Tag: Ukraine

Smoke rises from the airport outside Donetsk, Ukraine, Monday, May 26, 2014. Ukraine's military launched airstrikes Monday against the separatists who had taken over the airport in the eastern city of Donetsk, suggesting that fighting in the east is far from over. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Ukraine launches air strikes at eastern gunmen

PETER LEONARDNATALIYA VASILYEVA · May 26, 2014 4:20 pm

Russia ready to speak with new Ukrainian president

Russia ready to speak with new Ukrainian president

Washington Examiner · May 26, 2014 9:11 am

German consumers positive despite Ukraine crisis

German consumers positive despite Ukraine crisis

Washington Examiner · May 26, 2014 7:06 am

Exit poll: Candy tycoon elected Ukraine president

NATALIYA VASILYEVAPETER LEONARD · May 25, 2014 10:26 pm

Ukrainians stand in line to receive their ballot papers at a polling station during presidential and mayoral elections in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, May 25, 2014. Ukraine's critical presidential election got underway Sunday under the wary scrutiny of a world eager for stability in a country rocked by a deadly uprising in the east. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

Obama praises Ukrainians for going to the polls

Washington Examiner · May 25, 2014 6:49 pm

Ukraine Holds Crucial Election

Ukraine Holds Crucial Election

Washington Examiner · May 25, 2014 4:58 pm

Ukrainians stand in line for receive their ballots at a polling station during presidential and mayoral elections in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, May, 25, 2014. Ukraine's critical presidential election got underway Sunday under the wary scrutiny of a world eager for stability in a country rocked by a deadly uprising in the east. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

A long line signals hope in a Ukraine neighborhood

Tim Sullivan · May 25, 2014 3:35 pm

Ukrainian presidential candidate Petro Poroshenko, left, casts his ballot as his daughter Eugenia, son Mykhailo and daughter Alexandra look on at a polling station during the presidential election in Kiev, Ukraine, on Sunday. (AP/Sergei Chuzavkov)

Kelly Ayotte: Russia disrupting Ukrainian election

Zack Colman · May 25, 2014 2:42 pm

A passport of Italian photojournalist, 30-year old Andrea Rocchelli, killed Saturday near Slovyansk, is photographed in Slovyansk, Ukraine, Sunday, May 25, 2014. Italy's foreign ministry says an Italian photojournalist has been killed in eastern Ukraine, where he was covering the conflict ahead of the presidential election. The ministry said in a statement that Andrea Rocchelli, 30, was killed Saturday in the area of Slovyansk, a hotbed of pro-Russia, anti-Kiev sentiment. It stressed that the journalist's body, taken to a hospital along with that of a Russian citizen, was awaiting official identification and that Rocchelli's family was arriving in Kiev later Sunday. (AP Photo/Pool)

Italian journalist killed in eastern Ukraine

alexander-zemlianichenko · May 25, 2014 12:49 pm

A Pro-Russian activist carries a ballot box away from a polling station preparing to smash it, in Donetsk, Ukraine, Friday, May 23, 2014. Ukraine's acting government has admitted that authorities will not be able to organize the voting in parts of eastern Ukraine, overrun by pro-Russian insurgents. (AP Photo/Photomig)

Ukraine’s presidential vote: a step out of crisis

Jim Heintz · May 25, 2014 4:08 am

Putin: West ignores Russia’s interests in Ukraine

John Daniszewski · May 24, 2014 11:18 pm

Pro-Russian armed militants guard a checkpoint blocking the major highway which links Kharkiv, outside Slovyansk, Ukraine, Saturday, May 24, 2014. Ukrainians vote Sunday in an early presidential election that could be a crucial step toward resolving the country's crisis, but separatists in the east are threatening to block the vote. The election, which comes six months after the outbreak of protests that led to the president's ouster and a deepening chasm between pro-Europe and pro-Russia Ukrainians, aims to unify the fiercely divided country or at least discourage further polarization.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Election under threat in eastern Ukraine

Nataliya Vasilyeva · May 24, 2014 4:11 pm