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After marathon talks, a peace deal to end the 10-month war in eastern Ukraine — but will it take hold?
MINSK, Belarus — Leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany on Thursday emerged from marathon 16-hour talks to announce a comprehensive peace deal for eastern Ukraine, but questions remained whether Ukraine and the pro-Russian rebels have agreed on all of its terms. Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters that the agreement envisages...
Gary Clement on the Ukraine crisis
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Death toll rises to 19 and 78 wounded in day of fighting in Ukraine before peace talks begin in Belarus
Fighting raged in eastern Ukraine Wednesday, killing five people at a bus station in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk, as Western leaders confirmed that they would take part in peace talks later in the day. Steffen Seibert, a spokesman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel, said she and French President Francois Hollande would travel to the...
Won’t arm Ukraine until peace process finishes, Obama says after meeting with Merkel
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Barack Obama wants peace negotiations with Russia to run their course before deciding to send “lethal defensive” arms to help Kyiv against the recent attacks by Russian-supplied separatists in eastern Ukraine. “The possibility of lethal defensive weapons is one of those options that’s being examined,” he said at...
John McCain compares peace talks with Putin to appeasement of Hitler: ‘Dictators will always take more’
A deepening dispute between Europe and the United States threatened to derail efforts to bring peace to Ukraine Sunday, even as it was announced that Vladimir Putin and Petro Poroshenko, the Ukrainian president, will talk face-to-face at a new summit in Minsk on Wednesday. The meeting, which will include Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande, was...
Kelly McParland: Harper’s challenge is to avoid catastrophe as Putin pulls Europe over a cliff
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is to meet with President Barack Obama today to discuss the re-escalating crisis in the Ukraine. She is then expected to fly to Ottawa to brief Prime Minister Stephen Harper. It is tempting to portray the West’s confrontation with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin over Ukraine as a clash of global...
National Post View: If Putin is to be stopped, Ukraine must be armed
In recent days, the situation in Central Europe has moved from disturbing to alarming. Vladimir Putin, undeterred by Western sanctions, is escalating his country’s incremental invasion of Ukraine. When fighting first began last year, the Russians at least pretended to have no direct control over the heavily armed, well trained and...
Germany’s Angela Merkel to meet with Harper, Obama over Ukraine crisis amid reports of rift
OTTAWA — Angela Merkel travels to Ottawa Monday night for a brief meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper, as the German Chancellor continues her transatlantic shuttle diplomacy on the Ukraine crisis. The German leader will travel to Ottawa from Washington, where she has a previously scheduled meeting with President Barack Obama, amid reports...
Is Vladimir Putin a brilliant strategist, tactician, or mad? West must figure out Russia’s endgame
Analysis At a recent conference held in the Baltic states, one word dominated the agenda: Putin. They could have discussed Russia and its foreign policy more generally, but all routes lead to a president whose 15 years in power have left him in total charge. Amid increased fears of all-out war in Ukraine, governments and policy-makers around...
Ukraine president holds two mitts full of Russian passports and military IDs dropped by soldiers
MUNICH — Ukraine’s president pushed Saturday for a quick cease-fire in his country’s troubled east, insisting that the conflict must be resolved and not “frozen,” and pressed Kyiv’s case to be supplied with defensive weapons. Petro Poroshenko spoke amid a hectic flurry of diplomacy. Hours earlier, German Chancellor Angela Merkel...
