Section: The United Kingdom
US tanks in Baltics as drills start
Hundreds of US military vehicles arrive in the Baltic states and are to stay in Europe, to reassure Nato allies unsettled by Russia’s actions in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
How many Russians are fighting in Ukraine?
How deeply involved is Moscow in the conflict in the east? …read more Source:...
Ukraine’s military says eastern rebels using truce to amass arms
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s military said on Tuesday pro-Russian rebels were amassing heavy weapons in depots around separatist-held Donetsk city despite a ceasefire deal. …read more Source:...
NATO naval drills start in Black Sea after one-day delay
SOFIA (Reuters) – NATO’s Black Sea members Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey joined four other alliance states in a multinational naval exercise on Tuesday just across the water from the Crimean Peninsula annexed by Russia last year. …read more Source:...
Pro-Russia fighters have withdrawn weapons, says Ukraine president
‘Russian-backed fighters have withdrawn significant amount’ of weaponry from frontline in east of country, says Petro Poroshenko The Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko, says pro-Russia rebels have withdrawn a significant amount of weaponry from the frontlines in eastern Ukraine, three weeks after a ceasefire deal was struck.Attacks have...
Frontline Ukraine: ‘How Europe failed to slay the demons of war’
In an extract from his new book, historian Richard Sakwa argues that the current conflict has its roots in the exclusion of Russia from genuine partnerships since the end of the cold war In 2014, history returned to Europe with a vengeance. The crisis over Ukraine brought back not only the spectre but the reality of war, on the 100th anniversary...
Germany says still far away from a solution to Ukraine
SOFIA (Reuters) – German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Tuesday that a solution to the crisis in Ukraine was still a long way off, and that Ukraine will need significant support given the dire state of its economy. …read more Source:...
Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Tuesday 10 Mar 2015
HUNDREDS OF SEX OFFENDERS MISSING Almost 400 registered sex offenders, who are supposed to be monitored by police, are missing across the UK, according to information published under a Freedom of Information request. One convicted sex offender in Gloucestershire has been missing since 2000, while another in Northumbria disappeared in May 2002....
Opera and tanks on east Ukraine’s frontline
Few in eastern Ukraine believe a fragile ceasefire will hold …read more Source:...
VIDEO: Ukraine rebel pullback ‘significant’
The Ukrainian president confirms that pro-Russian rebels in the east have withdrawn a “significant” amount of heavy weapons under a ceasefire plan. …read more Source:...
