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Russia warns over arrival of US paratroopers in Ukraine
Arrival of 300 US Army soldiers to train Ukraine’s national guard sparks warnings by Russia of escalation in conflict. …read more Source: AL...
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:...
US army begins training Ukraine forces
MOSCOW: About 300 US Army paratroopers have arrived in Ukraine for training exercises with national guard units, a move criticised by the Kremlin and eastern Ukraine’s Russia-backed separatist rebels. The troops, from the Italy-based 173rd Airborne Brigade, are to spend several weeks training a total of about 900 Ukrainian national...
US paratroopers in Ukraine to train forces as Moscow warns move will destabilise war-torn country
The move raised heckles in Moscow, which accuses the United States of backing the protests that brought down Ukraine’s Kremlin-backed president Viktor Yanukovych last year …read more Source: Times of...
More remains found at Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash site
Malaysia Airlines MH17 was downed last July in eastern Ukraine killing all 298 passengers. …read more Source: Anadolu...
Kremlin criticizes arrival of US military in Ukraine
The U.S. Army announced the arrival of the paratroopers on April 16, saying they would train 900 members of a Ukrainian force that was called up in 2014 to bring volunteers and pro-government militia under government control. …read more Source: World...
US troops arrive in Ukraine to train national guard units, a move criticized by Moscow
About 300 US Army paratroopers have arrived in Ukraine for training exercises with national guard units, a move More… …read more Source: Emirates...
UN: death toll in Ukraine fighting now above 6,100
The UN says the number of people killed in a year of fighting in Ukraine has now passed 6,100, and says it’s increasingly worried that breaches in a cease-fire will further worsen the human rights situation in parts of the country’s east. …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine wants global court to investigate crimes in Crimea and east
By Anthony Deutsch Ukraine wants the International Criminal Court to investigate all alleged recent war crimes in Crimea and eastern Ukraine, Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said in an interview, broadening an existing probe. Ukraine has already given the global court the authority to investigate crimes on its territory from November 21, 2013, to...
