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.
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In Ukraine a dark world of hybrid warfare and murky loyalties prevails
Prisoner exchanges have begun and both sides have drawn up timetables for the withdrawal of heavy weaponry. And there is vague talk of constitutional changes. The aftermath of Minsk II, the second attempt at a ceasefire in Ukraine’s bloody civil war, is going more or less as expected. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine crisis: ‘Catastrophic misreading’ of Russia is the result of a Foreign Office denuded of regional experts
A “catastrophic misreading” of the Kremlin’s mood helped precipitate the Ukraine crisis and the dangerous East-West stand-off we see today. This was the central conclusion of a report on EU relations with Russia “before and beyond the crisis in Ukraine”, compiled by the House of Lords European Union Committee. Specifically, the committee...
Ukraine crisis: Fears grow that vital port of Mariupol is Moscow’s next target following Kharkiv blast
Violence in Ukraine spread today as the country’s second biggest city, Kharkiv, was struck by a bomb attack that killed at least two people. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine peace march rocked by deadly explosion reported in government-controlled Kharkiv
At least one person has been killed in an explosion during a peace march in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine peace march rocked by deadly explosion reported in Kharkiv
At least two people have been killed in an explosion during a peace march in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine crisis: John Kerry claims Russia is ‘brazenly’ violating ceasefire
The US Secretary of State, John Kerry, accused Russia yesterday of brazenly and cynically violating a European-brokered truce in eastern Ukraine, and warned that the US was preparing further sanctions against the Putin regime. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine crisis: ‘One miscalculation, and Britain faces an existential threat to our whole being…’
The West faces a new and dangerous era of “constant competition” with Russia that carries a possible “existential threat to our whole being”, Britain’s most senior commander in Nato has warned. …read more Source: The...
Greek bailout: An exile’s view: I’m still terrified of a Grexit
Being Greek in the years of the crisis is not only hard: it’s excruciating. Of course, it can’t compare to being Ukrainian or Syrian, or to being from a war-torn country, but it’s still quite bad. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine crisis: ‘One miscalculation, and Britain faces an existential threat to our whole being…’
The West faces a new and dangerous era of “constant competition” with Russia that carries a possible “existential threat to our whole being”, Britain’s most senior commander in Nato has warned. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine crisis: A young mother from Debaltseve’s first-hand account of surviving in a basement with 25 other people during shelling
Alyona, 24, is from Debaltseve, a heavily contested city on the frontline of the Ukrainian conflict. When fighting intensified in January, Alyona, her husband and two-year old son Gleb, stayed in the basement, but eventually the situation became unbearable and they fled the city on 29 January. As of 13 February, they were staying in a sanatorium...
