Section: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (USA)
Deal reached to provide Ukraine with Russian gas
BERLIN — European officials said they had brokered a deal between Russia and Ukraine aimed at ensuring gas flows to keep factories running and homes warm over the coming six months, despite a dispute between Moscow and Kiev over the size of Ukraine’s outstanding bills. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...
Obama issues a rallying cry at the U.N.
UNITED NATIONS — President Barack Obama on Wednesday charted a muscular new course for the United States in a turbulent world, telling the U.N. General Assembly in a bluntly worded speech that the American military would work with allies to dismantle the Islamic State’s “network of death” and warning Russia that it would pay for its...
Ukraine to withdraw its artillery
KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine is preparing to withdraw artillery in the east as violations of a truce between the government and rebels failed to halt momentum toward a settlement of the country’s worst conflict since World War II. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...
Explosion racks fragile cease fire in Ukraine; warring sides agree to create a buffer zone
DONETSK, Ukraine — A giant explosion shattered the stillness of an early fall morning here just hours after Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels signed the latest version of their cease-fire accord, illustrating the fragility of a truce agreed upon two weeks ago. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...
Obama declines weapons to Ukraine
WASHINGTON — The president of Ukraine came to Washington on Thursday seeking special ally status and lethal aid to fight the Russians. He walked away with neither, but declared that he was happy to get what he did get, new non-lethal aid. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...
Ukraine fighting prompts U.S., Russia to meet as field training exercises begin
WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov today after pro-Russian rebels continued to clash with Ukraine troops in several locations including the Donetsk airport. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...
World briefs: Aid reaches battered city in Ukraine
LUHANSK, Ukraine — A convoy of more than 200 white trucks crossed the Russian border to deliver humanitarian aid to a battered Ukrainian city on Saturday, a move made without Kiev’s consent yet met with silence by Ukraine’s top leaders. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...
U.S., allies levy new sanctions on Russia
BRUSSELS — The United States and Europe agreed Thursday to place additional economic sanctions on Russia over its role in promoting separatist warfare in eastern Ukraine despite a fragile new cease-fire that went into effect last week. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...
Ukraine president visits contested region
MOSCOW — With a fragile truce barely holding in eastern Ukraine, President Petro Poroshenko on Monday visited the port city of Mariupol, not far from where Ukrainian forces suffered severe losses in recent days, and declared that his government would never relinquish territory that some separatists claim historically belongs to Russia....
Cease-fire in Ukraine threatened
KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine struggled to maintain a tenuous cease-fire with pro-Russian rebels after a series of repeated breaches Sunday, even as the government here faced the equally daunting task of selling the peace plan to the nation. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...
