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 […]
It was publicly stated by the Ukrainian government in Kiev on Wednesday that control of the situation, for all intents and purposes has been lost of the eastern region of the country. The interim president of Ukraine, Oleksandr Turchynov says that he believes that Russia has now set an eye on six more regions in […]
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 […]