Section: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (USA)
World Briefs: Russia eyes ‘neutral’ Ukraine
MOSCOW — Russia said Wednesday that it wants a “neutral” and unified Ukraine, accusing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization of seeking to turn its neighbor into a hostile state. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...
World Briefs: U.S. Army trainers arrive in Ukraine
MOSCOW — The Kremlin on Friday warned that the arrival of several hundred United States military trainers in Ukraine could “destabilize” the country’s southeast, where a cease-fire between government troops and Russian-backed separatists is barely holding. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...
World briefs: Russia marks annexation of Crimea
MOSCOW — On the first anniversary of Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, Russians celebrated Wednesday while Ukrainians vowed that the Black Sea territory would eventually return to their control. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...
Putin says Russia was ready to activate nuclear arsenal over Crimea
MOSCOW — Russia would have activated its nuclear arsenal if necessary a year ago when its troops secured the Crimean peninsula and carried out a referendum on the strategic peninsula’s secession from Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a documentary that aired Sunday. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...
World briefs: EU pressed on Russian sanctions
FRANKFURT, Germany — Germany and other countries want European Union leaders to endorse a declaration saying that EU sanctions on Russia will not be eased unless Moscow complies with a Ukraine cease-fire deal, two officials said Saturday. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...
Ukraine’s grinding war stains innocence of childhood
KHARTSYZK, Ukraine — Seryozha colors in his drawing of a tank, lost in thought. Like many 7-year-olds in eastern Ukraine, he has trouble recalling a time before the war. “They’ve always been shooting,” he says, vigorously scratching with the brightest of pencils. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...
Scribbled note shows Nemtsov on trail of Russian deaths in Ukraine
MOSCOW — It may have been the last note that Boris Nemtsov ever wrote, a hurried scrawl in blue pen on a plain white sheet of letter-size paper. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...
Coal mine gas blast kills at least 24 in Ukraine
DONETSK, Ukraine — A rebel-held city scarred by months of conflict in eastern Ukraine suffered more tragedy Wednesday when a methane gas explosion in a coal mine killed at least 24 workers and left nine missing. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...
Ukrainian pilot maintains hunger strike
MOSCOW — A Moscow court refused Wednesday to release a Ukrainian military officer who has been on hunger strike in a Russian prison since mid-December and has become a national hero in Ukraine. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...
World Briefs: Latest clashes in Ukraine kill hundreds
GENEVA — The United Nations said Monday that a sharp escalation in recent fighting in eastern Ukraine had left more than 800 people dead and more than 3,400 wounded, with hundreds missing and many buried without their deaths being recorded. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...
