Ukrainian demands that all humanitarian shipments be subject to government inspections and prompting Kiev to threaten a direct confrontation if the convoy tries to pass through. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...

    Russians Start Paying the Price for Putin’s Ukraine Adventure
    Aug15

    Russians Start Paying the Price for Putin’s Ukraine Adventure

    For most Russians, indeed nearly all of them, the crisis in Ukraine has had a distant, almost virtual quality. It has been something they watched on TV, or debated in their kitchens, rooting for the pro-Russian rebel militias and cursing the Ukrainian government as though the war between them was hardly more than a gruesome sporting match. The...

    A Ukraine City Under Siege, ‘Just Terrified of the Bombing’
    Aug15

    A Ukraine City Under Siege, ‘Just Terrified of the Bombing’

    Life in Luhansk, Ukraine, is tough, but far from catastrophic. The only relief most people here seek is from the shelling, which goes on night and day. …read more Source: The New York...

    A Ukrainian City Under Siege
    Aug15

    A Ukrainian City Under Siege

    Luhansk is a grim place, but for residents, shelling remains the greatest danger and the most trying aspect of daily life. …read more Source: The New York...

    Two more top separatist leaders abandon eastern Ukraine battle
    Aug15

    Two more top separatist leaders abandon eastern Ukraine battle

    Two more top leaders from the armed insurrection in eastern Ukraine resigned Thursday as government forces closed in on the last two strongholds of the 4-month-old uprising. …read more Source: Los Angeles...

    News of the day From Across the Globe, August 15
    Aug15

    News of the day From Across the Globe, August 15

    British police searched a house belonging to veteran rock star Cliff Richard on Thursday in connection with sexual allegations dating back to the 1980s. Supporters of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide clashed with U.N. peacekeepers Thursday as the popular former leader faced possible arrest for not providing court-ordered testimony in a...

    Pressure mounts as Russian convoy reaches Ukraine’s border
    Aug15

    Pressure mounts as Russian convoy reaches Ukraine’s border

    Raising the stakes in Ukraine’s conflict, a Russian aid convoy of more than 200 trucks pushed up to the border Thursday but then stopped, provocatively poised to cross into rebel-held territory. […] an inspection would ease concerns that Russia could use the aid shipment as cover for a military incursion in support of the separatists,...