Section: Egylovers (Egypt)
Ukraine: A war funded by people’s donations
Kiev, Ukraine – Every day volunteers stand with clear plastic collection boxes in Maidan, the scene of deadly protests that eventually escalated into full-blown war. People walking past flower-strewn steps in Independence Square or along the memorial-lined streets leading to it pause and dig into their pockets for small bills. The donations...
Mother of Ukraine Pilot Held in Russia Seeks Global Support
UNITED NATIONS—The mother of a Ukrainian helicopter pilot imprisoned in Russia is on a global campaign seeking support from world leaders to pressure President Vladimir Putin to free her daughter. Nadezhda Savchenko was captured by a pro-Russian militia and has been in Russian custody since June 2014 on charges that she was involved …...
US Forces Launch Ukraine Military Training
[unable to retrieve full-text content]U.S. troops have begun a training program for Ukrainian forces at a base in western Ukraine, far from the fighting in the east, but linked to it very closely. VOA’s Al Pessin reports from London. …read more Source:...
US, Ukraine Start Military Training, Defying Russian Fury
YAVORIV, WESTERN UKRAINE—Troops from the United States and Ukraine kicked off joint training exercises Monday intended to help bolster Ukraine’s defenses against incursions from Russian-backed separatists in the east. Speaking under driving rain… …read more Source:...
Harper foreign policy: All gesture, no action
Nobody should be surprised that Canada is getting directly involved in Ukraine on the side of Kiev. On Tuesday, Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that he was deploying “significant additional military resources to help train and build the capacity of Ukrainian forces personnel”. These will be in the form of...
Putin ‘Ready to Work with US’
MOSCOW—Russia has key interests in common with the United States and needs to work with it on a common agenda, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday in a television interview. In his comments to the state-run Rossiya channel, Putin appeared to soften his anti-American rhetoric after being highly critical. Relations between Moscow and...
Russia warns over arrival of US paratroopers in Ukraine
About 300 US Army paratroopers have arrived in Ukraine for training exercises with national guard units – a move that Moscow and eastern Ukraine’s pro-Russian separatist rebels have warned will escalate the conflict. The troops, from the Italy-based 173rd Airborne Brigade, are to spend six months training a total of about 900...
NATO: Guardian of peace or bellicose bully?
“We are pretty close to a new Cold War because of Russia’s illegal actions in Ukraine,” says former Secretary-General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen who led the alliance from 2009 to 2014. In… …read more Source:...
Russia Warns US Troops in Ukraine Could Destabilize Situation
Russia has warned that the presence of foreign military personnel could “destabilize” the situation in Ukraine, after U.S. paratroopers arrived this week to train Ukrainian solders. A spokesman for President Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters Friday that instructors from “third countries,” besides Russia or...
Russia condemns US over Ukraine mission
More to this story Russia has accused the US of wanting “complete dominance” after the arrival of 300 troops in Ukraine to train Ukrainian troops. Speaking at an annual security conference in Moscow on Thursday, Sergei Shoigu, Russian defence minister, said the US had crossed all possible lines and the move “could not have...
