Section: The United Kingdom
US will send Ukraine small drones and armoured Humvees, officials say
White House concerned that Russian-backed separatists are violating cease-fire agreements in eastern Ukraine and keeping out international monitorsUS vice president Joe Biden told Ukraine’s president on Wednesday the US will send more aid to the country, which US officials said will include small drones and armored Humvees.The White House...
U.S. slaps sanctions on Ukrainian rebels, Russian bank
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Tuesday placed sanctions on eight Ukrainian separatists and a Russian bank, warning that recent attacks by rebels armed by Russia violated a peace plan in the war-torn country. …read more Source:...
Ukraine expects $5 billion in first tranche of IMF aid: Interfax Ukraine
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko said on Wednesday Ukraine expects the first tranche of aid from the International Monetary Fund to amount to $5 billion, news agency Interfax Ukraine reported. …read more Source:...
Dogs ate bodies in the aftermath of the battle for Debaltseve in Ukraine
Three weeks after one of the fiercest battles in the Ukrainian war, residents of the embattled city of Debaltseve had described how dogs began to eat the corpses of fallen soldiers and citizens as they struggled to bury the dead. …read more Source: The...
Russia declares right to deploy nuclear weapons to Crimea – and may already have done so
Russia has said that it has the right to deploy nuclear weapons to Crimea, a year after Vladimir Putin seized the territory from Ukraine following a referendum. …read more Source: The...
Dogs ate bodies as locals struggled to bury the dead in the aftermath of the battle for Debaltseve
Three weeks after one of the fiercest battles in the Ukrainian war, residents of the embattled city of Debaltseve had described how dogs began to eat the corpses of fallen soldiers and citizens as they struggled to bury the dead. …read more Source: The...
Russia says has right to deploy nuclear weapons in Crimea: report
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has the right to deploy nuclear arms in the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine last year, a Foreign Ministry official said on Wednesday, adding he knew of no plans to do so. …read more Source:...
NATO chief says Russia still equipping Ukraine rebels
MONS, Belgium (Reuters) – NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday that Russia was continuing to arm and train rebel forces in eastern Ukraine and he called on Moscow to respect a ceasefire by withdrawing fully from the conflict. …read more Source:...
Russia struggling to maintain military operations in Ukraine, says report
Report highlighting extent of Kremlin’s involvement in conflict claims scale of continuing involvement is putting strains on Russian militaryLarge-scale intervention in eastern Ukraine by regular Russian troops began last August, reaching a peak of 10,000 in December, and Moscow has been struggling to maintain operations on such a scale and...
Review: Blueprint for Revolution, a fantastically readable and useful handbook for activists
Want to start a revolution? All you need is Tolkien and Monty Python, according to the man behind the Serbian uprisingsI’ve just read the new book by Srjdja Popovic, one of the Serbian protestors who overthrew Slobodan Milosevic and then went on to train protest movements around the world, and it’s brilliant. First prize for...
