Section: The United Kingdom
Fragment from MH17 crash site supports missile theory: Dutch TV
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – A metal fragment from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 matches a surface-to-air BUK rocket, a Dutch broadcaster said on Thursday, supporting a theory that the plane was downed by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Aux armes, journalistes!
WHEN Russia was preparing to annex Crimea a year ago its television broadcasts, portraying the protesters who had recently overthrown Ukraine’s regime as a neo-Nazi rabble, softened the peninsula’s defences as effectively as any artillery assault. One month later, when Russian-backed rebels overran Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine, one of...
Quitting dreams, chasing dreams
ONLY a few years ago, politicians in the European Union, and in the poor and war-ravaged countries in the continent’s south-east, felt that between them they were creating a virtuous circle. With EU help, poor Balkan lands would improve their governance and streamline their economies; in due course they would be rewarded with EU entry....
Volunteer brigades, with kit supplied by families, bridge Ukraine’s military gaps
British and US training for Kiev’s army – where the supply chain is notoriously corrupt – is desperately needed Igor Kuzyo, a nightclub bouncer from Lviv, received a draft notice last summer. But rather than join the Ukrainian army, he travelled east and signed up with a volunteer battalion. At least 30 of these loosely regulated brigades...
VIDEO: ‘Please help us defend our country’
Ukraine PM Arseniy Yatsenyuk says he welcomes British assistance training Ukrainian soldiers but that he needs more help from the EU to defend his country. …read more Source:...
EU likely to keep Russia sanctions after Merkel weighs in
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union leaders look likely to keep economic sanctions on Russia in place until a Ukraine ceasefire deal is fully working, after German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday it would be wrong to ease pressure on Moscow prematurely. …read more Source:...
Ukraine and energy strain regional ties
Clashing political and economic desires are usurping historical and geographical ties in central Europe …read more Source: Financial...
Civilian life slowly returns to Donetsk – in pictures
Under a fragile ceasefire between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists the residents of Donetsk are slowing trying to resume their lives. Photographer Max Avdeev, who’s been in the city through the fighting, documented the return for Meduza … …read more Source: The...
British military trainers arrive in Ukraine to help in fight against pro-Russian rebels
British military trainers are now in Ukraine to help those fighting pro-Russian rebels. …read more Source: London Evening...
EU won’t lift sanctions on Russia until Minsk conditions met: Merkel
BERLIN (Reuters) – Europe will not lift sanctions on Russia imposed over the Ukraine crisis until the conditions of the Minsk ceasefire deal have been met, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday before EU leaders discuss the issue at a summit in Brussels. …read more Source:...
