Tag: Ukraine

President Obama pauses while speaking in the Rose Garden of the White House. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

National Security

Obama: Vladimir Putin must compel separatists to cooperate with crash investigation

Susan Crabtree · July 21, 2014 4:10 pm

VIDEO: President Obama’s full statements on Ukraine

Ed Sykes · July 21, 2014 4:07 pm

The Obama administration announced the new sanctions in response to Russia's continued involvement in the violent conflict between Ukraine's government and pro-Russian separatists.ÃÂ The sanctions mean that Kalashnikov Concern is barred from importing its rifles, including the AK-47 and the AK-74, into the U.S., a Treasury Department official said. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

New sanctions have U.S. gun buyers scrambling for popular Russian rifles

Becket Adams · July 21, 2014 3:42 pm

Obama on Russia: ‘Behavior That Has No Place In the Community of Nations’

Michael Warren · July 21, 2014 2:48 pm

This undated photo, provided by Khairil Azwan, shows Mohammad Afif. Afif, 19, was killed along with his parents and three siblings when Flight 17 was shot down on July 17. Afif's friends described him as someone who was always able to lift people's spirits. (AP Photo/Khairil Azwan)

Flight 17 tragic end for family of 6 coming home

Satish Cheney · July 21, 2014 2:23 pm

President Obama's fundraising swing through the West Coast will include events in Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles, where he will deliver remarks on the importance of job-driven skills training at a community college in Los Angeles. (AP Photo)

Obama continues midterm money chase amid challenges in Ukraine, Gaza

Susan Crabtree · July 21, 2014 12:29 pm

A piece of the crashed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 lies in the grass near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, July 20, 2014. Rebels in eastern Ukraine took control Sunday of the bodies recovered from downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, and the U.S. and European leaders demanded that Russian President Vladimir Putin make sure rebels give international investigators full access to the crash site.(AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

US working on case against Russia on downed plane

Matthew Lee · July 21, 2014 7:11 am

A pro-Russian fighter guards the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, July 20, 2014. Rebels in eastern Ukraine took control Sunday of the bodies recovered from downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, and the U.S. and European leaders demanded that Russian President Vladimir Putin make sure rebels give international investigators full access to the crash site.(AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

National Security

US outlines case against Russia on downed plane

Matthew Lee · July 21, 2014 12:43 am

People walk next to a refrigerated train loaded with the bodies of victims, in Torez, eastern Ukraine, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, Sunday, July 20, 2014. Armed rebels forced emergency workers to hand over all 196 bodies recovered from the Malaysia Airlines crash site and had them loaded Sunday onto refrigerated train cars bound for a rebel-held city, Ukrainian officials and monitors said.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Bodies from downed jet piled in boxcars in Ukraine

YURAS KARMANAUPETER LEONARD · July 20, 2014 11:36 pm

President Barack Obama pauses while speaking about the situation in Ukraine Friday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Obama dragged down by chaos at home and abroad, not by the economy

Michael Barone · July 20, 2014 9:00 pm

People sign a condolence register at St. Vitus church in Hilversum, Netherlands, Sunday, July 20, 2014. An attack on a Malaysian jetliner shot down over Ukraine on Thursday killed 298 people from nearly a dozen nations, more than half being Dutch. Worshippers at church services across the Netherlands prayed Sunday for the victims of the Ukraine air disaster and their next of kin, as anger built over the separatist rebels' hindering of the investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)

Distraught Dutch mother: ‘Send my children home’

Mike Corder · July 20, 2014 8:26 pm

A man looks for the remains of victims in the debris at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, July 19, 2014. World leaders demanded Friday that pro-Russia rebels who control the eastern Ukraine crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 give immediate, unfettered access to independent investigators to determine who shot down the plane. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Cameron demands Russia cease support for rebels

Danica Kirka · July 20, 2014 5:06 pm