Section: Stabroek News (Guyana)
Top NATO commander questions Russian intentions toward Moldova
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – NATO’s top military commander said yesterday that Russia appeared to be following some of the same “hybrid warfare” script in dealing with the former Soviet republic of Moldova that it used before annexing Crimea and intervening in eastern Ukraine. Moscow intervened in Ukraine amid growing unrest by pro-Russian...
Ukraine PM slams Putin, ceasefire again under strain in east Ukraine
KIEV/DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – Fighting flared near an airport in eastern Ukraine yesterday in breach of a fragile eight-day ceasefire as the prime minister accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of planning to destroy his country. Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said only membership of NATO would enable Ukraine to defend itself from...
Putin trying to destroy Ukraine, says its PM
KIEV, (Reuters) – Ukraine’s prime minister said today Russian President Vladimir Putin aimed to destroy Ukraine as an independent country and said only NATO could defend the ex-Soviet republic from external aggression. Kiev and its Western backers accuse Moscow of sending troops and tanks into eastern Ukraine in support of pro-Russian...
China’s Xi repeats calls for political solution for Ukraine
BEIJING, (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping has repeated a call for the crisis in Ukraine to be resolved politically via an inclusive dialogue, during talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, China’s Foreign Ministry said. “China stands for resolving the Ukraine crisis through political means, and calls on all parties in...
Ukraine president visits frontline city amid ‘shaky’ ceasefire
MARIUPOL/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko visited the eastern port of Mariupol yesterday and promised to deal a “crushing defeat” to pro-Russian rebels massed on the edge of town if they tried to advance in violation of a ceasefire agreement. “I have ordered (the military) to secure the defence of Mariupol with...
Ceasefire in east Ukraine frays, woman killed by shelling
DONETSK/MARIUPOL, Ukraine, (Reuters) – A woman died and at least four people were wounded when fighting flared again in eastern Ukraine overnight into yesterday, jeopardising a ceasefire struck less than two days earlier between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists. The accord, brokered by envoys from Ukraine, the...
Artillery attack challenges ceasefire in east Ukraine
MARIUPOL, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukrainian government forces came under artillery fire late on Saturday near the strategic port of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine, in the first serious violation of a ceasefire declared only about 30 hours earlier. The presidents of Russia and Ukraine had earlier said the ceasefire, part of a peace road-map intended to...
Ukraine, pro-Russian rebels reach ceasefire deal
MINSK, (Reuters) – Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels reached a ceasefire agreement yesterday, the first step toward ending fighting in eastern Ukraine that has caused the worst standoff between Moscow and the West since the Cold War ended. The ceasefire deal was struck in the Belarussian capital Minsk along with a deal allowing for prisoner...
Ukraine and rebels back peace plan, ceasefire from today
NEWPORT, Wales/DONETSK, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and the main pro-Russian rebel leader said they would both order ceasefires on Friday, provided that an agreement is signed on a new peace plan to end the five-month war in Ukraine’s east. The breakthrough came after a week in which the pro-Moscow...
NATO chief, at summit, says Russia attacking Ukraine
NEWPORT, Wales, (Reuters) – NATO’s top official accused Moscow outright today of attacking Ukraine as allied leaders gathered for a summit to buttress support for Kiev and bolster defences against a Russia they now see as hostile for the first time since the Cold War. U.S. President Barack Obama and his 27 allies meeting at […] …read...
