Section: U.S. News (USA)
Hundreds of Ukrainian right-wingers rally against Kiev govt
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Hundreds of Ukrainian right-wingers are rallying in Kiev to protest government policies. …read more Source: U.S....
Crimean filmmaker pleads not guilty in terrorism trial
MOSCOW (AP) — A Ukrainian filmmaker who has been in jail for more than a year on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit terrorism. …read more Source: U.S....
Ukraine rebels say their small weapons pullback is beginning
MOSCOW (AP) — Ukraine’s separatist rebels say they have begun pulling back military vehicles with small-caliber weapons from most of the front line in their war with Ukrainian forces. …read more Source: U.S....
Ukraine calls local elections but not in rebel-held east
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian parliament has voted to call a local election across the country in October, but not in the rebel-occupied east. …read more Source: U.S....
Ukrainian village marks anniversary of Malaysian plane crash
HRABOVE, Ukraine (AP) — Residents of the Ukrainian village where a Malaysian airliner was shot down with 298 people aboard are marking the disaster’s anniversary. …read more Source: U.S....
Little certainty 1 year after airliner shot down in Ukraine
MOSCOW (AP) — A year since a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 was blown out of the sky over war-ravaged eastern Ukraine — killing 298 people — there has been little official word of progress in determining what brought down Flight MH17. One of the probes under way reportedly points toward a ground-to-air missile fired from a village held by...
A year on, Ukrainian villagers recall horrors of MH17 crash
HRABOVE, Ukraine (AP) — The field outside Hrabove, littered one year ago with bodies and smelling of burnt flesh and plastic, now smells of wild flowers. …read more Source: U.S....
Ukraine PM says reforms continue despite ‘lunatic’ lawmakers
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukraine’s prime minister is pushing back against a pair of forces threatening to undermine his fragile government. …read more Source: U.S....
General: US considering training for Ukrainian army
WASHINGTON (AP) — The commander of U.S. Army forces in Europe says the United States is considering a plan to train Ukrainian army soldiers beginning in late November. …read more Source: U.S....
Right Sector gunmen take boy hostage in western Ukraine
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Two gunmen from Ukraine’s notorious nationalist militia Right Sector have briefly taken a six-year-old boy hostage in western Ukraine as a standoff between the gunmen and police entered its third day. …read more Source: U.S....
