Section: The Bismarck Tribune
NATO sees Russia ready for Ukraine incursion
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — NATO’s top commander says Russia still has enough troops stationed on Ukraine’s border to mount a major incursion, and that it is using its military might to affect politi… …read more Source: The Bismarck...
Cash cut to Ukraine rebel areas in risky strategy
A woman stands at an ATM that doesn’t work outside a Ukrainian bank in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014. Money is running short in the rebel heartland since the government anno… …read more Source: The Bismarck...
Ukraine’s Facebook revolution, 1 year later
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, right, and Myroslava Gongadze, wife of murdered opposition journalist Heorhiy Gongadze lay flowers in honor of the protesters who were killed in clashes with the… …read more Source: The Bismarck...
Russia warns of military assault on the east
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s foreign policy chief on Wednesday claimed that Ukraine’s decision to freeze budget payments to the eastern rebel-held territories could be a precursor to a military onslaught. …read more Source: The Bismarck...
Georgians protest Russia-Abkhazia province deal
A man covered by a Ukrainian national flag stands in front of demonstrators holding a banner saying “Stop Russia!” and Georgian national flags during a rally in Tbilisi, Georgia, Saturday, Nov… …read more Source: The Bismarck...
Cosmic 1st: Spacecraft sends lander toward comet
Ukraine’s Klim Churyumov, astronomer and co-discoverer of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, talks to media at the European Space Agency ESA in Darmstadt, Germany, Wednesday, Nov.12, 2014. Europ… …read more Source: The Bismarck...
Ukraine rebels: a disunited front run by warlords
In this Wednesday Nov. 5, 2014 photo, military vehicles are parked in Perevalsk, Eastern Ukraine. Perevalsk and Alchevsk both participated in a contentious vote in early November to elect sepa… …read more Source: The Bismarck...
Report: Russia-West military encounters rising
LONDON (AP) — A London-based think tank says Russian forces have been involved in dozens of close encounters with Western militaries since Moscow annexed Crimea — and that both sides risk losi… …read more Source: The Bismarck...
Heavy shelling shakes Ukraine’s main city in east
DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — The heaviest shelling in recent weeks has shaken the main city in Ukraine’s rebel-held east, heightening worry about the renewal of full-scale conflict despite a cease-… …read more Source: The Bismarck...
Ukraine rebels seen moving large military convoys
Unmarked military vehicles travel along a road outside the separatist rebel-held town Makiivka, 25 km (16 miles) from Donetsk, eastern Ukraine on Saturday, Nov. 8, 2014. AP reporters saw more … …read more Source: The Bismarck...