Section: The United Kingdom
Russia imposes new import bans in sanctions stand-off
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has extended food import bans to Romania, stepping up its response to more biting Western sanctions for its support for separatist rebels in Ukraine, though Moscow’s measures could be rebounding on its own economy. …read more Source:...
NATO says Russia could be poised to invade Ukraine
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Russia has amassed around 20,000 combat-ready troops on Ukraine’s eastern border and could use the pretext of a humanitarian or peace-keeping mission to invade, NATO said on Wednesday. …read more Source:...
Poland warns of Ukraine invasion threat
Poland’s prime minister has warned the risk of direct intervention by Russia in Ukraine has risen significantly in the past few days …read more Source: Financial...
Crimea ditches Ukrainian mobile network
MTS-Ukraina leaves amid a row over whether it is being forced of the region. …read more Source:...
Polish PM says threat of Russia’s intervention in Ukraine has risen
WARSAW (Reuters) – Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Wednesday that he had reasons to suspect that the threat of a direct intervention by Russia’s military in Ukraine has risen over the last couple of days. …read more Source:...
Ukraine keeps up anti-rebel offensive with nervous eye on Russia
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian government forces, backed by warplanes, kept up a military offensive to claw back lost territory from pro-Russian separatists on Tuesday while casting a nervous eye at Russian military exercises over the border. …read more Source:...
East Ukraine dangers increasing – UN
Civilians in eastern Ukraine are facing increasing danger as the conflict continues, the UN warns, hours after heavy fighting erupted in Donetsk. …read more Source:...
British student ‘forced into slave labour’ in Eastern Ukraine
Mohammed Yahia Abu El Gasim, 21, has now been released after spending two weeks being held captive by pro-Russian rebels …read more Source: The...
The Guardian view on rising tension in Ukraine | Editorial
Is Russia getting ready to intervene in Ukraine with its regular forces, and are there any diplomatic exchanges under way to avert such a disaster?Ukraine is the crisis that wont go away. Once again the warning signs are multiplying, as troop levels on the Russian side of the border rise, military exercises that could overnight turn into the real...
Ukraine’s revolution dream stalling due to war in the east and political stasis
President Yanukovych is long gone, but war-weariness and a sense of politics as usual are fostering whispers of a ‘new Maidan’ Nearly six months after the decisive battles between protesters and police on Kiev’s Independence Square, the charred barricades of burned tyres and twisted metal still stand in memorial to the more than...
