Section: The Washington Times (USA)
Pro-Russia separatists take firm control of coastal town of Novoazovsk
NOVOAZOVSK, Ukraine — Pro-Russia separatists, relaxed and well-equipped, held firm control on Friday of the strategic coastal town of Novoazovsk, a day after Ukraine claimed tanks and armored vehicles had invaded from Russia. Associated Press reporters saw at least a half-dozen tanks in the town of about 12,000 people, bearing … …read...
EU ministers call for new sanctions against Russia
MILAN (AP) – Several European Union foreign ministers on Friday accused Russia of invading eastern Ukraine and said Moscow should be punished with more sanctions. The meeting of the 28-nation bloc’s top diplomats in Milan came one day after NATO said Moscow has slipped at least 1,000 Russian … …read more Source: The...
Russian fund with US advisers eludes sanctions
WASHINGTON (AP) – As President Barack Obama warns of stepped-up economic punishments against Russia for its military incursions inside Ukraine, U.S. sanctions have so far avoided one prominent financial institution: the $10 billion Russian Direct Investment Fund, which has partnered with brand-name American companies and whose advisers...
Obama confesses: ‘We don’t have a strategy yet’ for dealing with Islamic State
President Obama acknowledged Thursday he doesn’t have a plan for defeating Islamist militants in Syria and backed away from imminent military action, while he also downplayed reports of a new Russian invasion in Ukraine. “We don’t have a strategy yet,” Mr. Obama said of his plans for defeating the Islamic …...
Russian tanks enter Ukraine; ‘encroachment’ condemned by world leaders
Two columns of Russian tanks and armored vehicles rolled into Ukraine after firing upon a border crossing Thursday, causing overmatched Ukrainian guardsmen to flee and sparking international fears about Russian intentions. A Ukrainian military spokesman said shots were fired from Russian territory at 11 a.m., and the border crossing occurred...
Ukrainian troops in ‘full, chaotic retreat’ as Putin opens ‘third front’ in stealth war
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s stealth war of attrition may be paying off. As evidence mounts that pro-Russian separatists are being supplied with new weapons from across the border, some Ukrainian soldiers are now refusing to fight. In Novoazovsk, a Ukrainian unit staring down tanks, artillery and infantry personnel responded to...
Tourism suffers in Crimea as Ukraine shuns breakaway region
KERCH, Crimea — International cruise lines have stopped docking at Yalta, and Ukrainians have boycotted the peninsula’s once-popular Black Sea beaches. But ferry dockworker Andrey Shpachenko has been doing well despite the poor tourist season. His earnings at the company that ferries passengers to and from Crimea and Russia have …...
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Weapons convoys seen rolling in eastern Ukraine from the direction of Russia KRASNODON, Ukraine (AP) – For several evenings this month, convoys of military weaponry passed with clockwork-like regularity through Krasnodon, a rebel-held town in eastern Ukraine near the porous border with Russia. The convoys were seen … …read more...
Ukrainian president dissolves parliament
KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s president on Monday dissolved parliament and called for early elections in October as his country continues to battle a pro-Russian insurgency in its eastern regions. President Petro Poroshenko announced in a statement posted on his website that he has dissolved parliament and called for snap elections …...
Ukraine: Russian tank column enters southeast
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian official says a column of Russian tanks and armored vehicles has crossed into the country in the far southeast, away from where most of the intense fighting has been taking place. Col. Andriy Lysenko, a spokesman for Ukraine’s National Security Council, told reporters the … …read more Source: The...
