Section: The Vancouver Sun (Canada)
Pro-Russia rebels in Donetsk look to Texas to build global union of separatists
The self-proclaimed pro-Russian ‘state’ at the heart of the war in eastern Ukraine wants to unite several unrecognized states and breakaway lands into a coalition …read more Source: Vancouver...
Arctic Council meeting sets up awkward Russian visit to Canada
The federal government will host a high-level Russian delegation on Canadian soil in April, despite a deep freeze in relations between the two countries over the crisis in Ukraine. …read more Source: Vancouver...
Harrowing dashcam footage shows view of the terrifying artilery strike that killed 30 in Mariupol, Ukraine
Mariupol, a strategic port city on the Black Sea still controlled by Ukrainian forces, has been a symbolic bulwark against the separatist advance …read more Source: Vancouver...
Rockets kill 30 in Ukrainian city of Mariupol
KIEV, Ukraine — Indiscriminate rocket fire slammed into a market, schools, homes and shops Saturday in Ukraine’s southeastern city of Mariupol, killing at least 30 people, authorities said. …read more Source: Vancouver...
Rocket fire hits east Ukraine port city of Mariupol, authorities say at least 21 killed
KIEV, Ukraine — Indiscriminate rocket fire that hit a market, schools and homes Saturday in Ukraine’s strategically important coastal city of Mariupol killed at least 21 people, authorities said. …read more Source: Vancouver...
Pro-Russian Ukraine rebels rip up current ceasefire deal, launch new offensive
The top separatist leader in the region vowed to push Ukrainian soldiers out of the area and said rebels would not take part in any more ceasefire talks …read more Source: Vancouver...
Ukrainian rebels threaten an all-out offensive, defying agreement to return to ceasefire positions
Rebel leader of the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic said he will push the front so far back that no Ukrainian artillery will be able to fall on the city …read more Source: Vancouver...
Fisher: Putin’s Crimean ‘milestone’ looks as if it may become his millstone
Judging by my electronic mailbox, the most compelling international story for Canadians in 2014 was the tumult that Russian President Vladimir Putin and his proxies caused in Ukraine and the near panic that it triggered among its closest neighbours to […] …read more Source: Vancouver...
Putin calls annexation of Crimea an historic landmark
Experts have warned that Putin’s popularity, which soared after the annexation of Crimea, could fizzle quickly amid his nation’s economic downturn …read more Source: Vancouver...
Russia’s body count is rising in Ukraine, despite army officials’ denials
Anton Tumanov gave up his life for his country, but his country won’t say where and it won’t say how. …read more Source: Vancouver...
