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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 bilateral talks with Putin at G20
Meeting abruptly scrapped as tensions escalate over Russian seizure of Ukrainian vessels …read more Source: Financial...
Why are Russian forces attacking Ukraine in the Sea of Azov?
The political trap was intended to polarise Ukrainian society around the best ways to handle Russian aggression. The Azov Sea has coastlines on Ukraine, Russia and Ukrainian-but-Russian-occupied Crimea, the latter of which it is divided from the Black Sea by. Last weekend, Russian military forces fired on and captured three Ukrainian naval...
Russia’s naval confrontation with Ukraine off Crimea
Russian President Vladimir Putin seeks increased stranglehold over Ukraine …read more Source: Financial...
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 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:...
‘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...
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...
Trump cancels Putin meeting over Russia-Ukraine dispute
Trump tweeted his decision after departing Washington for a world leader summit in Argentina, where he and Vladimir Putin were to meet. …read more Source:...
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...
