Section: The United Kingdom
Nato expansion and the Ukraine conflict | Letters
Seumas Milne’s commentary on the situation in Ukraine (The demonisation of Russia risks paving the way for war, 5 March) contains errors in historical fact and in political judgment. Incidentally, these errors are also a regular feature of Russian statements, which Nato totally rejects. Nato has never been guilty of “military expansionism”,...
Polish MPs offered military training
Parliamentarians in Poland will be offered military training because of fears that the war in Ukraine could spread to neighbouring countries. …read more Source:...
Ukraine crisis: Mariupol a city on the edge as residents anticipate invasion by Russian-backed forces once the fragile ceasefire ends
The Azovstal steelworks cast imposing shadows over the two dozen fishermen attempting to catch mullet from the sulphurous Kalmus river below. It would be another unexceptional post-Soviet apocalyptic scene, perhaps, were it not for the fact that the city is Mariupol, and that a few metres down from the fishermen stand four soldiers. They are on...
Ukraine ‘hero’ battles on in Moscow cell
Imprisoned female pilot weak from hunger strike but still defiant …read more Source: Financial...
Ukraine’s coal pits: dangerous in peace time, deadlier in war
DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ivan Lazarenko, one of those pulled out alive after an explosion at a mine near the frontline in rebel-held east Ukraine killed 33 workers, lay in hospital on Thursday, still unconscious and in bandages. …read more Source:...
EU extends Yanukovich asset freeze, drops sanctions on some allies
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union said on Thursday it had extended a freeze on the assets of ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich and 17 others suspected of stealing from the Ukrainian state. …read more Source:...
Ukraine’s former finance minister is arrested near Valencia over £6m ’embezzlement’
Ukraine’s former finance minister, Yuri Kolobov, has become the first member of the former, pro-Russian, government in Kiev to be arrested after he was detained by Spanish police near Valencia. …read more Source: The...
Exclusive: Scribbled note shows Nemtsov on trail of Russian deaths in Ukraine
MOSCOW (Reuters) – It may have been the last note Boris Nemtsov ever wrote, a hurried scrawl in blue pen on a plain white sheet of A4 paper. …read more Source:...
On the border
NARVA, an Estonian town on the Russian border, is tired of hearing it is next. “There simply couldn’t be a repeat of Crimea here,” says Vladislav Ponjatovsky, head of a local trade union. Mr Ponjatovsky, an ethnic Russian, helped launch a Narva autonomy referendum in 1993. Now he would never consider it. Today’s Estonia offers higher...
Nemtsov murder: what will the UK do next?
Protestors march with posters reading “propaganda kills, fight!” near the place where Boris Nemtsov was gunned down on Friday. ©Denis Tyrin/AP/Press Association Images Government thinking on what to do about Ukraine has got much darker in just a few weeks, and not only because of the murder of dissident Boris Nemtsov in Moscow last Friday. Three...
