Tag: Ukraine

A worker paints yellow over the blue at one of Moscow's Stalin-era skyscraper with a star on top, which was painted in colors of Ukrainian national flag in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Protesters plant Ukraine flag on Moscow skyscraper

Washington Examiner · August 20, 2014 1:01 pm

Local residents stand in line to get benefit payments outside the rebel headquarters in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014. A crowd formed outside the rebel headquarters, once the Donetsk region administrative building, in Donetsk amid rumors that pension and disability payments and child assistance were being given out. (AP Photo/Max Vetrov)

Ukraine’s rebel capital seeks ersatz normality

Peter Leonard · August 20, 2014 9:10 am

A Russian military truck carries a MSTA-S self-propelled howitzer about 10 kilometers from the Russia-Ukrainian border control point at town Donetsk, Rostov-on-Don region, Russia, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014. Ukrainian government troops were fighting pro-Russian rebels in the streets of Luhansk on Tuesday and captured most of a town near the eastern city of Donetsk, tightening the noose around that key rebel-held stronghold, Ukrainian officials said. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Ukrainian forces press attacks on rebel-held areas

Peter Leonard · August 19, 2014 6:43 pm

Foreign Ministers of France Laurent Fabius, Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin, Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Russia Sergey Lavrov, from left, go for a walk before a meeting at the Guesthouse of Foreign Ministry Villa Borsig in Berlin, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Steffi Loos)

Germany’s Merkel to visit Ukraine on Saturday

Washington Examiner · August 19, 2014 6:08 pm

FILE - In this July 23, 2014 file photo, a man walks past a piece of the crashed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in a garden in the village of Petropavlivka, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine. The remains of at least 15 Malaysians killed when the jetliner with 298 people on board was shot down over Ukraine on July 17 will be returned to their home country this week, the first Malaysian victims of the disaster to be flown home, the country's defense minister said Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, File)

Remains of Malaysian MH17 victims to be flown home

Syawalludin Zain · August 19, 2014 1:09 pm

A Russian APC moves in a field in about 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) from the Russia-Ukrainian border control point at Russian town of Donetsk, Rostov-on-Don region, Monday, Aug. 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Ukraine: Dozens killed in shelling of convoy

Nataliya Vasilyeva · August 19, 2014 1:05 am

In this image taken Saturday Aug. 16, 2014 a man shows his neighbour's apartment that was burned down after a missile hit a residential area in Lysychansk, Ukraine, during the fighting between the Ukrainian army and the pro-Russian rebels. Lysychansk was retaken by Ukrainian army late last month but has seen sporadic clashes until earlier last week. After months of rebel occupation and weeks of Ukrainian liberation, the residents of Lysychansk this shell-shocked border town say they hope simply to rebuild their former lives _ but fear the return of war to their doorstep. (AP Photo/Vitnija Saldava)

Grief, relief as ravaged Ukrainian town rebuilds

Vitnija Saldava · August 18, 2014 6:30 pm

EU pledges $168m to offset Russia sanctions cost

Washington Examiner · August 18, 2014 11:09 am

A Pro-Russian missile launcher drives in the town of Krasnodon, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014. A column of several dozen heavy vehicles, including tanks and at least one rocket launcher, rolled through rebel-held territory on Sunday.(AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Ukraine says troops entered rebel-held city

Peter Leonard · August 17, 2014 10:52 pm

A driver carries empty water bottles as he walks past trucks forming part of an aid convoy parked in a field about 28 kilometers (17 miles) from the Ukrainian border, near Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Rostov-on-Don region, Russia, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2014. Hundreds of trucks in a Russian aid convoy are waiting near the Ukrainian border as complicated procedures drag on for allowing them into eastern Ukraine to help civilians suffering amid fighting between Ukrainian forces and separatists. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Russian aid convoy waiting for security guarantees

Washington Examiner · August 16, 2014 7:30 pm

Drivers prepare to show cargos to journalists in a field where the aid convoy is parked in Voronezh, about 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Ukrainian border, Rostov-on-Don region, Russia, Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. The Ukrainian government threatened to use all means available to block the convoy if the Red Cross was not allowed to inspect the cargo. Such an inspection would ease concerns that Russia could use the aid shipment as cover for a military incursion in support of the separatists, who have come under growing pressure from government troops. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Russia denies its vehicles destroyed in Ukraine

Washington Examiner · August 15, 2014 11:07 pm

National Security

Russian assures Hagel on Ukrainian relief

Robert Burns · August 15, 2014 9:12 pm