Tag: Ukraine

Cars pass an empty pro-Russian checkpoint after heavy fighting between pro-Russian fighters and Ukrainian government troops outside Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, July 9, 2014. The rebels fled Slovyansk, a city of 100,000 that had been their stronghold, over the weekend as Ukrainian troops mounted an offensive. They left behind a city heavily damaged by fighting and riven by vehemently differing views. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Rebel governor losing hope of Russia intervention

Yuras Karmanau · July 9, 2014 6:45 pm

Ukrainian charged with Russian journalists’ deaths

Nataliya Vasilyeva · July 9, 2014 4:37 pm

Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, center, is flanked by Assistant Secretary of Defense Derek Chollet, left, and Assistant Treasury Secretary Daniel Glaser, right, as she testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 9, 2014, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing to examine Russia and developments in Ukraine, (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National Security

Senators press for more sanctions on Russia

Donna Cassata · July 9, 2014 4:02 pm

A woman, name not given, looks out from her damaged house in the city of Slovyansk, Donetsk Region, eastern Ukraine Monday July 7, 2014. Ukraine's president Petro Poroshenko has called the capture of the Pro-Russian separatist stronghold of Slovyansk a "turning point" in the fight for control of the country's east. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Slovyansk struggles back after rebels are routed

Yuras Karmanau · July 8, 2014 7:52 pm

A man speaks phone near a broken window in his house after shelling in Luhansk, eastern Ukraine Tuesday, July 8, 2014. Local residents said it was a shelling from the Ukrainian army's side. The Ukrainian government will restart cease-fire negotiations with pro-Russian insurgents in the country's east only once the rebels lay down their weapons, the defense minister said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Ukraine takes aggressive stance toward separatists

YURAS KARMANAUPETER LEONARD · July 8, 2014 7:35 pm

Russia's foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, left, and Slovenia's President Borut Pahor look at each other in Maribor, Slovenia, Tuesday, July 8, 2014, during the opening ceremony for a museum commemorating WWII camp for captured Soviet prisoners of war. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

EU’s united front on Russia falling amid gas needs

George Jahn · July 8, 2014 3:53 pm

People walk under a destroyed railroad bridge over a main road leading into the east Ukraine city of Donetsk, near the village of Novobakhmutivka, 20 km North from the city of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine Monday, July 7, 2014. The bridge has been destroyed, blocking a key access route to the rebel-held city. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

3 bridges blown up in Ukraine near rebel-held city

Yuras Karmanau · July 7, 2014 7:54 pm

People listen to a pro-Russian activist during a pro-Russian meeting in the city of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine Sunday, July 6, 2014. More than a thousand people rallied on Donetsk's central Lenin square on Sunday afternoon in support of the pro-Russian rebellion after an important defeat yesterday. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Pro-Russia separatists vow to keep up the fight

Yuras Karmanau · July 6, 2014 8:04 pm

Ukrainian troops atop an APC at a checkpoint near Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, July 5, 2014. Ukraine's forces claimed a significant success against pro-Russian insurgents on Saturday, chasing them from one of their strongholds in the embattled east of the country. Rebels fleeing from the city of Slovyansk vowed to regroup elsewhere and fight on. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukraine claims victory in rebel stronghold

DMITRY LOVETSKYYURAS KARMANAU · July 5, 2014 7:24 pm

A woman holds a poster reading "Save Donbas People" as Russian Communists party activists gather in support of pro-Russian fighters and local citizens who live in Donetsk and Luhansk regions of eastern Ukraine in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, July 3, 2014. Ukraine's president shook up the leadership of his struggling military on Thursday, appointing a new defense minister and top general tasked with stamping out the corruption that has left the country's armed forces faltering before a pro-Russian insurgency. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Ukraine claims winning ground in rebellious east

David McHugh · July 4, 2014 6:24 pm

Valentina, who gave only her first name, gestures in a flat of her neighbor who was injured during shelling in the city of Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, July 3, 2014. Residential areas came under shelling on Thursday from government forces. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Ukraine’s president shakes up military leadership

David McHugh · July 3, 2014 11:37 pm

Pro-Russian fighters stand in their positions, as they patrol the airspace near Luhansk, eastern Ukraine Wednesday, July 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Foreign ministers agree on Ukraine cease-fire path

Frank Jordans · July 2, 2014 7:36 pm