Section: The United Kingdom
VIDEO: On patrol with Kiev’s new police
Bridget Kendall joins members of the new Kiev police force out on patrol. …read more Source:...
U.N. alarmed after ordered out of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations humanitarian aid chief Stephen O’Brien voiced serious concern on Thursday that authorities in Luhansk in eastern Ukraine are demanding that all U.N. agencies immediately vacate the city. …read more Source:...
Obama and Putin to meet; Syria and Ukraine vie for attention
WASHINGTON/MOSCOW (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet in New York next week at a time of high tension in Europe and the Middle East, but the Kremlin and the White House disagreed on Thursday over the top priority for the talks. …read more Source:...
Obama to meet with Vladimir Putin at UN general assembly next week
‘Top agenda items’ for meeting between US and Russian presidents include Ukraine conflict and apparent military buildup in Syria, press secretary saidPresident Barack Obama will meet the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, on the sidelines of the UN general assembly in New York next week, the White House confirmed on Thursday.The “top agenda...
Ukraine’s new military doctrine names Russia as main aggressor
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed a new military doctrine on Thursday naming Russia as the main military threat to Ukraine, according to a statement on the presidential website. …read more Source:...
Ukraine’s new military doctrine names Russia as main aggressor
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed a new military doctrine on Thursday naming Russia as the main military threat to Ukraine, according to a statement on the presidential website. …read more Source:...
Obama And Putin Set For UN Showdown
The US President will discuss “profound differences” over Ukraine and Syria with his Russian counterpart, say US officials. …read more Source: Sky...
Russian lawmaker who stood up to Kremlin is stripped of his post
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian provincial lawmaker who, in a rare show of defiance, accused the Kremlin of lying about whether it sent its forces to fight in Ukraine was stripped of his seat in the local parliament on Thursday. …read more Source:...
Mr Saakashvili goes to Odessa
IN THE spring of 2014, as the war in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region was breaking out, deadly clashes wracked the elegant port city of Odessa. On May 2nd pro-Russian separatists shot at pro-Ukrainian demonstrators from behind police lines. The riot ended in a fire that killed 46 separatists. The city has been largely quiet ever since. Yet...
‘We’re preventing a third world war’: the foreigners fighting for Donbass
Eastern Ukraine has become a hub for those who believe the Russia-backed rebels are the last line of defence against fascism Russell Bentley arrived in Donbass in December last year, convinced that the future of humanity depended on the Russia-backed rebels defeating the Ukrainian army – whom he describes as “CIA-backed Nazi scum”. “This is the...
