Ukraine Labels Russia ‘Aggressor State’

Amid a renewed surge of fighting in eastern Ukraine, the country's parliament on Tuesday approved a statement identifying Russia as an "aggressor state" and European Union leaders weighed the possiblity of new sanctions against it, Reuters reported. The actions come in the wake of Saturday's shelling of the government-held port city of Mariupol, which killed 30 civilians and wounded around 100, and continued combat with pro-Russian rebels. Ukraine's...

© La Voix de l'Amérique - mardi 27 janvier 2015