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...
Woman with slain Putin critic says she didn’t see his killer
MOSCOW — The 23-year-old Ukrainian model who was with slain opposition leader Boris Nemtsov tearfully recounted Monday their last dinner in a chic Red Square restaurant and their walk onto a nearby bridge — but said she did not see the gunman who pulled the trigger. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...
