week1-烏克蘭危機

 The presidents of Russia and Ukraine held key talks yesterday with little hopes for the a breakthrough in resolving  raging conflict pitting Kiev against pro-Moscow separatist rebels

Hours before the crunch talks, Kiev ratcheted up tensions by releasing footage purporting to show 10 Russian soldiers captured on its territory who a Moscow military source said had crossed into Ukraine “by accident.”

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Minsk for a meeting with top EU officials and the leaders of Kazakhstan and Belarus, in a bid to defuse tensions that some fear could trigger all-out war between Kiev and its former Soviet master, Moscow.

US National Security Adviser Susan Rice accused Russia of “military incursions” into Ukraine using artillery, air defense systems, tanks and troops, which she said represented a “significant escalation” in the conflict.

“Repeated Russian incursions into Ukraine unacceptable. Dangerous and inflammatory,” she wrote on Twitter.

Kiev’s security service said paratroopers from Russia’s 98th airborne division were captured about 50km southeast of the main rebel stronghold of Donetsk.

Ukrainian media yesterday aired footage purporting to show the captured Russian paratroopers confessing to entering Ukraine in armored convoys.

“We traveled here in columns, not along the roads, but across the fields,” says one of the men who identifies himself as corporal Ivan Milchakov from the 331st Parachute Regiment based in central Russia. “I didn’t even see when we crossed the border.”

Kiev has long accused Moscow of stoking the separatist insurgency raging in its east, but this is the first time Ukrainian authorities have claimed to have captured soldiers from Russia’s regular army.

“Officially, they are at exercises in various corners of Russia. In reality, they are participating in military aggression against Ukraine,” Ukrainian Minister of Defense Valeriy Geletey said on Facebook.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2014/08/27/2003598361                                                             Structure of the Lead：

  who- The presidents of Russia and Ukraine

   when- yesterday                                                                                                              what-for the a breakthrough in resolving  raging conflict                                                      why-against pro-Moscow separatist rebels                                                                          where-not given                                                                                                            how-not given 

Keywords：

1.separatist :獨立主義者

 2.. rebel 反叛                                                                                                                                              3. ratcheted up 加深                                                                                                                                     4.purport 意味著                                                                                                                                          5.cross 阻撓                                                                                                                                                6.bid  企圖                                                                                                                                                  7. defuse 消除危險                                                                                                                                      8.trigger  引起                                                                                                                                              9.incursion 入侵                                                                                                                                            10. escalation 增加                                                                                                                                      11 inflammatory 激動的                                                                                                                                12 airborne 空降的                                                                                                                                      13.  division 部分                                                                                                                                         14    confessing to 承認                                                                                                                                15  convoy 護送                                                                                                                                           16    insurgency  暴動