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More Russian tanks, equipment cross Ukraine border – US official
Russian tanks and heavy military equipment have crossed the Ukrainian border in the last few days in breach of a European-brokered ceasefire agreed on Feb. 12, a senior U.S. State Department official said on Tuesday. …read more Source: Channel...
Russia’s Lavrov says EU’s Tusk stoking tension over Ukraine
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused European Council President Donald Tusk and Brussels bureaucrats on Tuesday of stirring up tensions between Moscow and the bloc over the crisis in Ukraine. …read more Source: Channel...
Russia could be ‘single greatest threat’ to Britain: Minister
Russia could pose the “single greatest threat” to Britain, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond warned in a speech Tuesday, while criticising “apologists” for Islamic State (IS) group militant “Jihadi John”.Hammond accused Russian President Vladmir Putin of “subverting” international rules which keep...
Ukraine’s military says eastern rebels using truce to amass arms
Ukraine’s military said on Tuesday pro-Russian rebels were amassing heavy weapons in depots around separatist-held Donetsk city despite a ceasefire deal.Attacks have fallen in the past week, but accusations from both sides of violations show the fragility of the peace deal agreed in Minsk last month, which calls for the withdrawal of heavy...
NATO naval drills start in Black Sea after one-day delay
NATO’s Black Sea members Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey joined four other alliance states in a multinational naval exercise on Tuesday just across the water from the Crimean Peninsula annexed by Russia last year. …read more Source: Channel...
Germany says still far away from a solution to Ukraine
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Tuesday that a solution to the crisis in Ukraine was still a long way off, and that Ukraine will need significant support given the dire state of its economy. …read more Source: Channel...
Abe, Merkel in accord over Ukraine, ISIL
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday agreed to co-operate over a peaceful resolution to the conflict in Ukraine and counterterrorism measures against such insurgents as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.”Japan and Germany agreed to take active roles for realizing peace and stability in...
British foreign minister warns of threat from Russia
Russian actions in Ukraine are undermining the security of nations in Eastern Europe, British foreign minister Philip Hammond is to warn in a speech on Tuesday (Mar 10). …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine says rebels attack near Mariupol, NATO deploys Baltics troops
Ukraine accused pro-Russian separatists on Monday of using mortars and a tank to fire on government positions near the eastern port of Mariupol in clashes that lasted several hours, violating a nearly month-old ceasefire. …read more Source: Channel...
US military unit headed to Baltics for training mission
About 750 U.S. Army tanks, fighting vehicles and other pieces of military equipment arrived in Latvia on Monday as a part of a training mission to reassure NATO allies worried about potential Russian aggression due to the Ukraine crisis, the Pentagon said. …read more Source: Channel...
