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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...
Putin Accuses Kyiv of ‘Cutting Off’ Eastern Ukraine
Henry Ridgwell Published April 17, 2015 Russian President Vladimir Putin, in his annual televised call-in program, again denied there were any Russian troops fighting in Ukraine. He also said the West was trying to ‘contain’ Russia with …read more Source:...
Ukrainian Volunteers Search for Bodies of Missing Soldiers
Published April 16, 2015 As the cease-fire becomes more fragile in eastern Ukraine, a team of volunteer body collectors travels to the small village of Savur Mohyla in the what pro-Russian separatists call the Donetsk Peoples Republic – to retrieve bodies of fallen Ukrainian servicemen from rebel-held territories. Adam Bailes traveled with...
Pro-Russia journalist shot dead in Ukraine
A Ukrainian journalist known for his pro-Russian views was gunned down in broad daylight in Kiev a day after a pro-Russian lawmaker was found dead, local police said. Oles Buzyna, 45, who worked as editor-in-chief of a leading daily until March, was killed early Thursday afternoon by two masked men shooting from … …read more Source:...
Ukraine Journalist Shot Dead Near Kyiv
A prominent Ukrainian journalist has been shot dead on the street, said Ukranian officials Thursday. Ukraine’s Interior Ministry … …read more Source:...
Russia says US forced it to act on Ukraine
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu on Thursday blamed the United States and its allies for the conflict in Ukraine, saying their drive to bring Kiev closer to the West was a threat to Moscow and had forced it to react. Speaking at an annual security conference, Shoigu accused Washington of seeking worldwide military and political dominance....
Search area for Flight MH370 to double if plane not found
Government ministers from Australia, China and Malaysia on Thursday said they would double the search area for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 if wreckage is not found in the current target area. No trace has been found of the Boeing 777 aircraft, which disappeared in March last year carrying 239 passengers and crew in what has become one...
