Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)
Obama Seeks To Increase Pressure On Russia After Ukraine Offensive
U.S. President Barack Obama says the United States is considering all options short of military action to turn up the pressure on Russia after Moscow-backed separatists launched a new offensive in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Duma Speaker Says Russian Court Must Decide Ukrainian Pilot’s Guilt
Russian Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin told reporters in Strasbourg that the decision whether to free detained Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko would be made by a Russian court …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Fighting At A Ukrainian Army Checkpoint In Eastern Ukraine
Firefights broke out at a Ukrainian army checkpoint between the cities of Donetsk and Luhansk. On January 24, the 40th Battalion’s 17th Tank Brigade came under attack at Debaltseve from the direction of Luhansk. (RFE/RL Ukrainian Service correspondent Levko Stek). …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine Holds Day Of Mourning After Mariupol Attack
Ukraine is holding a day of national mourning on January 25, following a series of rocket attacks in the southeastern city of Mariupol that killed 30 people and injured more than 90 others. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russia Blocks UN Statement Condemning Mariupol Attack
Russia has blocked a UN Security Council statement that would have criticized a pro-Russian Ukrainian separatist leader and condemned a recent increase in violence in eastern Ukraine …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Dozens Killed As Rockets Hit Mariupol In Southeast Ukraine
Ukraine’s Interior Ministry says at least 30 civilians were killed on January 24 when the government-held port city of Mariupol in the southeast of the country was targeted by heavy barrages of Grad rockets as part of a Russian-backed separatist offensive. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service) …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Mariupol: A Strategic And Symbolic Target For Pro-Russian Rebels
In launching an offensive against the Ukrainian coastal city of Mariupol, pro-Russian separatists have selected a target of both strategic and symbolic importance in their bloody conflict with the government in Kyiv. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
News Analysis: How Best To Help Ukraine Is The $50 Billion Question
Can tens of billions of dollars in Western aid jumpstart Ukraine’s embattled economy or does Kyiv need the current crisis as a stimulus to implement reforms that it has avoided for the past two decades? …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Rockets Target Mariupol In Rebels’ Eastern Ukraine Offensive
Officials in southeastern Ukraine say the government-held port city of Mariupol was being targeted by heavy barrages of Grad rockets on January 24 as part of a Russian-backed separatist offensive. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Auschwitz Ceremony Lays Bare Russian Tension With Europe
A claim by the Ukrainian president’s administration that it was mostly Ukrainians who liberated Auschwitz and Europe threatens to deepen a rift that reflects current animosity and deep historic tension between Moscow and its Soviet-era subjects. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
