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      Ukrainian president makes emotional plea to Congress for greater military aid
      Sep18

      Ukrainian president makes emotional plea to Congress for greater military aid

      Petro Poroshenko asks US to authorise military equipment for Ukrainian forces, and says one cannot win the war with blanketsUkrainian president Petro Poroshenko called on the US to provide his forces with military weapons to fight Russia, in an emotional appeal to a joint session of Congress in which he claimed the world was on the edge of a new...

      Watch: civilians flee shelling in Donetsk
      Sep18

      Watch: civilians flee shelling in Donetsk

      Dramatic first-person footage shows civilians running for safety from a shower of weapons in eastern Ukraine …read more Source: The...

      [Ticker] Russia says EU-Ukraine trade deal to be ‘modified’
      Sep18

      [Ticker] Russia says EU-Ukraine trade deal to be ‘modified’

      The Russian foreign ministry said Thursday it “hopes” the EU and Ukraine will before 2016 honour its complaints by “modifying” the free trade treaty ratified this week. It said that instead of EU free trade with eastern partners, there should be a single free trade area in “Greater Europe”. …read more...

      Charlemagne: Europe’s ring of fire
      Sep18

      Charlemagne: Europe’s ring of fire

      IT SEEMS safe to assume that Johnny Cash, born in Arkansas in 1932, gave little thought to European foreign policy. Yet one of the Man in Black’s better-known numbers sums up the European Union’s troubles with its neighbours. “Love is a burning thing,” he sang in “Ring of Fire”, a hit in 1963, “and it makes a fiery ring. Bound by wild...

      Ukraine and Russia: Win some, lose more
      Sep18

      Ukraine and Russia: Win some, lose more

      HISTORIANS will struggle to put dates on Russia’s murky war against Ukraine. It had no official start and no formal end. Russia never admitted that it was in the conflict, which it fanned and fought both directly and through proxies, so has not celebrated victory as it did after the annexation of Crimea. Ukraine never formally declared...

      Agent Plus: “Serbian pirates attack Ukrainian ships on the Danube”
      Sep18

      Agent Plus: “Serbian pirates attack Ukrainian ships on the Danube”

      BELGRADE – Boats of the “Ukrainian Danube shipping company” (UDP) was robbed by “pirates” twice in September during their stay in the Port …read more Source:...

      Poland Sets Up Military Unit With Ukraine
      Sep18

      Poland Sets Up Military Unit With Ukraine

      Poland has said it is establishing a joint military unit with Ukraine and Lithuania to be based in the east of the country. …read more Source: Sky...

      Truce may give Ukraine leader respite
      Sep18

      Truce may give Ukraine leader respite

      Ukraine’s president clings to tenuous truce …read more Source:...

      Greens quit Finnish government in nuclear row
      Sep18

      Greens quit Finnish government in nuclear row

      The Green League today (18 September) quit the five-party Finnish coalition government in protest at a decision to build a nuclear power plant in the north of the country. Nuclear power company Fennovoima’s application to build the country’s fifth nuclear power plant was approved in 2010 but changes in the firm’s plans needed to...

      Kiev says Russia has “4,000 soldiers” at border
      Sep18

      Kiev says Russia has “4,000 soldiers” at border

      The Ukrainian government has announced that Russia amassed about 4,000 troops stationed in Crimea, on the border with Ukraine.”According to our information, almost all military units of the Russian Federation stationed in the north of occupied Crimea… have been transferred to the administrative border with Ukraine, as well as...