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‘Danger never went away’: Ukrainian cities feel cornered by Russia
Cranes stand idle in Mariupol and Berdyansk as the fear of open warfare risesUkrainians in the industrial cities and resort villages along the coast of the Sea of Azov knew a showdown with Russia was coming. The only question was when.Even before the clash on Sunday in which Russia’s coastguard seized three Ukrainian ships, Moscow had spent...
Ukraine president calls for Nato warships in Sea of Azov
Kiev asks for western presence in sea it shares with Russia, saying Putin is blocking portsThe Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko, has called on Nato to deploy naval ships to the Sea of Azov to “provide security” amid a deepening crisis with Russia.Nato foreign ministers are due to meet next Monday in Brussels and will assess their existing...
Arsenal’s Europa League match in Ukraine to go ahead in Kiev
• Europa League match at Vorskla Poltava switched to Kiev • Uefa confirms game will go ahead after concernsArsenal’s Europa League match against Vorskla Poltava on Thursday will take place at the Olympic Stadium in Kiev.Uefa decided on Tuesday to move the Group E game from Poltava’s Oleksiy Butovsky Stadium – around 185 miles east of...
Putin shrugs off Trump’s threat to cancel G20 meeting over Kerch crisis
Russian leader says Ukraine’s Poroshenko is trying to bolster popularity with Black Sea ‘provocation’Kerch strait Q&A: what happened and why does it matter?Vladimir Putin has shrugged off Donald Trump’s threat to cancel a meeting with him due to Moscow’s seizure of three Ukrainian navy ships, and accused...
Fan’s view: ‘As an Arsenal supporter in Kiev, it feels like business as usual’
As a regular on Arsenal’s European excursions, this may be the oddest trip yet but the locals seem to be carrying on as normalWhen you choose to come on a trip like this, one of the reasons is for it to be a bit of an “I was there” experience, but that wasn’t exactly factoring in the way the situation has developed. When we booked it...
Ukraine-Russia sea clash: Trump cancels Putin talks
The US president scraps a meeting with his Russian counterpart following a rise in tensions off Crimea. …read more Source:...
Trump cancels bilateral talks with Putin at G20
Meeting abruptly scrapped as tensions escalate over Russian seizure of Ukrainian vessels …read more Source: Financial...
Russia’s naval confrontation with Ukraine off Crimea
Russian President Vladimir Putin seeks increased stranglehold over Ukraine …read more Source: Financial...
Explaining the naval clash between Russia and Ukraine
“WE NEED TO fucking fuck them up, fuck…it seems like the president is controlling all this shit,” a Russian commander tells the captain whose ship rammed a Ukrainian military tug-boat in the Kerch Strait while another used live ammunition against a Ukrainian warship. The intercepted conversation, published on YouTube, provides a flavour of what...
Trump cancels meeting with Putin over Russia’s hostilities with Ukraine
President Donald Trump on Thursday cancelled his planned meeting with President Vladimir Putin of Russia, citing the unresolved naval standoff in which Russian forces seized three Ukrainian ships and upending his plans to cement the relationship between the two leaders. …read more Source:...
