Section: The Boston Globe (USA)
Renewed MH17 Search to Begin
With the ceasefire in place in eastern Ukraine, Malaysia and Australia say they plan to send investigators back to the MH17 crash site to gather evidence. …read more Source: The Boston...
Hagel Reaffirms U.S. Support for Georgia in NATO Pursuit
As shelling and gunfire punctured a two-day ceasefire in Ukraine, the U.S.’s top military official made a rare visit to another former Soviet republic — Georgia. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s trip had two aims — reassuring Tiblisi in the face of tremendous upheaval in the region AND sending a pointed message to Moscow....
Cease-Fire in Ukraine Is Shaken as Violations Are Reported in Southeast
The sound of artillery strikes were heard late Saturday on the edge of Mariupol, which Ukrainian forces have been in danger of losing, according to reporters in the city. …read more Source: The Boston...
Smoke Rises, Shelling Heard Near Donetsk Airport
Prolonged shelling was heard in an area north of Donetsk, with plumes of black smoke filling the sky on Sunday morning (September 7), in a further test for a ceasefire that is barely 40 hours old. The shelling came from near the airport, which has been in the hands of Ukrainian government forces though pro-Russian rebels control the city. Rebels...
Ukrainian Truce Shaken by Shelling in Eastern Ukraine
Shelling overnight broke a fragile two-day peace in eastern Ukraine, with residents turning out to survey the damage on Sunday (September 7). In the city on the Sea of Azov, to the south of Donetsk, government forces came under artillery fire. One hotel on the road from Mariupol to rebel-controlled Novoazovsk, was damaged after artillery that...
Ceasefire in Eastern Ukraine Frays, Woman Killed by Shelling
Houses are reduced to ruin just north of the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Sunday… …After renewed shelling appears to break a ceasefire — between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists — that was barely two days old. Both sides are blaming the other for the flare-up of violence. Ukrainian military...
Moscow Celebrates 867th Anniversary
Russia has something to celebrate. It may be facing sanctions by the EU for its role in the Ukraine crisis but on Saturday there was dancing in the streets. Moscow is celebrating its 867th birthday and residents have come out to to mark its anniversary. They were treated to more than a thousand performances ranging from concerts to stilt walking...
Donetsk Residents Pray for Peace
Residents of the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk called for calm as an uneasy peace enveloped the region following a ceasefire agreement between Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists brokered the day before. Carrying candles and icons and singing religious songs, the people walked through the city centre, calling for a prolonged peace....
Artillery Attack Challenges Ceasefire in East Ukraine
Ukrainian government forces came under artillery fire late on Saturday near the strategic port of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine, in the first serious violation of a ceasefire declared only about 30 hours earlier. The presidents of Russia and Ukraine had earlier said the ceasefire, part of a peace road-map intended to end five months of conflict,...
Artillery Attack Threatens Ceasefire in Eastern Ukraine’s Mariupol
Flames burn near the strategic port of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine. Government forces here have come under fire. This latest round of shelling comes only about thirty hours after Russia and Ukraine had declared a ceasefire, which was part of a plan to end a five-month-old conflict. Despite the fires that burn into the night, both Ukrainian...
