Section: Newsweek (USA)
Dozens Injured in Blast Outside Kiev Parliament Amid Protests
The Ukrainian parliament is considering greater autonomy for pro-Russian dominated eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Putin’s War: Regular and Volunteer Ukrainian Troops Vie in Mariupol
Members of the battle-hardened Azov battalion are feeling sidelined. …read more Source:...
Ukraine Pushes for New Sanctions in Retaliation for Russian Detentions
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has called for a blacklist of the officials behind Savchenko and Sentsov trials. …read more Source:...
Photos: Ukraine Independence Day
President Petro Poroshenko, servicemen and Ukrainian crowds mark Ukraine Independence Day. …read more Source:...
Putin’s War: Front-line Residents Discover Churchill’s Defiant Spirit
This story first appeared on The Daily Signal. A biography of Winston Churchill sits on Stephan Machsma’s desk. Machsma is the mayor of Sartana, Ukraine, and he is leading the town’s approximately 10,000 residents through their own darkest hour. On the night of August 16, starting around 10 p.m., combined Russian-separatist forces...
Putin’s War: Death of Daniel, 19-Year-Old Ukrainian Patriot
This story first appeared on The Daily Signal. A mortar killed Daniel Kasyanenko on a battlefield in eastern Ukraine. He was 19 years old. He died on August 6, almost six months after the February 12 cease-fire. He was one of 18 Ukrainian soldiers to die in a 10-day stretch from August 1 to August 10; 98 Ukrainian soldiers were wounded in combat...
Putin’s War: Pro-Russians Fire Rockets and Shells into Mariupol
Thunderstorms hovering over the Sea of Azov caught the setting sun, turning orange and then pink. A cool end-of-day breeze kicked up. Later on Sunday night, August 16, in downtown Mariupol when the artillery started, the booms and flashing lights over the rooftops looked like lightning and sounded like thunder. To the trained ear, however, the...
No More Norwegian Salmon For Russians
When Moscow banned European food imports last year in response to Western sanctions over its actions in Ukraine, Norwegian salmon fishermen were faced with a problem. Russia was the Norwegian fishing industry’s single largest export market. But the Norwegians were craftier than the Kremlin and found a way to wriggle off this hook. Within...
Surge in Fighting Between Ukraine Forces and Separatists Threatens Ceasefire
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday he suspected Ukraine was preparing a new offensive against pro-Moscow separatists in east Ukraine following an upsurge in fighting. Clashes near the port city of Mariupol and the rebel-held town of Gorlivka have put further strain on a fragile ceasefire between...
What’s Behind the Surge in Israelis Seeking EU Citizenship?
Last year, Hadas Kedar dug through the drawers in her parents’ apartment, looking for proof of her family’s life in Hungary during the 1920s. Eventually, she found several birth certificates and elementary school diplomas, put them in a folder, then sketched out a family tree and brought the paperwork to the Hungarian Embassy in Tel...
