Section: The Guardian (The United Kingdom)
Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama meet at D-day commemorations
Informal conversation lasting 10-15 minutes between US and Russian president is first meeting since Ukraine crisis beganBarack Obama and Vladimir Putin have met for the first time since Russia’s annexation of Crimea. The informal encounter came on the sidelines of a lunch attended by world leaders to mark the 70th anniversary of the D-day...
Guns and fighters seep through Ukraine’s porous Russian border
Combatants engaged in last week’s fighting say walked into the country ‘to visit relatives’ at poorly policed checkpointsIn late April, 65 Russian men in groups of five to 10 crossed the border with Ukraine on foot, telling border guards they were going to visit relatives.It wasn’t a fond babushka who picked them up at the...
Poroshenko vows to punish rebels who shot down Ukraine helicopter
President-elect pledges to do everything to stop further deaths after attack over Slavyansk kills 14, including army generalUkraine’s president-elect, Petro Poroshenko, has vowed to punish pro-Russian rebels who shot down an army helicopter in the east of the country, killing 14 people, including a general, in one of the deadliest attacks...
Ukraine: general reportedly among dead as rebels down helicopter
Kiev escalates effort to retake Donbass region as rebel battalion seizes government building for Donetsk People’s RepublicPro-Russia rebels shot down a Ukrainian military helicopter in Slavyansk with portable surface-to-air missiles on Thursday, killing 14 people including an army general, according to the acting president, Oleksandr...
Ukraine forces brace for fighting with pro-Russian troops at ‘second front’
After crisis concentrated on Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk, cities of Mariupol and Novoazovsk become latest battlegroundsUkrainian forces are digging in around the southern town of Mariupol, bracing for conflict with separatists after pro-Russian units seized a nearby town threatening to open up a second front in the war in the east.A mixture of...
Russian paratroopers: ‘we entered Ukraine by mistake’ video
Nine Russian servicemen say they mistakenly crossed over into Ukraine, after they were captured by Ukrainian security officials almost a week ago. The men tell reporters they were taking part in a military drill and did not know they had entered Ukrainian territory until their arrest. It cannot be confirmed whether the soldiers made statements...
Russia accused of new military incursions into Ukrainian territory
Putin denies discussion of ‘peace plan’, saying Ukraine is ‘not our business’; Russians demand to know are we at war?Ukraine accused Russia of new military incursions into its territory on Wednesday, a day after hours of talks between the two countries’ presidents appeared to yield little in the way of concrete...
Ukrainian and Russian leaders meet in Belarus as fighting continues in eastern Ukraine video
Government and rebel forces continue to exchange fire on Tuesday in the eastern Ukrainian city of Ilovaysk as the Ukrainian and Russian leaders met for talks in Minsk, Belarus. Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, says although peace in Ukraine is an internal matter, Russia will ‘contribute to the creation of an atmosphere of trust’...
Hugh Muirs diary: Is China really bad-mouthing Charles and Camilla?
A tale of intrigue, whispers, red carpets and bad blood China is itching to regain its place in the world. How should America respond? asks a special edition of this weeks Economist. There is also discussion of Chinese motives and ambitions in the Oldie magazine, where the new media columnist Stephen Glover poses an intriguing question: do the...
Briton killed when flight MH17 shot down over Ukraine identified
WHO official Glenn Thomas, one of ten Britons killed in crash, was travelling to Australia to attend international Aids conferenceA British man who died when flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine has been formally identified as Glenn Thomas, a World Health Organisation (WHO) official.The 49-year-old, who was a former BBC journalist, had been...
