Section: San Francisco Chronicle (USA)
Ukrainian inmates escape after rockets hit prison
Rockets slammed into a high-security prison Monday in the rebel-held city of Donetsk, igniting a riot that allowed more than 100 prisoners to flee, authorities in eastern Ukraine said. In the past week Ukrainian government forces have intensified their military operations and surrounded Donetsk, the largest city in rebel-held eastern Ukraine. The...
Dutch push plane inquiry despite lack of access
AMSTERDAM (AP) — The Dutch Safety Board says it will push ahead with an investigation into the cause of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 disaster, despite not being able to access the site where the plane went down in eastern Ukraine. The board says it expects to release a preliminary report in several weeks containing information from the...
Ukraine rocket attack leads to mass jail breakout
DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Rockets slammed into a high-security prison Monday in the rebel-held city of Donetsk, igniting a riot that allowed more than 100 prisoners to flee, authorities in eastern Ukraine said. The prison break became possible after a substation providing the building with electricity was damaged, disabling the...
Ukraine demands that rebels in Donetsk surrender
Fighting raged Sunday in Donetsk as government forces continued to close in on the rebel stronghold and pro-Russian insurgents backed away from an unconditional cease-fire offer that they announced just the day before. With a string of military successes and broad support for its campaign from the West and most of its domestic base, Kiev has...
1 killed, 10 injured as fighting rages in Ukraine
On Saturday, rebel leader Aleksandr Zakharchenko called for a cease-fire, in a move that could be aimed at increasing international pressure on Ukraine to allow in a Russian aid mission. …read more Source: San Francisco...
Ukraine rebel leader asks for aid, cease-fire
Ukraine’s rebels are surrounded and ready to agree to a cease-fire to prevent a “humanitarian catastrophe,” the insurgents’ new leader said Saturday as conditions deteriorated in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk, artillery thundering through deserted streets. At least one person was killed and 18 wounded in shelling that...
Kerry seeks to calm South China Sea tensions
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) — Already scrambling to confront multiple simultaneous international crises, the Obama administration stepped up efforts Saturday to avert another, as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called on China and its smaller neighbors to take new steps to ease tensions over maritime disputes in Asian waters that many fear...
Barricades come down in Kiev
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — City workers and volunteers have removed the last of the barricades that had blocked the main street of Ukraine’s capital since protests that forced a change of government arose late last year. …read more Source: San Francisco...
Ukrainian replaces Russian as leader of insurgency
Donetsk, Ukraine — A Ukrainian has replaced a Russian at the helm of the insurgency in eastern Ukraine and declared that he wants “only moral support” from Moscow, as the Kremlin apparently tries to rebut Western claims that it is calling the shots among the rebels. Many in the rebel ranks decry what they call Russia’s...
2 killed by shelling in rebel-held Ukraine city
The city council said it was working to keep transport services running and to repair gas networks in apartment buildings. …read more Source: San Francisco...
