Section: Lebanon
NATO to Keep Monitoring Black Sea following Ukraine’s Kerch Strait Standoff
NATO will “continue to assess its presence in the Black Sea region”, where the alliance’s ships are carrying out routine patrols and drills, NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu was quoted by Turkey’s Anadolu news agency as saying. She said that “there is already a lot of NATO in the Black Sea” and that its vessels spent 120 days in the...
Kremlin Regrets Trump Decision to Cancel Putin Talks
US President Donald Trump’s decision to cancel talks with Russia’s Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit was regrettable, the Kremlin said. “We regret the US administration’s decision to cancel the meeting,” Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian news agencies. “This means that discussion of important issues on the...
Ukraine bars entry to Russian men of combat age citing invasion fears
Ukraine Friday banned Russian men of combat age from entering the country, a move introduced under martial law after Russia fired on and captured three Ukrainian naval ships off Crimea last weekend. …read more Source: The Daily...
Russia-Ukraine Tension: Ukraine Urges NATO to Deploy Warships to the Sea of Azov
Ukraine’s president is urging NATO to deploy warships to the Sea of Azov. …read more Source:...
Russia deploys new S-400 missile systems in Crimea: TASS
Russia Thursday deployed a new battalion of advanced S-400 surface-to-air missile systems in Crimea, its fourth such battalion, the TASS news agency cited a spokesman for Russia’s Black Sea Fleet as saying. …read more Source: The Daily...
Russia-Ukraine Tension: Putin Defends Seizure of Ukrainian Ships
Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted Wednesday that Russian forces were in the right to seize three Ukrainian ships last weekend. …read more Source:...
NATO to meet Ukraine minister amid Azov stand-off: AFP
…read more Source: Al-Manar TV
Trump cancels Putin meeting over Ukraine crisis
U.S. President Donald Trump Thursday said he was canceling a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin scheduled to take place during the upcoming summit for the Group of 20 industrialized nations in Argentina, citing the current Ukraine crisis. …read more Source: The Daily...
Captured Ukrainian sailors taken to Moscow: lawyers
Ukrainian sailors held by Russia since it seized three of Kiev’s ships have been taken from Russian-annexed Crimea to Moscow, two of their lawyers told AFP Thursday. …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine to only allow Ukrainian citizens to travel to Crimea
Ukraine’s border service said Thursday it would only allow Ukrainian citizens to travel to Crimea following the imposition of martial law until Dec. 26. …read more Source: The Daily...
