Tag: Ukraine

Dutch policemen walk in the city of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine Sunday, July 27, 2014. A team of international police officers that had been due to visit the site of the Malaysian plane disaster in eastern Ukraine cancelled the trip Sunday after receiving reports of fighting in the area. Alexander Hug, the deputy head of a monitoring team from the OSCE in Europe, said it would be too dangerous for the unarmed mission to travel to the site from its current location in the rebel-held city of Donetsk. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

UN rights chief: Flight 17 possible war crime

John Heilprin · July 28, 2014 4:08 pm

Poland, Britain call for more sanctions on Russia

Washington Examiner · July 28, 2014 4:03 pm

A member of the Keferna family cries upon his return to the family house, which was destroyed by Israeli strikes in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, Saturday, July 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Is Obama To Blame for the World’s Crises?

Steve Chapman · July 28, 2014 2:36 pm

National Security

For White House, even small victories prove elusive in Gaza, Ukraine

Brian Hughes · July 28, 2014 1:19 pm

Beltway Confidential

Hillary Clinton insists yet again that the so-called reset with Russia was a success

Becket Adams · July 28, 2014 12:46 pm

This second page of a four page document released by the U.S. State Department in Washington, July 27, 2014 shows a satellite image that purports to shows self propelled artillery only found in Russian military units, on the Russian side of the border, oriented in the direction of a Ukrainian military unit within Ukraine. The United States says the images back up its claims that rockets have been fired from Russia into eastern Ukraine and heavy artillery for separatists has also crossed the border. (AP Photo/U.S. State Department)

National Security

US: Russia has fired rockets into Ukraine

Deb Riechmann · July 28, 2014 9:32 am

Fighting intensifies near MH17 disaster site

DMITRY LOVETSKYPETER LEONARD · July 27, 2014 9:45 pm

FILE - This, July 16, 2014, file photo shows Russia's President Vladimir Putin as he arrives for an official group photo during the BRICS summit at the Itamaraty palace, in Brasilia, Brazil. Months after Russia annexed Crimea and stepped up support for separatists in eastern Ukraine, Europe and the U.S. are still searching for an effective way to persuade Putin to change course. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File )

EU, US seek Vladimir Putin’s Achilles’ heel on Ukraine

JUERGEN BAETZMATTHEW LEE · July 27, 2014 8:57 pm

German vice chancellor: press Russian oligarchs

Washington Examiner · July 27, 2014 4:02 pm

FILE - In this July 19, 2014 file photo, Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott speaks during a press conference in Sydney, Australia. Australian police will be sent to the Malaysian airliner's crash site in rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine as part of a Dutch-led police force to secure the area and help recover victims' remains, Abbott said Sunday, July 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File)

Unarmed Aussie police to help secure Ukraine site

Rod McGuirk · July 27, 2014 2:39 pm

FILE - In this July 23, 2014 file photo, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak tables an emergency motion to condemn the suspected shooting of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in eastern Ukraine, at the Parliament house in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysia said Sunday, July 27, 2014 that it would send dozens of police to the Malaysian airliner's crash site in eastern Ukraine after pro-Russia separatists agreed to allow international police personnel to provide protection for investigators. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin, File)

Malaysia: Rebels to let police secure MH17 site

Washington Examiner · July 27, 2014 12:26 pm

A pro-Russian fighters' APC stands abandoned near the city of Lisichansk, Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine Saturday, July 26, 2014. Volunteers from the Donbas Battalion, a volunteer militia for a united Ukraine, told The Associated Press their units, along with the Ukrainian army, regained control of Lisichansk on Friday. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Study: Arms embargo wouldn’t hurt Russia

Danica Kirka · July 27, 2014 7:05 am