Tag: Ukraine

Residents inspect the damage after night shelling on a market in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014. Airstrikes and artillery fire between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian troops have brought the violence closer than ever to the city center, as Kiev's forces move in on the rebel stronghold. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Tensions grow in Ukraine over Russia troop buildup

Yuras Karmanau · August 7, 2014 2:34 am

President Barack Obama listens to a question during his news conference at US African Leaders Summit, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014 at the State Department in Washington. Obama and dozens of African leaders opened talks Wednesday on two key issues that threaten to disrupt economic progress on the continent: security and government corruption. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama: US sanctions are straining Russian economy

Deb Riechmann · August 7, 2014 1:19 am

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with local officials in Voronezh, Russia, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014. Putin says he has ordered the government to develop measures in response to Western sanctions. In a meeting with state officials in the city of Voronezh on Tuesday, did not specify what the measures might be but said: "I have given the order today to formulate them," Russian news agencies reported. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Presidential Press Service)

Report: Russia to block US agricultural imports

Jim Heintz · August 6, 2014 11:36 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with local officials in Voronezh, Russia, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Presidential Press Service)

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Farm Bureau president scoffs at Vladimir Putin’s agriculture import ban

Sean Higgins · August 6, 2014 8:39 pm

Australian, Malaysian and Dutch investigators examine the area of the downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, near the village of Rossipne, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014. The West has accused Russia of most likely providing the insurgents with surface-to-air missiles that may have been used to shoot down the Malaysia Airlines passenger jet over rebel-held territory on July 17, killing all 298 people on board. (AP Photo)

Dutch premier halts search for Ukraine victims

Toby Sterling · August 6, 2014 6:22 pm

People pass in front of the New York Stock Exchange in this Monday, March 9, 2009 photo. Worries over Russian troops amassing near the Ukraine border caused a sharp sell-off in global stock markets on Wednesday Aug. 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Fears of escalation in Ukraine roils markets

Pan Pylas · August 6, 2014 4:15 pm

A man watches from a jetty as a Mistral-class French amphibious warship docks on the Neva River in downtown St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Sell French warships to NATO, not Russia

Austin Bay · August 6, 2014 3:07 pm

FILE - In this July 31, 2012 file photo the euro sculpture stands in front of the headquarters of the European Central Bank, ECB, in Frankfurt, Germany. The crisis in Ukraine and a hesitant recovery in Europe are casting shadows over the European Central Bank's meeting Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014. Economists say the monetary authority for the 18 countries that use the euro will look to reassure markets that it is ready to add more stimulus measures if the economy takes a serious turn for the worse. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

Ukraine looms over European Central Bank meeting

David McHugh · August 6, 2014 3:06 pm

In this map released on July 31, 2014, by the Joint Agency Coordination Centre, details are presented in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the southern Indian Ocean. Australian Transport Minister Warren Truss said on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014, that Dutch contractor Fugro Survey Pty. Ltd. will conduct the underwater search for the Malaysian airliner that crashed off the Australian coast in March. (AP Photo/Joint Agency Coordination Centre) EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Dutch contractor selected for Malaysian jet search

Rod McGuirk · August 6, 2014 2:55 am

Russian U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin speaks as the U.N. Security Council meets to discuss the humanitarian situation in Ukraine, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014, at the United Nations headquarters. The spread of fighting into Donetsk could result in an alarming escalation in the humanitarian crisis gripping the country's easternmost regions. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

UN: Humanitarian situation in Ukraine worsening

Trenton Daniel · August 6, 2014 1:16 am

Local residents sit near an entrance to a bomb shelter as they exit to get some fresh air during a short cease fire in Petrovsky district in the city of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Underground misery at dank Ukraine bomb shelter

Washington Examiner · August 5, 2014 8:33 pm

Rescue workers carry the body of woman who was killed during shelling in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014. Ukrainian troops took control of a checkpoint Tuesday on the western edge of the main rebel stronghold of Donetsk as the government makes further gradual advances to quash pro-Russian separatist forces in the east. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Ukraine fighting reaches rebel-held Donetsk

Yuras Karmanau · August 5, 2014 4:44 pm