Tag: Ukraine

Ukraine’s hobbled navy: “Times are not the best”

Tim Sullivan · May 20, 2014 8:50 am

US: No sign Russia pulling back troops from border

Washington Examiner · May 19, 2014 5:56 pm

FILE - In this Sunday May 18, 2014 file photo pro-Russian militants drive atop of an armored personal carrier as they guard streets in Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine. The struggling interim government in Kiev has been counting on the election to install a president who would be seen as a legitimate successor to Viktor Yanukovych, who fled to Russia in February after months of street protests. But the long-anticipated election may not be considered legitimate by Russia, the West or Ukrainians themselves if people in a large part of the country are unable or unwilling to cast their ballots. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Threats aim to derail Ukraine’s presidential vote

YURAS KARMANAUNATALIYA VASILYEVA · May 19, 2014 2:28 pm

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's recent visit to Washington was a display of dismal diplomacy. (AP/Michael Sohn)

Germany should help lead NATO response to Russia

James Jay Carafano · May 19, 2014 2:38 am

Crimean Tatars chant slogans as they rally in Simferopol, Crimea, Sunday, May 18, 2014. Crimean Tatars gathered for a rally commemorating the 70th anniversary of Stalin's mass deportation. (AP Photo/Max Vetrov)

Ukraine marks 1944 deportation of Crimea’s Tatars

Nataliya Vasilyeva · May 18, 2014 3:31 pm

Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, second left, and Ukraine's former presidents Leonid Kuchma, first right, and Leonid Kravchuk, second right, during a round table reform discussion in Ukraine's eastern city of Kharkiv on Saturday, May 17, 2014. First left is Minister of regional development Volodymyr Groisman. (AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko, pool)

Eastern Ukrainians rap Kiev in talks

Nataliya Vasilyeva · May 18, 2014 12:05 am

The Sanctions Game

Geoffrey Norman · May 17, 2014 4:11 pm

Workers of the Ukrainian company Metinvest clear away debris in a government building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol on Friday. Local patrols by steelworkers have forced pro-Russia insurgents to retreat from the government buildings they had seized in a major city in eastern Ukraine, giving residents hope that a wave of anarchy was over.

Fight against Ukraine rebels threatens more unrest

YURAS KARMANAUPETER LEONARD · May 16, 2014 10:13 pm

Obama and Hollande discuss Ukraine and Nigeria

Washington Examiner · May 16, 2014 8:29 pm

US welcomes moves by pro-Russian forces in Ukraine

Washington Examiner · May 16, 2014 8:14 pm

Oil rises on renewed Ukraine tensions

Pablo Gorondi · May 16, 2014 11:18 am

Pro-Russian men hold their weapons atop a vehicle as they arrive to support their comrades at a checkpoint outside Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, May 15, 2014. On Thursday, Ukraine's acting president, Oleksandr Turchynov, claimed the Ukrainian army destroyed an insurgent base in the city of Slovyansk and another one in nearby Kramatorsk, about 150 kilometers (95 miles) west of the Russian border. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Steelworkers join police patrols in east Ukraine

NATALIYA VASILYEVAVLADIMIR ISACHENKOV · May 16, 2014 5:40 am