Section: The Vancouver Sun (Canada)
Vladimir Putin reveals secret meeting when he decided to ‘return Crimea to Russia’
Vladimir Putin has described a secret meeting with officials last year when Russia decided it would take Crimea …read more Source: Vancouver...
EU president says Putin’s goal ‘is to divide Europe’ as continent’s top diplomats gather in Latvia
EU unity has been in short supply here on the shores of the Baltic Sea, where Europe’s top diplomats gathered this week to forge a common strategy on the Ukraine crisis …read more Source: Vancouver...
Russia-Canada war of words turns hostile amid Nazi accusations
A 93-year-old Quebec beekeeper accused of being a Nazi war criminal has become the latest salvo in an increasingly hostile war of words between the Canadian and Russian governments. The two countries have been slinging insults and accusations at each other on Twitter and other social media since Russia annexed Crimea and began providing military...
More than 30 coal miners trapped underground after deadly explosion in Ukraine
The blast ripped through the mine more than 1,000 metres underground as 230 miners were working, separatist authorities in Donetsk said …read more Source: Vancouver...
Ukraine will now start actually pulling back heavy weapons as required by cease-fire agreement, military says
Implementation of that deal is being overseen by an almost 600 person-strong team from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe …read more Source: Vancouver...
Rebels says they are pulling back heavy weapons in eastern Ukraine, but where are those howitzers going?
Russian President Vladimir Putin, in his first extended commentson the Minsk peace plan, assures a full-scale war with Ukraine ‘is unlikely’ …read more Source: Vancouver...
Ukraine can’t pull back heavy weapons from front line for ceasefire because rebels keep attacking, military says
Under a peace agreement reached on Feb. 12, both sides are to withdraw their heavy weapons anywhere from 25 to 70 kilometres to create a buffer zone …read more Source: Vancouver...
Bomb blast in eastern Ukraine kills 2, injures dozens on anniversary of former president’s ouster
Two people were killed and about a dozen injured in a bomb explosion at a march Sunday in Ukraine’s second-largest city marking the first anniversary of the ouster of president Viktor Yanukovych …read more Source: Vancouver...
Rebels in Ukraine feared to be zeroing in on Mariupol — which could give them a land bridge to Russia
Concerns have risen that the rebels are still gunning to take Mariupol, a city on the Sea of Azov that could allow rebels to create a land bridge between Russia and Crimea …read more Source: Vancouver...
U.K. scrambles fighter jets to intercept Russian military planes flying off coast of England
The U.K. scrambled fighter jets to intercept and escort two Russian military aircraft flying close to the British coastline amid tensions over the crisis in Ukraine …read more Source: Vancouver...
