Section: Egylovers (Egypt)
Digging out the dead in eastern Ukraine
As the fighting seems to be ending in east Ukraine and the frontlines fall silent, the grim job of tracing all those killed or missing in the fighting is only just beginning. Thousands on both sides have been killed in battles such as at Donetsk airport, Debaltseve, and Ilovaisk. But the numbers of corpses retrieved and returned to their bereaved...
US Intelligence Chief Says He Backs Arming Ukraine
The top U.S. intelligence official said Thursday that supplying Ukraine with weapons to fight Moscow-backed separatists would provoke a “negative reaction” from Russia’s president, but that he personally backed the idea of providing “lethal assistance” to Kyiv. Appearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee,...
Ukraine begins artillery withdrawal from frontlines
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Russia Slams Western Threats of Fresh Sanctions Over Ukraine
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Putin threatens to cut off Ukraine’s gas supply
Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that Moscow will cut gas supplies to Ukraine if it fails to pay in advance for… …read more Source:...
US General: No Red Line in Ukraine to Trigger NATO Response
PENTAGON—The top U.S. general in Europe has indicated there is no red line that Russia can cross that would lead NATO to step in and help Ukraine militarily. “NATO is after all first a political alliance, and then a military alliance,” General Philip Breedlove, head of U.S. European Command, told reporters Wednesday at the Pentagon. Some NATO...
Putin: The ‘Lonely’ Leader Bent on Restoring Russian Power
Henry Ridgwell Published February 25, 2015 Despite Russia’s crisis-hit economy, approval ratings for President Vladimir Putin are near record highs. Western sanctions against Moscow have failed to curb Russian interference in Ukraine. As Henry Ridgwell reports from London, Putin analysts say the former spy is determined to restore Russia to...
Georgia Plans Reform Drive to Cope with Economic Crisis
TBILISI—Georgia plans a reform drive including privatizations, budget cuts and restructuring of foreign currency bank loans to contain the country’s economic crisis, officials said on Wednesday. The former Soviet republic’s economy has been battered by a plunge in the Russian rouble and the conflict in Ukraine. Declining foreign...
British Blogger Raises Awkward Questions on Russia’s Role in Ukraine
MOSCOW—It was not an unusual evening for war blogger Eliot Higgins. As he was rocking his infant son to sleep in his bedroom in the English city of Leicester, Higgins, who has written in-depth reports on the conflict in eastern Ukraine, was engaging in an online war of words with a pro-Kremlin blogger over Twitter. This time he and his Bellingcat...
Ukraine Reports ‘Significant Reduction’ in Fighting
Ukraine’s military is for the second consecutive day reporting a “significant reduction” in attacks by pro-Russian rebels, but says a cease-fire… …read more Source:...
