Section: The Vancouver Sun (Canada)
Putin says he’s afraid Ukraine will drift ‘toward neo-Nazism’ and ethnic cleansing
Though Putin told German TV he believed peace was possible, he also lashed out against what Moscow perceives as the repression of Russian-speakers in the region …read more Source: Vancouver...
Meet Jens Stoltenberg, NATO’s new man tasked with staring down Vladimir Putin
With Russian troops on the march in Ukraine, the task of reawakening the NATO giant to face a new crisis has fallen to the former prime minister of Norwa …read more Source: Vancouver...
Fisher: Putin leaving G20 early after chilly reception from Harper and other world leaders
Russian President Vladimir Putin is to skip the last day of G20 leaders’ two-day summit and return home early to Moscow after a chilly exchange with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and sharp criticisms from his Australian and American counterparts over Russia’s seizure of Crimea and reports of fresh incursions by heavily armed...
Russian ‘satellite image’ of MH17 being shot down by fighter jet dismissed as ‘crude fake’
Russian TV presented the image, said to have been taken moments before the passenger jet crashed in eastern Ukraine, as a smoking gun to confirm how it had been downed …read more Source: Vancouver...
Fisher: Harper to Putin: ‘Get out of Ukraine’
BRISBANE, Australia — Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper told Russian leader Vladimir Putin to “get out of Ukraine” when the two leaders met Saturday at a retreat ahead of the G20 leaders’ summit in Brisbane. According to PMO spokesman Jason MacDonald, Harper found […] …read more Source: Vancouver...
NATO’s top commander says Russian troops and tanks have rolled into Ukraine
NATO’s top commander says new columns of Russian troops and tanks have rolled into eastern Ukraine, the claim promptly denied by Moscow. …read more Source: Vancouver...
Ukraine rebels seen moving large military convoys
SNIZHNE, Ukraine — Associated Press reporters saw more than 80 unmarked military vehicles on the move Saturday in rebel-controlled areas of eastern Ukraine, indicating that intensified hostilities may lie ahead. …read more Source: Vancouver...
Russia sent 32 tanks, 16 howitzers and 30 trucks over the border, Ukraine says
Ukraine’s military said its forces killed as many as 200 rebels in fighting in Donetsk as dozens of tanks and other military vehicles crossed the border into Ukraine from Russia. “Insurgents who were shelling Ukrainian troop positions at Donetsk Airport yesterday were killed by government troop artillery strikes,” Ukraine’s Defence...
Ukraine denounces ‘pseudo-elections’ as regions controlled by pro-Russia rebels vote for lawmakers
Residents in eastern Ukraine voted Sunday to elect legislators and executives in polls that have been staunchly denounced by the international community …read more Source: Vancouver...
