Section: The United Kingdom
Nine more Ukrainian servicemen killed in the east
KIEV (Reuters) – Nine Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and 26 wounded in fighting with Russian-back separatists in Ukraine’s eastern regions in the past 24 hours, Kiev military spokesman said on Monday. …read more Source:...
Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Monday 9 Feb 2015
MERKEL IN US FOR TALKS ON UKRAINEGerman chancellor Angela Merkel is in Washington today to share a plan to negotiate peace between Russia and Ukraine, devised by Germany and France, with Barack Obama. Under pressure to get tough, the US is considering sending arms to the Ukraine government but Merkel is known to oppose this. FILES SHOW HSBC...
Vladimir Putin is behaving like a ‘mid 20th century tyrant’ in Ukraine, Philip Hammond warns
Mr Hammond said the Russian President will pay a ‘political and economic price’ for the annexation of Crimea but ruled out Britain offering arms to Ukraine. …read more Source: Daily...
DOMINIC LAWSON: Russian jets in our skies and the folly of cutting defence but splurging on aid
Thousands of Russian troops have invaded Ukraine, Russian agents are accused of poisoning and bombers are flying over Britain. What are we doing about it, asks DOMINIC LAWSON. …read more Source: Daily...
Merkel takes Ukraine plan to Obama
German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives in Washington for talks with President Barack Obama on Monday mid reports of a rift over Ukraine. …read more Source:...
‘Russia’s growing threat’: The West faces a very dangerous crisis – and it’s in part of our own making
The Chinese philosopher Sun Tze said “Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” In the Ukraine crisis, Putin is playing strategy. The West is playing tactics. …read more Source: The...
Leaders scramble to avert ‘dramatic spiral’ in Ukraine
MUNICH (Reuters) – The leaders of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France agreed to meet in Belarus on Wednesday to try to broker a peace deal for Ukraine amid escalating violence there and signs of cracks in the transatlantic consensus on confronting Vladimir Putin. …read more Source:...
Leaders scramble to avert ‘dramatic spiral’ in Ukraine
The leaders of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France agreed to meet in Belarus on Wednesday to try to broker a peace deal for Ukraine amid escalating violence there and signs of cracks in the transatlantic consensus on confronting Vladimir Putin. The four leaders held a call on Sunday, two days after Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President...
‘Russia’s growing threat’: After Ukraine, fears grow that Baltic states could be Vladimir Putin’s next targets
The West must stand up to Russia over Ukraine or Europe could descend into a major war for the first time since 1945, diplomats warned today as efforts to negotiate peace hung by a thread. …read more Source: The...
France not to deliver weapons to Ukraine
France will not for the moment deliver weapons to Ukraine for its fight with pro-Russian separatists, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said yesterday. “We have no intention of delivering weapons at this stage to Ukraine,” Le Drian said at a news conference with Canadian counterpart Robert Nicholson. The United States is reconsidering whether...
