Section: The Independent (The United Kingdom)
The Independent is a UK national daily newspaper. It was founded in 1986. Its
headquater is in London, UK. The owner of The Independent is Russian
businessman Alexander Lebedev. News about Ukraine are usually Additional
reporting by Associated Press, Reuters.
The official website is The Independent
Vladimir Putin says Russia was preparing to use nuclear weapons ‘if necessary’ and blames US for Ukraine crisis in Crimea documentary
Vladimir Putin has said Russia was so fearful of attack at the height of the Ukraine crisis that it was preparing to arm its nuclear weapons, in extraordinary claims aired on state TV on Sunday night. …read more Source: The...
Oligarchs at war: Claims of murder among Ukrainian billionaires in High Court case
Some of the most extraordinary allegations of violence, murder and corruption ever seen in a London commercial legal dispute have emerged in High Court documents. …read more Source: The...
UK’s nuclear weapons data and other sensitive internet traffic accidentally sent through Ukraine
Internet data from the UK’s Atomic Weapons Establishment and other sensitive information was being sent through Ukraine, by mistake, all last week. …read more Source: The...
Vladimir Putin health fears: Kremlin denies rumours President is ill after he cancels second meeting in two days
Russian officials have denied reports that Vladimir Putin has fallen ill after the cancellation of two state events, but admitted the president’s schedule due to the Ukraine crisis was “very intensive”. …read more Source: The...
Dogs ate bodies in the aftermath of the battle for Debaltseve in Ukraine
Three weeks after one of the fiercest battles in the Ukrainian war, residents of the embattled city of Debaltseve had described how dogs began to eat the corpses of fallen soldiers and citizens as they struggled to bury the dead. …read more Source: The...
Russia declares right to deploy nuclear weapons to Crimea – and may already have done so
Russia has said that it has the right to deploy nuclear weapons to Crimea, a year after Vladimir Putin seized the territory from Ukraine following a referendum. …read more Source: The...
Dogs ate bodies as locals struggled to bury the dead in the aftermath of the battle for Debaltseve
Three weeks after one of the fiercest battles in the Ukrainian war, residents of the embattled city of Debaltseve had described how dogs began to eat the corpses of fallen soldiers and citizens as they struggled to bury the dead. …read more Source: The...
Vladimir Putin says he only ordered the annexation of Crimea to Russia because an ‘unofficial survey’ told him to do so
Vladimir Putin has claimed that the decision to annex Crimea to the Russian Federation was only made after officials carried out an “unofficial survey” of the people living there. …read more Source: The...
Putin reveals the moment he ordered the plot to take control of Crimea
Vladimir Putin has revealed the moment that he ordered his security officials to start work on a plot to annex Crimea from Ukraine. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine crisis: Mariupol a city on the edge as residents anticipate invasion by Russian-backed forces once the fragile ceasefire ends
The Azovstal steelworks cast imposing shadows over the two dozen fishermen attempting to catch mullet from the sulphurous Kalmus river below. It would be another unexceptional post-Soviet apocalyptic scene, perhaps, were it not for the fact that the city is Mariupol, and that a few metres down from the fishermen stand four soldiers. They are on...
