Deal Reached On Ukraine Crisis, President’s Office Says

Deal Reached On Ukraine Crisis, President’s Office Says

McClatchy Tribune News Service

KIEV — Negotiators from the European Union and Russia have agreed with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and the opposition on a solution to the political crisis, the president’s office says.

The deal was expected to be signed later Friday.

The announcement came after marathon talks to resolve the crisis in Ukraine had gone on through the night.

Ukraine’s Health Ministry said Friday that political unrest in the capital Kiev had claimed at least 77 lives since Tuesday.

Hundreds of people have been injured in clashes between anti-government demonstrators and security forces, centered on the main protest site in Independence Square.

Yanukovych told European Union ministers on Thursday he was ready to hold early presidential and parliamentary elections, as the bloc paved the way for sanctions on individuals responsible for deadly violence.

Sergei L. Loiko/Los Angeles Times/MCT

Start your day with National Memo Newsletter

Know first.

The opinions that matter. Delivered to your inbox every morning

Sununu Was The 'Last Reasonable Republican' -- And Now He's Not

Gov. Chris Sununu

Namby, meet pamby. I’m talking, naturally, of Chris Sununu, governor of New Hampshire, who slithered into a Zoom call on This Week with George Stephanopoulos on Sunday to explain why he will be voting for Donald Trump for president come November. Not because Trump doesn’t have any responsibility for the attempted coup and attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. He does. Sununu thinks that all the insurrectionists “must be held accountable and prosecuted.” Except one: the man he’s voting for in November.

Keep reading...Show less
History And Terror In The Skies Over Israel

Anti-missile system operating against Iranian drones,seen near Ashkelon, Israel on April 13, 2024

Photo by Amir Cohen/REUTERS

Iran has launched a swarm of missile and drone strikes on Israel from Iranian territory, marking a significant military escalation between the two nations. Israel and Iran have been engaged in a so-called shadow war for decades, with Iranian proxies like Hezbollah rocketing Israel from Lebanon and Syria, and Israel retaliating by launching air strikes on Hezbollah missile sites. Israel has also launched strikes on Iranian targets in other countries, most recently an airstrike on part of the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria, which killed several top Iranian “advisers” to its military, including Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior officer in Iran’s Quds Force, an espionage and paramilitary arm of Iran’s army.

Keep reading...Show less
{{ post.roar_specific_data.api_data.analytics }}