The mayor of Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv, is in grave, but stable condition after being shot in the back while riding his bicycle on Monday, according that cities icty hall. 54-year-old Hennady Kernes was shot as his bodyguards traveled close to him in a vehicle. They were not close enough to intervene. Kernes rides his […]
Ukraine’s prime minister says Russian military aircraft have repeatedly crossed into Ukraine’s airspace, in what he called Russian aggression designed to undermine global security. Arseniy Yatsenyuk told reporters Saturday that Russian forces had “violated” Ukrainian airspace seven times overnight. “We do understand the reason Russian military did it. The only reason is to provoke […]
Just two hours after Ukrainian forces initiated an operation in eastern Ukraine to drive out insurgents occupying buildings in the region, where two pro-Russian occupiers where killed, Russia’s Defense Minister said that Russia had been “forced to react,” and announced military drills and exercises for their ground troops as well as air force stationed on […]
On the heels of the scrapping of the truce between the Ukrainian government and the pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, the first U.S. Army paratroopers arrived in Poland for the start of military maneuvers that are slated to last approximately one month. The paratroopers are part of what is set to involve about 600 troops […]