Section: US & Canada
Mad With Power?
Co-written with Robert Ferguson Weeks after a chorus of international outrage erupted over the annexing of Crimea and the downing of Malaysia Airline’s Flight 17 in pro-Russian rebel airspace in Ukraine and the death of 298 civilians, Russia is unapologetically sending new military convoys equipped with mobile artillery into...
Pro-Russia separatists take control of coastal Ukraine town
Pro-Russia separatists, relaxed and well-equipped, held firm control on Friday of the strategic coastal town of Novoazovsk, a day after Ukraine claimed tanks and armored vehicles had invaded from Russia. …read more Source: FOX...
Analysis: Russian troops in Ukraine a ‘game-changer’
The presence of 1,000 Russian soldiers in eastern Ukraine “is a game-changer” in the months-long conflict with Russian-backed separatists, says one analyst, but it remains unlikely that the international community will be dragged into a full-scale war. …read more Source: CTV...
NATO to Russia: Stop ‘Illegal’ Ukraine Operations
NATO condemns what it calls Russian efforts to destabilize Ukraine, charges Moscow dismisses as ‘conjecture.’ VOA’s Jeff Custer reports. …read more Source: Voice of...
McDonald’s Objects to Russia Restaurant Closures
McDonald’s on Friday objected to the Russian government’s decision to close 12 of its restaurants in the country, following weeks of highly publicized investigations into health and safety at the fast food giant’s locations. “We are closely studying the content of the agency documents to determine what should be done to re-open...
‘Fog lifts to show Russia at war’
The West’s grand strategy of transforming Russia into a liberal democracy by weaving it into a web of interconnectedness has failed. By moving from proxy war to open war, by giving up pretense and deniability in Ukraine, Russia has very clearly made that point. …read more Source:...
EU ministers call for new sanctions against Russia
MILAN (AP) – Several European Union foreign ministers on Friday accused Russia of invading eastern Ukraine and said Moscow should be punished with more sanctions. The meeting of the 28-nation bloc’s top diplomats in Milan came one day after NATO said Moscow has slipped at least 1,000 Russian … …read more Source: The...
Putin Likens East Ukraine Crisis to Nazi Sieges
Vladimir Putin said Ukraine and Russia were “practically a single nationality” and compared Kiev’s military actions to the Nazi sieges of World War II …read more Source:...
Pro-Russia separatists in control of coastal town
Captured Ukrainian border guards sit in a garage at the Novoazovsk border crossing point, in eastern Ukraine, Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. At Novoazovsk, rebel fighters looked to be in firm control,… …read more Source: The Bismarck...
Death Toll in Ukraine Conflict Exceeds 2,200, U.N. Says
A surge in fighting around Donetsk and Luhansk brought the total number of people killed since mid-April to at least 2,220, and the number of injured to at least 5,956. …read more Source: The New York...
