Section: U.S. News (USA)
Ukraine says 1 solider killed, 5 wounded in separatist raids
MINSK, Belarus (AP) — Ukraine says a soldier has been killed and five others wounded in separatist attacks in eastern Ukraine and that a rise in violence is threatening the region’s delicate truce. …read more Source: U.S....
Ex-Ukrainian justice minister detained in shootings probe
MOSCOW (AP) — Ukraine’s Security Service says former Justice Minister Olena Lukash has been detained in connection with a probe into deadly shootings during opposition protests in 2014. …read more Source: U.S....
Ukraine’s rebel center in limbo as fighting dies down
DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — The fighting has subsided, but Donetsk is quickly sinking into the past — a shabby Soviet-like state of empty streets and deprivation. Huge portraits of Josef Stalin hanging in the city center only reinforce the impression of failure. …read more Source: U.S....
Weapons pullback in eastern Ukraine in jeopardy
MOSCOW (AP) — Ukrainian government forces and Russia-backed rebels in the east of the country are threatening to stop the ongoing weapons withdrawal if their positions continue to come under attack. …read more Source: U.S....
Attacks on black fans show tide of fan racism in Ukraine
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Instead of being one of the biggest sports events of the year in troubled Ukraine, Dynamo Kiev’s game against Chelsea in the Champions League turned into a public display of the country’s struggle to contain violent racists. …read more Source: U.S....
Ukraine faces years of dependence on Western aid
VELYKI PRYTSKY, Ukraine (AP) — Looking on from her vegetable patch at the motorcade of U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, Ukrainian villager Olha Voloshchenko says she’d seen the lady on the TV news the night before, but “then the lights went off at our place.” …read more Source: U.S....
Exit polls in Ukraine local elections show east-west split
MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Four exit polls from Ukraine’s local elections indicate the governing coalition has retained its dominant position in the west and center of the country despite widespread disappointment with the government of President Petro Poroshenko. …read more Source: U.S....
Direct flights between Russia and Ukraine stopped
MOSCOW (AP) — Direct flights between Russia and Ukraine have stopped as a result of continuing tensions over Russia’s annexation of Crimea and backing of separatists in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: U.S....
Ukraine holds local elections that test oligarchs’ reach
MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainians are voting in local elections that are seen as a test of the strength of President Petro Poroshenko’s government and of the oligarchs accustomed to running regions of the country. …read more Source: U.S....
Mourinho says referee was ‘weak’ after Champs League draw
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho has described a Champions League referee as “weak and naive,” and compared him to beleaguered rugby official Craig Joubert. …read more Source: U.S....
