Category: separatists

Miners Rescued After Being Trapped Underground in East Ukraine: Separatists

Seventy-seven miners were rescued on Saturday after being trapped underground during a power outage and Ukrainian’s shelling of territory controlled by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, local officials said. The miners were underground when power was lost in the Zasyadko coal mine in Ukraine’s Donetsk region but all were now safe and no one was…


Ukraine Calls for Path Into NATO After Russia Masses Troops

KYIV—President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on NATO on Tuesday to lay out a path for Ukraine to join the Western military alliance, after days in which Russia has massed troops near the conflict-hit Donbass region. Zelenskiy’s comments drew an immediate rebuke from Moscow, which said Kyiv’s approach to NATO could further inflame the situation in Donbass,…