Tag: Ukraine

National Security

VIDEO: Lawmakers condemn handling of Malaysia Airlines crash site

Lisa Ruhl · July 29, 2014 6:34 pm

Secretary of State John Kerry, speaks to reporters at the State Department in Washington, Tuesday, July 29, 2014, during a news conference with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin. The United States says there's been "no shred of evidence" that Russia is willing to help end the violence and bloodshed between the Ukraine separatists backed by Moscow and the government in Kiev. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

National Security

U.S.: No sign Russia helping to ease Ukraine fight

Lara Jakes · July 29, 2014 4:27 pm

A pro-Russian fighter gestures near a body of a community service worker who was killed during the shelling outside a residential apartment house in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine Tuesday, July 29, 2014. Local residents said it was a shelling from direction of Ukrainian army's positions. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Shelling adds to mounting civilian toll in Ukraine

MSTYSLAV CHERNOVPETER LEONARD · July 29, 2014 3:38 pm

Smoke from shelling rises over a residential apartment house in Shakhtarsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine on Monday, July 28, 2014. An international police team abandoned its attempt to reach the crash site of a Malaysia Airlines plane for a second day running Monday as clashes raged in a town on the road to the area.(AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Fighting in Ukraine prompts residents to flee

MSTYSLAV CHERNOVPETER LEONARD · July 28, 2014 8:57 pm

Ukraine Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin answers questions during an interview at the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, Monday, July 28, 2014. Klimkin says pro-Russian separatists are continuing to try to manipulate the wreckage of the Malaysian airliner that the United States and others have accused the rebels of shooting down.(AP Photo/J. David Ake)

Ukraine: Rebels still manipulating crash site

Matthew Lee · July 28, 2014 8:40 pm

National Security

VIDEO: More Russia sanctions could come this week

Ed Sykes · July 28, 2014 7:15 pm

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