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What is Russia playing at in Syria?
As expected, the American and Russian Presidents, Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin, respectively, traded blunt criticisms at the United Nations on Monday. They accused each other of failures in Syria, pretending to have Syrian interests at heart, even if neither could care less. Obama castigated Russia for taking the defence of the Syrian...
Ukraine: Crimean Tatars ‘being latently deported’
As part of current PACE session Ukrainian delegation organised round table devoted to issues of occupied Crimea …read more Source: World...
Russia bans Ukrainian airlines in reprisal for similar measure by Kiev
Moscow has banned all Ukrainian airlines with flights to Russia in retaliation for similar sanctions imposed by Kiev. …read more Source:...
Russia launches airstrikes in Syria, says targeting IS
Russia confirms the start of airstrikes against IS extremists in the Syrian provinces of Hama, Homs and Latakia, but doubts are being cast on Moscow’s claims of hitting IS targets. Russian military jets carried out airstrikes in Syria for the first time on Wednesday, targeting what Moscow said were Islamic State positions. But a US official...
Rebels give initial backing to small arms withdrawal
KIEV: Ukraine said on Wednesday it had struck an initial agreement with pro-Russian insurgents to withdraw smaller weapons from the buffer zone splitting eastern rebel lands from the rest of Ukraine. International monitors said the two sides’ February committment to pull back heavy weapons from the 500km line separating the forces was only...
OSCE welcomes Ukraine’s weapons withdrawal agreement
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has welcomed the agreement reached between Kiev and the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Luhansk on the withdrawal of weapons from the front line of their conflict in eastern Ukraine. “Today’s agreement is a good sign of the will of all to continue the peace process,...
Russia starts air strikes in Syria, tells US to steer clear
By Andrew Osborn and Phil Stewart Russia launched air strikes against targets in Syria on Wednesday in the Kremlin’s biggest intervention in the Middle East in decades, telling the US air force to steer clear while its warplanes were in action. Moscow’s assertion that it had attacked Islamic State was immediately challenged by...
Russia Approves Using Forces Abroad Amid Dispute With West Over Syria
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, in the latest step in his dispute with the West over the crisis in Syria, sought and won approval from the upper house of Parliament on Wednesday to use military force abroad. Russian officials portrayed the move as an attempt both to fight Islamic State militants and to try to ensure the survival of...
OSCE welcomes Ukraine’s weapons withdrawal agreement
The OSCE hails the agreement between Kiev and pro-Russia forces on the withdrawal of weapons. …read more Source:...
Ukraine, rebels give initial backing to small arms withdrawal
Kiev said Wednesday it had struck an initial agreement with pro-Russian insurgents to withdraw smaller weapons from the buffer zone splitting eastern rebel lands from the rest of Ukraine …read more Source: The Daily...
