Section: Newsweek (USA)
Ukraine Reports Rebels Open Fire Nearly 100 Times In One Day
Ukraine’s forces stationed in the war-torn east have reported that pro-Russian separatists opened fire nearly 100 times in one day, in another apparent surge in violations of the region’s fragile ceasefire. According to the Facebook page of Kiev’s military operations in government-held areas of Donetsk and Luhansk, Wednesday saw...
Ukraine’s Savchenko Condemns Russian ‘Slave Mentality’
Ukraine’s most popular politician, who spent nearly two years in Russian and rebel captivity, has accused Russians of having the mentality of slaves in an interview with Ukrainian news site Apostrof. Nadiya Savchenko, a former military pilot, who was captured during the height of combat in east Ukraine two years ago, was elected to...
Rio 2016: Ukraine Feels ‘Robbed of Gold’ In Bout With Russia
Ukraine’s Minister of Sport Igor Zhdanov has declared that one of the country’s top Olympians “was robbed of the deserved gold” in a scrappy wrestling final against Russia. Ukraine’s Zhan Beleniuk went into Monday night’s 85kg Greco Roman final bout with Russian Davit Chakvetadze as world number one. An evenly matched...
Ukraine Reports Repelling Separatist Attack As Hostilities Continue
Ukraine has reported repelling an attempted attack by Russian-backed rebel forces in the country’s east, amid an uptick in violations of a fragile ceasefire. Government forces deployed in the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk announced via Facebook that rebels opened fire 64 times Sunday, including an attempt to overwhelm a military checkpoint...
Ukraine Concerned With Vladimir Putin’s Olympic War Games
Ukraine has drawn parallels between its building tensions with Moscow and Russian military operations during previous Olympic Games. Kiev fears that Moscow could use Rio 2016 as valuable cover should it seek to escalate the situation in Ukraine’s southeast. Earlier this week, Kiev reported unexplained closures of traffic along the three...
Vladimir Putin Is Using KGB Tactics In Crimea, Warns Lithuania
Russia is using Soviet-style tactics to confuse and attack Ukraine, Lithuania’s foreign minister has claimed, after Moscow accused Ukraine of planning a “terror” attack on Crimea. Crimea was annexed by Russia from Ukraine in 2014; on Wednesday, Russia’s federal security services said they had foiled attempts by Ukraine to send a group...
Ukraine Reports Russian Military Shootout in Crimea
Ukraine’s security services on Thursday said there had been a shootout involving Russian federal security agents (FSB) and Russian armed forces on the Crimean regional border, according to a statement on the Ukrainian president’s website. Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014 and maintains de facto control over, became the...
Vladimir Putin Accuses Ukraine Of New Crimea Terror Plot
Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine on Wednesday of using terrorist tactics to try to provoke a new conflict and destabilize annexed Crimea after Russia said it had thwarted two armed Ukrainian attempts to get saboteurs into the contested peninsula. Russia’s FSB security service said two people were killed in clashes and its forces had...
Rio 2016: Who is Ukraine’s Olympic Wrestling Prodigy Zhan Beleniuk?
Dressed in civilian clothes 25-year-old wrestler, Zhan Beleniuk, seems gentle and humble. But once he steps into the ring, sporting Ukraine’s tryzub symbol on his singlet, he has is capable of bringing down the world’s top grapplers. This summer will mark his first appearance at the Olympic Games. Beleniuk currently holds the European...
Russia Accuses Ukraine of Preparing Crimea Flare Up
Russia has accused Ukraine of preparing an attack on Crimea in a bid to “destabilize” the region, Moscow’s FSB security service announced on its website Wednesday. Crimea was annexed by Russia from Ukraine in 2014 and is internationally recognized as occupied Ukrainian territory. Moscow considers it part of the Russian Federation, however,...
