Tag: Ukraine

This Image made from AP video shows a building on fire in Odessa, Ukraine, on Friday, May 2, 2014. Deadly clashes took place in the southern Ukraine port of Odessa on Friday, triggered by Ukraine's offensive to recapture the eastern city of Slovyansk from pro-Russia forces. (AP Photo via AP Video)

National Security

Sen. Ron Johnson says Russia sanctions ‘haven’t worked’

Brian Hughes · May 4, 2014 4:00 am

The head of foreign military observers, German Col. Axel Schneider, speaks to the media after he has been feed, in Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, May 3, 2014. The leader of pro-Russia insurgents in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slovyansk said the military observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe who were held for more than a week have been released. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

OSCE observers held in Ukraine released

JIM HEINTZPETER LEONARD · May 3, 2014 8:22 pm

Zogby Report Card: Obama is an ‘ogre of a hellish national security state’

Paul Bedard · May 3, 2014 4:00 am

Firefighters evacuate an injured man outside the burnt trade union building where more than 30 people died trying to escape during clashes in Odessa, Ukraine, on Friday, May 2, 2014. Odessa had been largely tranquil since the February toppling of President Viktor Yanukovych, who fled to Russia. But clashes erupted Friday between pro-Russians and government supporters in the key port on the Black Sea coast, located 550 kilometers (330 miles) from the turmoil in the east. (AP Photo/Sergei Poliakov)

Ukrainian unrest spreads; dozens dead in Odessa

JIM HEINTZPETER LEONARD · May 3, 2014 1:23 am

Russian Federation Ambassador Vitaly Churkin addresses the United Nations Security Council, Friday, May 2, 2014. The U.N. Security Council is meeting in emergency session on Ukraine after Russia called for a public meeting on the growing crisis there. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

National Security

Security Council holds emergency Ukraine meeting

Cara Anna · May 2, 2014 8:33 pm

People in helmets (left and right), dressed as Russian factories workers, hold a man wearing Barack Obama's mask with mock NATO's bomb in chains, as they take part in a Communists demonstration in downtown Moscow, Russia, Thursday, May, 1, 2014. Thousands of Communists, members of Russia's main political parties and opposition activists staged competing marches in Moscow and other cities Thursday marking the traditional May Day holiday. Poster at the background reads : Peace, Labour, May. (AP Photo/Denis Tyrin)

National Security

Hagel: NATO to rethink relations with Russia

Robert Burns · May 2, 2014 7:06 pm

Ukraine: All Hope Destroyed?

Geoffrey Norman · May 2, 2014 5:31 pm

Russia's energy minister Alexander Novak speaks to the press after talks with European Union energy commissioner Guenther Oettinger and Ukraine's energy minister Yuri Prodan in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, May 2, 2014. Oettinger said that common ground must be found in Russia's dispute with Ukraine. Moscow has significantly raised the price of gas for Ukraine and threatened to limit deliveries if Kiev does not repay a debt of US dollar 3.5 billion and pay the new, higher prices. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

EU, Ukraine, Russia to hold gas price talks

Washington Examiner · May 2, 2014 3:27 pm

Ukraine’s president claims ‘many’ pro-Russia insurgents killed, wounded in Slovyansk

Washington Examiner · May 2, 2014 2:58 pm

Raw: Pro-Russians in Ukraine Prepare Defenses

Washington Examiner · May 2, 2014 9:46 am

President Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrive for their joint news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday. (AP/Charles Dharapak)

Beltway Confidential

Obama gives Vladimir Putin a May 25 deadline to avoid broader sanctions

Joel Gehrke · May 2, 2014 4:00 am

National Security

Obama threatens broader sanctions against Russia over Ukrainian instability

Brian Hughes · May 2, 2014 4:00 am