Tag: Ukraine

Smoke rises after shelling in the town of Novoazovsk, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. Towering columns of smoke rose Tuesday from outside a city in Ukraine's far southeast after what residents said was a heavy artillery barrage. It was the second straight day that attacks were reported in the vicinity of Novoazovsk, which is in eastern Ukraine's separatist Donetsk region but previously had seen little fighting between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Battle for Ukraine’s southeast coast heats up

Peter Leonard · August 27, 2014 8:24 pm

Ukrainian soldiers park their hardware on roadside as they are waiting for the start of the march into the town of Mariupol, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014. Heavy shelling hit a town of Novoazovsk in southeastern Ukraine on Wednesday, the third day of an assault that has forced government troops to spread their ranks thinner along the Russian border. Ukraine claimed the shelling was coming both from pro-Russian separatists and from Russia itself. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

US: Russia directing new offensive in Ukraine

Bradley Klapper · August 27, 2014 7:49 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin apparently is a very patient man. (AP Photo)

Vladimir Putin imposes his own reset on Obama

Jed Babbin · August 27, 2014 7:47 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, shakes hands with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, right, as Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, center, looks at them, prior to their talks after after posing for a photo in Minsk, Belarus, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. Leaders of Russia, Belarus, two other former Soviet republics as well as top EU officials are meeting in Minsk, Belarus, for a highly anticipated summit to discuss the crisis in Ukraine which has left more than 2,000 dead and displaced over 300,000 people. (AP Photo/Kazakh Presidential Press Service, Sergei Bondarenko, Pool)

No sign of quick end to Ukraine conflict

NATALIYA VASILYEVAPETER LEONARD · August 27, 2014 12:15 am

Could Happen to Anyone

Geoffrey Norman · August 26, 2014 3:39 pm

In this photo taken on Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014, Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko makes a statement to the press in Kiev, Ukraine. Poroshenko on Monday, Aug. 25, dissolved parliament and called for early elections in October 26 as his country continues to battle a pro-Russian insurgency in its eastern regions. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukrainian president dissolves parliament

Jim Heintz · August 25, 2014 8:35 pm

AP reporters: Weaponry and supplies have been coming from direction of Russia into Ukraine

Washington Examiner · August 25, 2014 7:42 pm

President Barack Obama, center, and first lady Michelle Obama, left, walk with their daughter Malia, right, across the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2014, following their arrival on Marine One helicopter. Obama returned to Washington after spending two weeks with his family on the island of Martha's Vineyard. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama back in DC amid crises, as if he never left

Jim Kuhnhenn · August 25, 2014 5:59 pm

A pro-Russian rebel delivers stands atop a damaged armored personnel carrier of the Ukrainian army on central square in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Vacation assignment for Obama: A real Russia strategy

James Jay Carafano · August 24, 2014 9:00 pm

Pro-Russian rebels escorting captured Ukrainian army prisoners on central square in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2014. Ukraine has retaken control of much of its eastern territory bordering Russia in the last few weeks, but fierce fighting for the rebel-held cities of Donetsk and Luhansk persists. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

National Security

Rebels parade captured Ukrainian soldiers in east

PETER LEONARDLAURA MILLS · August 24, 2014 7:25 pm

National Security

Russian aid trucks leave; highlight dire needs

Washington Examiner · August 23, 2014 8:07 pm

Trucks move towards a border control point with Ukraine in the Russian town of Donetsk, Rostov-on-Don region, Russia, Friday, Aug. 22, 2014. The first trucks of the Russian aid convoy crossed the Ukrainian inspection zone Friday morning. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

National Security

Administration condemns Russian move into Ukraine

Robert Burns · August 22, 2014 11:50 pm