Tag: Ukraine

A girl says goodbye to her friend, a volunteer, before they are sent to the eastern part of Ukraine to join the ranks of special battalion "Azov", during a ceremony to take the oath of allegiance to Ukraine, in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, June 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

Rebels agree to abide by cease-fire in Ukraine

MARKO DROBNJAKOVICVLADIMIR ISACHENKOV · June 23, 2014 8:36 pm

British Foreign Secretary William Hague addressees the media upon arrival at the EU foreign ministers council at the European Council headquarters in Luxembourg city, Luxembourg, Monday, June 23, 2014. EU foreign ministers will discuss the situation in Ukraine and Iraq. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

EU ministers: Sanctions if Russia won’t cooperate

Juergen Baetz · June 23, 2014 1:41 pm

Maidan Voyage

Christopher Caldwell · June 23, 2014 4:00 am

Russian Vladimir Putin, second right, takes part in a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier outside Moscow's Kremlin Wall, in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, June 22, 2014, to mark the 73rd anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russia’s Putin calls for compromise in Ukraine

Lynn Berry · June 23, 2014 12:22 am

Ukraine orders 1-week government cease-fire

DAVID McHUGHMARKO DOBRNJAKOVIC · June 20, 2014 8:17 pm

In December 2011, President Obama said: "We're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq with a representative government that was elected by its people. We're building a new partnership between our nations. And we are ending a war, not with a final battle, but with a final march toward home. This is an extraordinary achievement, nearly nine years in the making." (AP Photo)

Questions for President Obama

Mona Charen · June 20, 2014 4:54 pm

Russian buildup seen as fighting rages in Ukraine

Washington Examiner · June 19, 2014 9:04 pm

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, center, and new Ukrainian prosecutor-general Vitaly Yarema, left, during a session of the parliament in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, June 19, 2014. The Ukrainian parliament on Thursday approved Ukraine's new foreign minister, prosecutor-general and National Bank Chief. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

Ukraine open to Western involvement in pipeline

Nataliya Vasilyeva · June 19, 2014 2:43 pm

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble , left, and US Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew attend a press conference after a meeting in Berlin, Germany, Thursday June 19, 2014. (AP Photo/dpa, Wolfgang Kumm)

US Treasury chief presses Russia on Ukraine peace

Washington Examiner · June 19, 2014 12:39 pm

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a joint press conference with Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos in Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday, June 18, 2014. Biden met with Santos just three days after Colombia's president won re-election in what was widely seen as an endorsement of talks to end the Western Hemisphere's last sizable armed conflict.(AP Photo/Javier Galeano)

Biden commends Ukraine’s president on peace plan

Washington Examiner · June 19, 2014 2:07 am

Ukraine’s president offers cease-fire in east

David McHugh · June 18, 2014 5:11 pm

Energy and Environment

Russia-Ukraine natural gas fight comes to Capitol Hill

Zack Colman · June 17, 2014 9:00 am