Section: Newsweek (USA)
Russia Orders Convoy Across Border Without Permission From Kiev
Russia ordered a convoy of aid trucks across the border into eastern Ukraine on Friday apparently without Kiev’s permission, raising the danger of direct confrontation with the Ukrainian military which is fighting pro-Russian rebels. A Reuters witness said about 70 white-painted trucks, part of a column of about 260 that had been waiting at...
Moscow McDonald’s Branches Shuttered in Sanctions Tit-for-Tat
Russian authorities have closed four McDonald’s restaurants over “health violations.” But western analysts see the move as a purely political response to sanctions imposed upon Russia in response to the Russian annexation of Crimea and the Russian military support being given to separatist rebels in Ukraine. The flagship Pushkin Square...
Dozens Die in Street Battles and Heavy Shelling in Ukraine
Heavy shelling hit residential neighborhoods in Ukraine’s rebel stronghold of Donetsk and government forces fought street battles in other towns on Wednesday as they sought to crush a four-month-old separatist rebellion. The forces of the Western-backed Kiev government are steadily gaining the upper hand over the separatists in...
The Mission to Save Foley Ended Like Most: In Failure
Unlike in the movies, rescue missions rarely succeed. For every legendary success, like the Israeli commandos who rescued 102 hostages at Entebbe in Uganda in 1976, many more rescue missions fail. There was the infamous failed attempt to rescue U.S. hostage in Iran in 1979, and years before that in North Vietnam, a Special Forces raid on the long...
Protesters Hoist Ukrainian Flag Atop Moscow Landmark
Protesters against Russia’s support of separatists in Ukraine climbed a Stalin-era building in Moscow late on Tuesday night and painted its star-topped spire to resemble the Ukrainian flag. The golden yellow Soviet star on the building’s spire was partly painted blue and a Ukrainian flag was flown from a mast at the top. The star sits...
Dozens Die in Ukraine in Street Battles, Donetsk Shelling
KIEV/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – Heavy shelling hit residential neighborhoods in Ukraine’s rebel stronghold of Donetsk and government forces fought street battles in other towns on Wednesday as they sought to crush a four-month-old separatist rebellion. The forces of the Western-backed Kiev government are steadily gaining the upper...
Advancing Ukraine Troops Take Fight to Heart of Pro-Moscow Rebellion
(Reuters) – A gun battle broke out in the center of the rebel-held Ukrainian city of Donetsk and residents ran for cover from artillery fire on Tuesday, taking a government military offensive into the heart of the retreating pro-Moscow separatist rebellion. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart will meet next week...
The Top Secret Family Life of Vladimir Putin
Russian president Vladimir Putin lives his life in the ceaseless glare of the world’s regard. At work and on holiday, he is surrounded by a loyal gaggle of Kremlin pool journalists, TV cameras and photographers. Russia’s nightly news bulletins invariably lead with news of his daily activities. Yet he has succeeded in keeping his...
15 Bodies Retrieved After Ukraine Convoy Attack
Fifteen bodies have so far been recovered from the site of Monday’s rocket strike on a refugee convoy of buses and cars in eastern Ukraine, a military spokesman said on Tuesday. “By 7 p.m. last night we retrieved 15 bodies … The search continued into the night and is continuing today,” the spokesman, Andriy Lysenko, told...
Donetsk Separatists Introduce the Death Penalty for Treason
The government of the breakaway region of Donetsk in Ukraine announced that it will introduce the death penalty for serious crimes, including treason, after the first meeting of the separatist Council of Ministers today. “A legislative act provides for the death penalty for the gravest crimes,” a press release on the Donetsk People’s...
