Section: US & Canada
In Ukraine, Russia Weaponizes Fake News to Fight a Real War
KYIV, Ukraine—As the Russian shells and rockets rained down on them in the front-line town of Debaltseve in February 2015, Ukrainian troops began to receive curious, anonymous SMS messages on their cellphones. “Your comrades nearby already left their positions, so you should leave yours as well,” one message read. The messages also claimed that...
Is Putin the ‘Preeminent Statesman’ of Our Times?
“If we were to use traditional measures for understanding leaders, which involve the defense of borders and national flourishing, Putin would count as the preeminent statesman of our time. “On the world stage, who could vie with him?” So asks Chris Caldwell of The Weekly Standard in a remarkable essay in Hillsdale College’s March issue of...
In separatist eastern Ukraine, entrepreneurs are turning abandoned McDonald’s into ‘DonMak’
When the McDonald’s in Donetsk shuttered due to war and Western sanctions, local entrepreneurs opened a nearly-identical fast food restaurant named DonMak. …read more Source: Business...
Ukraine Gov’t Pledges to Cease Fire in the East on Saturday
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has ordered his country’s troops to cease firing on Russia-backed separatists on Saturday.Fighting between government troops and the separatists has been raging in eastern Ukraine since 2014, killing more than 9,800 people.A 2015 peace… …read more Source:...
Ukrainian corruption casts a nuclear pall over all of Europe
In 2016 the No. 1 tourist destination of Ukraine was the lifeless town of Pripyat, evacuated after the deadly reactor meltdown at Chernobyl in 1986. Today, Ukraine relies on nuclear power for 53 percent of its power generation, but is risking another nuclear accident on a scale greater than Europe … …read more Source: The Washington...
Ukraine gov’t pledges to cease fire in the east on Saturday
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has ordered his country’s troops to cease firing on Russia-backed separatists on Saturday. …read more Source: FOX...
Ukraine gov’t pledges to cease fire in the east on Saturday
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has ordered his country’s troops to cease firing on Russia-backed separatists on Saturday …read more Source: ABC...
Ukraine gov’t pledges to cease fire in the east on Saturday
Fighting between government troops and the separatists has been raging in eastern Ukraine since 2014, killing more than 9,800 people. A 2015 peace deal brokered by France and Germany has helped reduce the scale of fighting, but violence has continued while attempts to broker a political settlement have failed. …read more Source: San...
Ukraine President Orders Cease-Fire In Eastern Conflict Zone
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has ordered the military to implement a cease-fire and weapons pullback in the conflict region in eastern Ukraine beginning on April 1. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
NATO, Russia, Share Troop Information, at Odds over Ukraine
NATO’s chief says the allies and Russia remain at loggerheads over the conflict in Ukraine but have exchanged briefings on their troop movements elsewhere in Europe to help ease tensions.NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the “allies and Russia continue to have… …read more Source:...
