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U.S. pledges $1 billion aid to Ukraine

KIEV — Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Kiev Tuesday to show U.S. support for the fledgling Ukraine government, and the Obama administration announced with his arrival a $1 billion energy subsidy package. The fast-moving developments came as the United States readied economic sanctions amid worries that Moscow was ready to stretch its military […]

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91-year-old Auburn woman recalls youth in occupied Ukraine

AUBURN — When the Nazis arrived at Mary Dycio’s home in western Ukraine in 1941, she was jubilant. A girl of 19, she’d endured two years of occupation by the Soviets; the foul, sometimes barefoot soldiers and the plainclothes Communists who’d appear to snatch people away. “When they were coming to arrest you, they never […]

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