Section: The Vancouver Sun (Canada)
Matthew Fisher: Canada’s dreamers ignore Russian aggression and offer Putin an olive branch instead
Liberal government chooses to ignore such issues as the seizure of Crimea, bombing of Aleppo. Will speak instead about global warming …read more Source: Vancouver...
Ukraine meeting that excluded Canada wasn’t a snub, says former adviser to Trudeau
Canada’s mission to Ukraine is being conducted in conjunction with the U.S. and the United Kingdom — but U.K. prime minister Theresa May also wasn’t in the meeting …read more Source: Vancouver...
Mob attacks Roma community in Ukraine after man arrested in connection with rape, murder of girl
Residents said tensions between non-Roma and Roma, already high, boiled over after the girl’s body was found. After her death, hundreds demanded the Roma be expelled …read more Source: Vancouver...
Putin orders snap military drills involving troops, airforce and navy as talks on Ukraine near
‘I, for one, couldn’t imagine that Russia would flout international law to the point of annexing Crimea’ …read more Source: Vancouver...
Putin tones down rhetoric after Ukraine puts army on high alert for possible ‘full-scale Russian invasion’
Vladimir Putin sought to ease tensions even as he convened a meeting in Crimea to demand heightened security measures on the peninsula he annexed in 2014 …read more Source: Vancouver...
Donald Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort resigns from presidential campaign
Manafort is stepping down in the wake of a campaign shake-up, as well as revelations about his work for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine …read more Source: Vancouver...
Putin deploys Russia’s most advanced air-defence missiles in Crimea as alarm grows war is imminent
World powers urged Russia and Ukraine to refrain from ratcheting up a confrontation over Crimea as Vladimir Putin bolstered the disputed peninsula’s military …read more Source: Vancouver...
Ukraine calls attacks in Crimea a Russian ploy, accuses Putin of intentionally escalating conflict
Accusations that Ukrainian agents have engaged in ‘terror’ tactics on the disputed Crimean peninsula may be a ploy by Russia to justify an escalation of the military conflict in its former Soviet ally, officials in Kiev said. …read more Source: Vancouver...
War against Russia-backed separatists has turned Ukraine into a ‘supermarket’ for illegal weapons
Since the conflict broke out in 2014, the number of crimes involving firearms has more than doubled in Ukraine, a country where gun ownership was previously very rare …read more Source: Vancouver...
Chernobyl’s next phase: Ukraine is looking to turn the site of nuclear meltdown into massive solar farm
The move to solar at Chernobyl may also help Ukraine move closer toward the European Union and influence public opinion in conflict zones along the Russian border …read more Source: Vancouver...
