Section: The Vancouver Sun (Canada)
‘Everything is destroyed’: Tug of war in eastern Ukraine takes toll on civilians, may forewarn new rebel push
In a stark violation of February’s ceasefire, Russian-backed forces rained fire down Tuesday and the attack may foreshadow rebel offensive on key city of Mariupol …read more Source: Vancouver...
Matthew Fisher: Russia-Ukraine war seems out of sight, out of mind in fun-loving Kyiv
The conflict between Ukraine and Russia is not a phoney war. The blood still being shed in eastern Ukraine is real. Yet visiting Kyiv is a surreal experience …read more Source: Vancouver...
Former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili appointed governor of Ukraine’s Odessa region
Russian President Vladimir Putin disdains Saakashvili, who came to power in the 2003 Rose Revolution protests. The Kremlin points to those demonstrations as the beginning of the so-called ‘colour revolutions’ …read more Source: Vancouver...
Canadians take part in NATO war games aimed at sending message to Russia over Ukraine aggression
While what Canadian Joint Operations Command is calling Exercise Sarmis has not attracted much attention in the West, it has been big news in Romania and Russia is not amused …read more Source: Vancouver...
Russia has thousands of troops fighting in Ukraine, report by murdered Putin critic says
The report, which Boris Nemtsov was working on at the time of his murder, seeks to counter official Russian accounts casting the Ukraine conflict as a local uprising …read more Source: Vancouver...
Kerry visit won’t change Canada’s chilly relationship with Moscow, Nicholson insists
Foreign Affairs Minister Rob Nicholson defended Canada’s cold shoulder to Moscow on Tuesday as his American counterpart, Secretary of State John Kerry, made his first visit to Russia since the crisis in Ukraine erupted last year. Canada has suspended all but the most low-level discussions with Russia over the latter’s annexation of...
John Kerry heading to Russia on first visit since Ukraine crisis in bid to ease tensions
In a sign of the considerable U.S.–Russia strains, the Kremlin said Putin’s attendance had yet to be confirmed …read more Source: Vancouver...
Ukraine erects rickety stretch of fences along eastern border in First-World-War-style defence against Russia
A little more than a year and-a-half ago, the very idea of creating such fortifications — reminiscent of World War I trench warfare — would have struck many as perverse …read more Source: Vancouver...
Pro-Russia separatists firing rockets again in violation of ceasefire deal, Ukraine says
Separatist rebels in the east of Ukraine have resumed the use of rocket launchers that should have been withdrawn under a February peace deal, Ukrainian military officials said Tuesday. …read more Source: Vancouver...
Russian troops amassing in eastern Ukraine represent largest military presence along border since October
‘Russian-separatist forces maintain a sizeable number of artillery pieces and multiple rocket launchers within areas prohibited’ under ceasefire …read more Source: Vancouver...
