Section: Boston Herald (USA)
France suspends delivery of warship to Russia
PARIS — France suspended the planned delivery of a warship to Russia on Tuesday, after months of growing speculation about what would be the biggest arms sale ever by a NATO country to the Kremlin.The French president’s office announced the suspension “until further notice” after growing pressure from allies to suspend the sale...
Russia gets greater control over Black Sea region
MOSCOW — Russia tightened its control Monday over Georgia’s breakaway province of Abkhazia with a new treaty envisaging closer military and economic ties with the lush sliver of land along the Black Sea.The move drew outrage and cries of “annexation” in Georgia and sent a chill through those in Abkhazia who fear that wealthy...
Tough stances from Putin, Merkel over Ukraine
MOSCOW — The leaders of Russia and Germany squared off over Ukraine from opposite sides of the globe, with Vladimir Putin warning that Moscow will not accept a defeat for the pro-Russian rebels and Angela Merkel accusing the Kremlin of undermining peace across Europe.But despite the harsh rhetoric, European Union foreign ministers refrained from...
Putin: Moscow won't let Ukraine rebels fail
MOSCOW — Moscow will not allow the defeat of pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned, arguing that both sides need to make concessions for a floundering peace deal to succeed.Putin’s statement in an interview with German ARD television came as European Union foreign ministers met in Brussels to discuss...
New video of MH17 downing shows alarm in Ukraine
HRABOVE, Ukraine — Four months after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine, The Associated Press has obtained video that shows how close the burning passenger jet came to hitting village homes and suggests that residents first assumed it was a Ukrainian military plane that had been struck.The amateur footage,...
Work starts in Ukraine to collect wreckage of MH17
HRABOVE, Ukraine — Workers in rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine began to collect debris from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on Sunday, four months after the plane was brought down.The operation is being carried out under the supervision of Dutch investigators and officials from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in...
Russian TV claims it has photo of downing of MH17
MOSCOW — Russian state television has released a satellite photograph that it claims shows that a Ukrainian fighter jet shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. But many commentators dismissed the photo as a fake.All 298 people aboard the Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur were killed when it was shot down July 17 over a rebel-held...
Putin: Western sanctions could backfire
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that Western sanctions against his country could backfire.Speaking in an interview with German ARD television broadcast Saturday, Putin said that cutting Russian access to capital markets would hurt Western exports.He also said the sanctions could hurt some Russian banks, leading them to demand...
NATO says Russian troops are in Ukraine
SOFIA, Bulgaria — NATO’s top commander says new columns of Russian troops and tanks have rolled into eastern Ukraine, the claim promptly denied by Moscow.U.S. Gen. Philip Breedlove said Wednesday that in the last two days “we have seen columns of Russian equipment, primarily Russian tanks, Russian artillery, Russian air defense...
Russian bomber patrols to reach Gulf of Mexico
MOSCOW — Russia’s defense minister says the military will conduct regular long-range bomber patrols, ranging from the Arctic Ocean to the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico.Sergei Shoigu’s statement comes as NATO has reported a spike in Russian military flights over the Black, Baltic and North seas as well as the Atlantic Ocean. It...
