Section: US & Canada
U.S. Considers Training Ukrainian Army Troops
By David Alexander WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. officials are considering expanding the American military training mission in Ukraine to include army and special operations troops, likely focusing on issues like tactics and combat medicine, a top U.S. Army general said on Monday. Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, the head of U.S. Army forces in...
Russia Black Sea Submarine Presence Revived As It Looks To Strengthen Military Position Near Crimea
Russian will send new diesel-electric submarines to its Black Sea port of Novorossiysk next year as it looks to reinforce its naval presence in the region, reported Tass, a Russian government news agency. …read more Source: International Business...
Collapse of barracks in Russia kills 23 soldiers
MOSCOW — A late-night barracks collapse killed 23 people and wounded at least 19 others in south-central Russia, as soldiers at a training center for airborne forces were crushed in their beds by a cascade of concrete and metal, the Russian Defense Ministry said Monday. Officials announced the death toll Monday after finishing an all-night...
Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Stephen Harper to sign Canada-Ukraine trade deal Tuesday
The embattled government of Ukraine has reached a free trade agreement with Canada, sources tell CBC News. The deal will be signed Tuesday when Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk visits the Quebec hamlet of Chelsea to meet Prime Minister Stephen Harper, whose summer residence is at nearby Harrington Lake. Yatsenyuk is on a visit to the...
Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Stephen Harper to sign Canada-Ukraine trade deal Tuesday
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Ukrainian counterpart will sign a free trade agreement Tuesday at a meeting in Chelsea, Que., near Harper’s summer cottage at Harrington Lake, CBC News has learned. …read more Source:...
Ukraine Nationalists: Country Headed for Coup
In recent days, the kind of armed violence previously limited to Ukraine’s beleaguered east came within 30 miles of the country’s European Union borders. In the city of Mukacheve, one person was killed in a Saturday gun fight between members of far-right nationalists known as Right Sector and security guards connected to a Ukrainian...
General: US considers expanding Ukraine training to army
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is considering a plan to expand its military training of Ukrainian forces to include army soldiers, the commander of… …read more Source:...
Russian Troops Prosecuted After Refusing to Fight in Ukraine
Several Russian soldiers are facing prosecution after they refused to fight in eastern Ukraine, Agence France-Presse reports. The Russian troops fled their bases after being urged to “volunteer” in Ukraine and assist pro-Russian separatists there, according to AFP: The popular Gazeta.ru website said several dozen soldiers would be prosecuted...
Ukraine’s Far-Right: Sifting Facts From Fiction
On July 4, 2015, one thousand far-right supporters and pro-government fighters marched through the center of Kiev, calling for the end of the Minsk ceasefire, the nationalization of Russian businesses, and a declaration of all-out war on Eastern Ukrainian separatists. The presence of visceral white supremacist symbolism and the leadership role...
Russia Protests Closing of News Agency Account in Britain
The Russian Foreign Ministry demanded Monday that Britain immediately clarify why the London bank account of Russia’s main state news agency has been closed. The ministry said it had information that Rossiya Segodnya’s (Russia Today) account with Barclays was closed Wednesday because of sanctions on its general director, Dmitry...
