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Ukraine video ‘of Russian tank in Novoazovsk’
A video posted by the Ukrainian security council purports to show a Russian tank in the eastern city of Novoazovsk. The video comes after Ukraine’s defence council said Novoazovsk and other south-eastern parts of the country have come under the control of Russian forces. Ukrainian spokesman for the defence council says the situation in the...
Nato satellite images of Russian military build-up in and near Ukraine
Evidence grows of Moscow’s direct military intervention in its neighbour …read more Source: Financial...
Ukraine and Russia: War, not peace
THE war in Ukraine is intensifying, as Russia’s incursions into the east of the country become ever more brazen. On August 27th a column of Russian troops and equipment crossed the Russia-Ukraine border in the far south, at Novoazovsk, in an apparent attempt to open a new front outside the rebel-held areas and closer to Crimea....
Germany’s economy: Watching the wages
BLAMING Germany—or at least the austerity prescribed for the euro zone by Chancellor Angela Merkel—for Europe’s ills may be popular in France. But Germans are inclined, not without some pride, to see their economy as the strongest horse to pull the euro zone out of its misery. Hence the fear caused by a surprising update this month: real...
Russian military troops ‘have been brought into Ukraine’, warns Poroshenko
The Ukrainian President says Russian military troops have “actually been brought into the country”, as a rebel leader claimed thousands of Russian citizens and soldiers are fighting in Ukraine. …read more Source: The...
Ukrainian president: Russian troops have crossed border
Petro Poroshenko cancels planned trip abroad as he in effect accuses Russia of invasion Ukraine’s president has effectively accused Russia of invading his country, saying troops have been moved across the border to support separatists now fighting on two fronts in the east.”Recent Russian actions clearly demonstrate that Moscow is...
Canada’s delegation to Nato mocks Russia with Ukraine geography lesson
Twitter post labelling Russia and Not Russia pokes fun at claims that Moscows troops did not realise they had entered Ukraine, but forgets to mark KaliningradIn the latest salvo in the propaganda war over Ukraine, Canada at Nato (@CanadaNATO) has posted a tweet poking fun at Russia. In its labelling of Russia and Not Russia, the tweet refers to...
Ukrainian rebel leader: Russian soldiers are fighting among us – video
The prime minister of rebel group the Donetsk People’s Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko, says serving Russian soldiers are fighting among rebel forces in Ukraine. The separatist leader says claims of a Russian invasion in eastern Ukraine are an attempt to justify the defeats of the Ukrainian army … …read more Source: The...
Parents’ anguish over captured soldiers lays bare Russia’s covert war in Ukraine
Families of paratroopers plead for Kremlin to return their sons, saying they were led into trouble ‘like blind mice’ …read more Source: The...
Distraught Russian families appeal for captured soldiers’ return from Ukraine
Russian mothers of soldiers captured in Ukraine express anger about Russian authorities neglecting their sons’ fate …read more Source: The...
