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Ukraine president calls on allies to boycott 2018 World Cup in Russia
• Petro Poroshenko urges action amid continued occupation of Ukraine territory• ‘I think a World Cup in that country is unthinkable,’ says Poroshenko• Shakhtar’s ‘refugees’ provide escapism in war-torn Ukraine• Fifa apologises for video showing Crimea as port of RussiaUkraine’s president, Petro Poroshenko, has urged his...
EU concern over military build up in the Crimea
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Austrian minister says Minsk accord best chance to solve Ukraine crisis
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The Minsk agreement to end fighting in eastern Ukraine is the biggest chance to solve Ukraine crisis peacefully and European leaders should not declare it has failed, Austria’s foreign minister said on Monday. …read more Source:...
Putin’s nuclear threat: Russian leader nearly started World War Three over the Crimea war
VLADIMIR Putin was prepared to use nuclear weapons at the moment he seized Crimea a year ago, he admitted last night. …read more Source:...
Vladimir Putin mulled putting nuclear forces ‘on alert’ over Crimea
New documentary shows Russian President was personally involved step-by-step in the events that were seen by the West as an illegal occupation …read more Source: The...
Crimea has left Ukraine ‘for good’
Crimea’s prime minister tells the BBC the territory has returned to its historical Russian homeland and will never again be part of Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Vladimir Putin says he’s ‘ready to put forces on nuclear alert’ in interview recorded before his last public appearance 10 days ago
Vladimir Putin has admitted that he was ready to place his nuclear attack forces on alert when he seized Crimea a year ago. …read more Source: Daily...
The superpowers are battling to be the biggest hypocrite
Strange, isn’t it, how every time we have a “crisis” in the Middle East, the Russians step in to take advantage of it? Or so it looks. No sooner have we identified Isis/the Islamic Caliphate/Daesh as the most apocalyptic, end-of-the-world antagonist since Hitler/Napoleon/Nero/Genghis Khan, than old Mother Russia stretches out her...
Ukraine conflict: Putin ‘was ready for nuclear alert’
Russian president says he was ready to put Russia’s nuclear weapons on alert during tensions over crisis in Crimea and UkraineMoscow was ready to put its nuclear forces on alert to ensure Russia’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine last year, Russian president, Vladimir Putin, said in a pre-recorded documentary aired on Sunday. Putin...
Ukraine’s president: Truce not working
Ukraine’s president accused Russian-backed separatists in the east of failing to respect a ceasefire with Ukrainian troops and called for further sanctions on Russia in comments to a German newspaper expected to be published today. Attacks have become less frequent since the latest ceasefire came into force in mid-February, but both sides...
