Section: US & Canada
Kiev Says It Cannot Withdraw Heavy Weapons as Attacks Persist
Ukraine’s military said on Monday it could not start withdrawing heavy weapons from the front line in the east as required under a tenuous ceasefire because pro-Russian separatists who advanced last week were still attacking its positions. A truce to end fighting that has killed more than 5,600 people appeared stillborn last week after...
Ukrainian currency dives as cease-fire stalls
Ed AdamczykKIEV, Ukraine, Feb. 23 (UPI) — Ukraine’s currency sunk to a record low Monday, as pessimism over a cease-fire in eastern Ukraine prompted doubt about the country’s economic potential. …read more Source: United Press...
How the Post-Cold War Order Broke Down
MOSCOW — The withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from Debaltseve removes a major obstacle to the full implementation of the recent Minsk agreement. However, that development also has a different meaning. It was not the Ukrainian side, but their opponents — who are working to dismantle the current Ukrainian state — that determined...
Military expert: Russian snap military drills could turn into assaults on Baltic capitals
The Baltic states are becoming increasingly unnerved by the growing number of Russian military drills close to their borders, Damien Sharkov of Newsweek reports, Since the start of the Ukrainian crisis, Russia has been staging military drills close to the Baltic regions at an increasingly common pace. Martin Hurt, the deputy director of...
Suffering Ukrainian currency takes another fall
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s economy, which has been badly hit by more than a year of crisis, has suffered another blow with a sharp drop in the national currency, the hryvnia. …read more Source: U.S....
Watching a Shaky Cease-Fire in Ukraine
Earlier this month, a cease-fire agreement was signed in Minsk, Belarus, after long talks between leaders of Russia, Ukraine, Germany, and France. Ukrainian government troops and rebel forces in Eastern Ukraine agreed to cease hostilities by February 15 and withdraw heavy weapons at least 30 miles from the agreed-upon buffer zone stretching...
Suffering Ukrainian currency takes another fall
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Suffering Ukrainian currency takes another fall
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s economy, which has been badly hit by more than a year of crisis, has suffered another blow with a sharp drop in the… …read more Source:...
Stop Drinking the Weak Sauce
For 25 years now, a weak-state fixation has transfixed U.S. foreign policy. It all started with the humanitarian interventions of the 1990s, which advanced the idea that American power in a post-Cold War world could and should bring justice, peace, and prosperity to places like Somalia, Bosnia, Haiti, and Kosovo. Freed from the security...
Ukrainian Military Reports Rebel Drones Over East Ukraine
Pro-Russian rebels have flown as many as 12 reconnaissance drones over various areas of the contested Donbas region on Monday, Ukrainian authorities claimed. The presence of the unmanned aerial vehicles comes as a week-old ceasefire keeps being breached repeatedly. …read more Source: International Business...
