Tag: Ukraine

White House sets no deadline for Russia on Ukraine

White House sets no deadline for Russia on Ukraine

Washington Examiner · April 21, 2014 6:00 pm

This week, President Obama will travel to Asia for a seven-day trip. (AP Photo)

Obama heads to Asia as tensions in Ukraine continue to flare

Susan Crabtree · April 21, 2014 4:00 am

People stand at a barricade at the regional administration building that they had seized earlier in Donetsk, Ukraine, Sunday, April 20, 2014. The Ukrainian and Russian governments are reporting a shootout at a checkpoint set up by pro-Russian insurgents in eastern Ukraine that has left one person dead and others hospitalized with gunshot wounds. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Lawmakers call for tighter sanctions on Russia

Washington Examiner · April 21, 2014 12:00 am

Masked pro-Russia insurgents show a detained man, who reportedly is a member of the Right Sector, a nationalist Ukrainian group, when people gathered at barricades in front of a regional administration building that was seized by pro-Russian activists earlier in Donetsk, Ukraine, Sunday, April 20, 2014. The Ukrainian and Russian governments are reporting a shootout at a checkpoint set up by pro-Russian insurgents in eastern Ukraine that has left one person dead and others hospitalized with gunshot wounds. Pro-Russian activists brought to the stage a man who was accused of being a member of the radical organization Right sector. They also spoke about what he had found weapons and ammunition.(AP Photo/Max Vetrov)

Ukraine, Russia trade blame for shootout in east

Yuras Karmanau · April 20, 2014 4:59 pm

Sen. Bob Corker: U.S. inaction says to Russia, ‘Don’t embarrass us’

Sen. Bob Corker: U.S. inaction says to Russia, ‘Don’t embarrass us’

Rebecca Berg · April 20, 2014 4:00 am

US weighing military exercises in Eastern Europe

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US weighing military exercises in Eastern Europe

Lolita Baldor · April 19, 2014 11:32 pm

Masked pro-Russian activists guard a barricade at the regional administration building that they had seized earlier in Donetsk, Ukraine, Saturday, April 19, 2014. Pro-Russian insurgents defiantly refused Friday to surrender their weapons or give up government buildings in eastern Ukraine, despite a diplomatic accord reached in Geneva and overtures from the government in Kiev. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

At barricades, Ukraine insurgents await Easter

JIM HEINTZYURAS KARMANAU · April 19, 2014 7:20 pm

Ukraine crisis: turning points

Vladimir Isachenkov · April 19, 2014 11:14 am

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Deshchytsia, right, talks with Secretary of State John Kerry and European Union High Representative Catherine Ashton in a hotel hallway behind the scenes to thank them for the results of a quadrilateral meeting on Ukraine that had just ended between representatives of the US, Ukraine, Russia and the European Union, Thursday, April 17, 2014, in Geneva. (AP Photo/Jim Bourg, Pool)

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Time not on side of Russia-Ukraine detente deal

Lara Jakes · April 19, 2014 8:00 am

Local residents look at the airborne combat vehicle, which was destroyed during a Ukrainian night combat operation, in the village of Horodychevo, near Kramatorsk, Eastern Ukraine, Friday, April 18, 2014. Ukraine is hoping to placate Russia and calm hostilities with its neighbor even as the U.S. prepares a new round of sanctions to punish Moscow for what it regards as fomenting unrest. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

57-nation OSCE plays key Ukraine monitoring role

George Jahn · April 18, 2014 6:30 pm

Ukraine insurgents reject call to quit buildings

NATALIYA VASILYEVAPETER LEONARD · April 18, 2014 3:38 pm

Pro-Russian insurgents: will only leave occupied buildings if interim Ukrainian gov’t resigns

Pro-Russian insurgents: will only leave occupied buildings if interim Ukrainian gov’t resigns

Washington Examiner · April 18, 2014 9:28 am