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Shelling moves closer to Ukrainian port hours before peace talks
MARIUPOL, Ukraine — Shelling resounded on the outskirts of a Ukrainian port city Friday as Russian-backed rebels pressed their offensive in the strategically key southeast just hours ahead of talks that are widely hoped to bring a cease-fire. Associated Press reporters heard heavy shelling on Friday morning north and east of Mariupol. The...
U.K. says new Russian sanctions could be lifted if ceasefire holds
The European Union and the United States are preparing a new round of economic sanctions against Russia for its incursion into Ukraine …read more Source: The Globe and...
NATO leaders to outline rapid response force aimed at deterring Russian aggression
NEWPORT — NATO leaders will back plans Friday for positioning more troops and military equipment in Eastern Europe, establishing a rapid response force aimed at easing anxiety among member states near Russia’s border and deterring the Kremlin against replicating its provocations in Ukraine elsewhere in the region. The announcement will come...
Canada to send military advisers to Iraq to counter ISIS
NATO leaders convening in Britain on Thursday faced no shortage of crises and a challenge from two of their dominant partners to confront a virulent new form of extremism in the Mideast — a challenge that, CBC News has learned, Canada is taking its own steps to address. …read more Source:...
After rebels burn down his KHL club’s arena in Ukraine, Padakin returns to Hitmen, earns Flames camp invite
Pavel Padakin has found a way to make the best out of a bad situation. …read more Source: Calgary...
How NATO members plan to reinvent the alliance
In a bid to end a struggle with Russia over Ukraine and to halt the spread of brutal Islamist terror, NATO members are vowing to reinvent the military alliance …read more Source: The Globe and...
NATO has no right to push Ukraine to keep fighting a war it can’t win.
A ceasefire scheduled to begin Friday may fall apart, and the fighting may resume. But to encourage Mr. Poroshenko in the meantime to keep up a hopeless fight is to nudge Ukrainians toward an even greater disaster than what they’ve lived through so far. …read more Source: The Globe and...
Ukraine’s leader: Careful optimism on peace talks
Ukraine’s president, at NATO summit, voices ‘careful optimism’ on peace talks with rebels …read more Source:...
Pugliese: How NATO backed Russia into a corner
NEWPORT, Wales – NATO leaders meeting here have been quick to brand Russia an aggressor state, intent on dominating Eastern Europe. Earlier this year, Prime Minister Stephen Harper called Russia “militaristic” and “imperialistic” while Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird suggested the country’s recent actions in Ukraine were akin to those...
Fisher: How Russia’s Vladimir Putin hoodwinked the West
A few months ago I wrote from eastern Ukraine that Russian President Vladimir Putin might have blinked when he appeared to do an unexpected volte-face and called for an end to the violence there. I was wrong. Putin did not blink. What the Russian leader has done every day since the beginning of March has been to hoodwink the West about everything...
