Section: The Guardian (The United Kingdom)
MH17: body of second British football fan identified
Newcastle United fan John Alder died on board plane flying over Ukraine while travelling to New ZealandThe body of a second British football fan who was killed when a Malaysia Airlines jet was shot down over Ukraine has been identified, the Foreign Office has said.The Newcastle United fan John Alder, 63, was among the 298 people on board flight...
The Guardian view on new Russian incursions into Ukraine | Editorial
Lies and deception have characterised Russias intervention in Ukraine but the new incursions are less deniableListening to Vladimir Putin, at a press conference earlier this year, solemnly deny that Russian troops had occupied parts of Crimea, the novelist Andrey Kurkov noted tersely in his diary: He lies easily, uses humour. From the beginning...
Nato faces critical test of credibility
Summit agenda ranges from red lines for Russia to defence expenditure, but don’t expect too muchLeaders of the world’s most powerful military alliance will be severely tested at next week’s Nato summit in Wales.Nato troops are being brought home from Afghanistan after nearly a decade fighting a war they could not win. Defence...
Ten things we learned this week
From sexual abuse on a grand scale in Rotherham to a Bake Off meltdown, a roundup of the weeks news … …read more Source: The...
Russian nationalism and the logic of the Kremlin’s actions on Ukraine
Analysis: Putins motivations are best understood by looking at the political pressures he faces at home, writes Henry E HaleIt is not very productive to interpret the current international situation as a new cold war or to see Russias Vladimir Putin as a Russian Hitler bent on reconstituting the USSR at all costs.The cold war was driven in...
Russia has up to 100 battle tanks fighting in Ukraine, UK believes
Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant tells UN there are more than 1,000 Russian troops helping separatists in eastern UkraineBritain believes that nearly 180 Russian battle tanks or armoured personnel carriers are deployed with Ukrainian separatists in the east of the country, supported by more than 1,000 regular Russian troops.Government sources have...
Putin likens Ukraine’s forces to Nazis and threatens standoff in the Arctic
Russian president hits back at invasion accusations as Nato accuses Kremlin of ‘blatant violation’ of Ukraine’s sovereigntyThe Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has hit back at accusations that he has effectively invaded Ukraine, accusing Ukrainian forces of behaving like Nazis in the conflict in the east and ominously...
Ukrainian rebel leader agrees to ‘humanitarian corridor’ for government troops video
Rebel leader Alexander Zakharchenko says he has agreed to a request from Vladimir Putin to create a ‘humanitarian corridor’ for the surrounded government troops in eastern Ukraine. The leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic says Ukrainian forces must abandon their armoured vehicles and ammunition to be allowed...
No one knows what Putins up to, but sanctions are the wests biggest mistake | Angus Roxburgh
The outcome of the coming weeks deliberations is predictable, but the result could be the partition of UkraineEuropean Union leaders meet in Brussels on Saturday, and Nato heads of government in Wales next week, to formulate fresh responses to the dangerously escalating crisis in Ukraine. Their language will be pugilistic, but in truth Vladimir...
Tony Abbott condemns Russia over accusations its troops entered Ukraine – video
Tony Abbott has branded Russia’s latest actions in Ukraine an invasion and says they are ‘completely, absolutely and utterly unacceptable’. But the prime minister says Australia cannot make a unilateral decision to exclude the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, from the G20 leaders’ summit in Brisbane in November. NATO...
