DONETSK, UKRAINE — There was heavy fighting Monday on the outskirts of the eastern Ukrainian city of Slovyansk, as government security forces resumed operations aimed at wresting control of the town from pro-Russian militants. But the government lost another helicopter, and it isn’t winning the battle for hearts and minds. The Ukrainian government says its security forces […]
Afghan police fired shots into the air Tuesday to disperse villagers demanding aid at the site of a massive landslide in northeastern Afghanistan.Authorities say no one was injured when several people rushed toward a truck carrying emergency supplies to those affected by last week’s landslide.Hundreds of people in the village of Abi Barik in […]
Another Ukraine government helicopter was shot down on Monday, this is the fourth helicopter in recent weeks to succumb to the gunfire of the pro-Russian separatists in the Eastern region of the Ukraine. The shootdown took place during the latest clash between pro-Russian militants and Ukrainian government forces in the separatist controlled eastern Ukrainian city […]
On Thursday, the same day the pro-Russian militants took control of the regional prosecutor’s office in the eastern city of Donetsk, Ukraine’s interim president Olexander Turchynov, in Kiev, reinstated the draft that includes all nonexempt Ukrainian men between the ages of 18 and 25. The military draft in that country was discontinued in 2010. This […]