Section: The United Kingdom
Putin ‘privately threatened to invade Poland, Romania and the Baltic states’
German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung reports that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told European Commission that Putin made the threat in a recent conversation …read more Source: The...
Poroshenko urges US to arm Ukraine
Ukraine president receives standing ovations for speech in which he warned non-lethal aid is not enough to turn tide in Kiev’s battle with rebels …read more Source: Financial...
Ukrainian president makes emotional plea to Congress for greater military aid
Petro Poroshenko asks US to authorise military equipment for Ukrainian forces, and says one cannot win the war with blanketsUkrainian president Petro Poroshenko called on the US to provide his forces with military weapons to fight Russia, in an emotional appeal to a joint session of Congress in which he claimed the world was on the edge of a new...
Watch: civilians flee shelling in Donetsk
Dramatic first-person footage shows civilians running for safety from a shower of weapons in eastern Ukraine …read more Source: The...
Charlemagne: Europe’s ring of fire
IT SEEMS safe to assume that Johnny Cash, born in Arkansas in 1932, gave little thought to European foreign policy. Yet one of the Man in Black’s better-known numbers sums up the European Union’s troubles with its neighbours. “Love is a burning thing,” he sang in “Ring of Fire”, a hit in 1963, “and it makes a fiery ring. Bound by wild...
Ukraine and Russia: Win some, lose more
HISTORIANS will struggle to put dates on Russia’s murky war against Ukraine. It had no official start and no formal end. Russia never admitted that it was in the conflict, which it fanned and fought both directly and through proxies, so has not celebrated victory as it did after the annexation of Crimea. Ukraine never formally declared...
Poland Sets Up Military Unit With Ukraine
Poland has said it is establishing a joint military unit with Ukraine and Lithuania to be based in the east of the country. …read more Source: Sky...
Truce may give Ukraine leader respite
Ukraine’s president clings to tenuous truce …read more Source:...
Ukraine crisis: BBC issues Russia with ‘formal complaint’ after news team is beaten up on eastern Ukraine border
The BBC has formally complained to the Russian authorities after a news team was beaten and a camera destroyed in an assault by “unidentified men” on the Russia/Ukraine border. …read more Source: The...
Russia, Ukraine and Europe have been into Vladimir Putin’s black hole of fear
The formula for saving any dictatorship is universal: create an enemy, start a war. We are back in Soviet times of total lies -I remember that as a child I read about black holes in a popular science magazine about space and it scared me. The idea of our world being sucked into these breaks in the universe kept bothering me until I realised that...
