Tag: Ukraine

Drivers of the first trucks of the Russian aid convoy are parked in the city of Luhansk, eastern Ukraine, Friday, Aug. 22, 2014. The first trucks in a Russian aid convoy crossed into eastern Ukraine on Friday, after more than a week's delay. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

West condemns Russia over convoy to Ukraine

MSTYSLAV CHERNOVPETER LEONARD · August 22, 2014 11:45 pm

President Obama delivers a statement on August 9 about ongoing U.S. activity in northern Iraq. Obama spoke before traveling to Martha's Vineyard for a two-week vacation. (Getty images / Chip Somodevilla)

Obama and the ‘wrong side of history’

Mona Charen · August 22, 2014 9:14 pm

FILE - This Aug. 19, 2013 file photo shows the New York Stock Exchange in New York. European stock markets turned lower on Friday, Aug. 22, 2014, while Wall Street was expected to open flat, amid concerns of an escalation in the Ukrainian crisis after a Russian aid convoy entered the country. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Stocks are mostly lower as Ukraine tensions flare

Ken Sweet · August 22, 2014 8:36 pm

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

Pentagon to Russia: Remove your trucks from Ukraine

Susan Crabtree · August 22, 2014 6:15 pm

On Another Front

Geoffrey Norman · August 22, 2014 3:19 pm

FILE - This Aug. 19, 2013 file photo shows the New York Stock Exchange in New York. European stock markets turned lower on Friday, Aug. 22, 2014, while Wall Street was expected to open flat, amid concerns of an escalation in the Ukrainian crisis after a Russian aid convoy entered the country. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Ukraine jitters send US stocks slightly lower

Washington Examiner · August 22, 2014 1:39 pm

Family members of Nur Shazana, a Malaysia Airlines crew member who was among the victims onboard Flight MH17, cry during a burial ceremony at Taman Selatan Muslim cemetery in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Friday, Aug. 22, 2014. Carried by soldiers and draped in the national flag, coffins carrying Malaysian victims of Flight MH17 returned home Friday to a country still searching for those onboard another doomed jet and a government battling the political fallout of the twin tragedies. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin)

MH17 bodies returned as Malaysia battles fallout

VINCENT THIANCHRIS BRUMMITT · August 22, 2014 1:29 pm

Ukraine’s Security Service chief calls movement of the Russian aid convoy a “direct invasion”

Washington Examiner · August 22, 2014 10:57 am

A Malaysia Airlines crew member cries as she waits outside Bunga Raya Complex at Kuala Lumpur International Airport where victims' bodies of the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 are to be flown back, in Sepang, Malaysia, Friday, Aug. 22, 2014. The bodies and ashes of 20 Malaysians killed when Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over Ukraine in July have arrived in Kuala Lumpur. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin)

Malaysia receives bodies from Flight 17 crash

Syawalludin Zain · August 22, 2014 3:28 am

First trucks of the Russian aid convoy stand in the Russian inspection zone inside a border control point with Ukraine, in the Russian town of Donetsk, Rostov-on-Don region, Russia, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Russian aid convoy advances toward Ukraine

Nataliya Vasilyeva · August 21, 2014 8:12 pm

People carry a stretcher with a dead man after shelling by the Ukrainian forces in Makiivka, 25 km (16 miles) from Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014. Government troops on Tuesday pressed attacks in the two largest cities held by pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine, as Kiev also pursued diplomatic efforts to resolve the conflict that has killed more than 2,000. (AP Photo/Antoine E.R. Delaunay)

Ukrainian govt troops take over much of Luhansk

NATALIYA VASILYEVAPETER LEONARD · August 20, 2014 8:06 pm

German Chancellor Angela Merkel smiles as she arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Angela Merkel’s Ukraine role mirrors rising German ambition

Geir Moulson · August 20, 2014 2:43 pm