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    OSCE Calls On Both Sides To Pull Back In Eastern Ukraine
    Feb03

    OSCE Calls On Both Sides To Pull Back In Eastern Ukraine

    The group monitoring the conflict in eastern Ukraine has made an urgent appeal to both sides to stop shelling and honor the ceasefire agreed in 2015, after this week’s sharp escalation in the conflict. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service) …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Trump Urged to Provide Defensive Weapons to Ukraine
    Feb03

    Trump Urged to Provide Defensive Weapons to Ukraine

    President Donald Trump is being pressed by Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) to send defensive weapons to Ukrainian forces fighting pro-Russian separatists, following a spike in violence in Ukraine’s east. McCain wrote a letter to Trump on Wednesday, urging the new president to provide lethal defensive aid to Ukraine and asserting that Russia...

    THE TRUMP WAY OF WAR
    Feb03

    THE TRUMP WAY OF WAR

    Originally published by the Jerusalem Post. The PLO is disoriented, panicked and hysterical. Speaking to Newsweek this week, Saeb Erekat, PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas’s chief conduit to Israel and the Americans, complained that since President Donald Trump was sworn into office, no administration official had spoken to them. “I don’t know...

    Trump ambassador hits Russia over Ukraine
    Feb03

    Trump ambassador hits Russia over Ukraine

    The US ambassador to the United Nations offered a strong condemnation of Russia in her first appearance at the UN Security Council on Thursday, calling on Moscow to de-escalate violence in eastern Ukraine and saying that US sanctions against Moscow would remain in place until it withdraws from Crimea. …read more Source:...

    ‘Our tanks are ready’: Ukraine braces for an escalation in war
    Feb03

    ‘Our tanks are ready’: Ukraine braces for an escalation in war

    Violence is bubbling over in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Business...

    Nikki Haley Delivers Strong Condemnation of Russian Actions in Ukraine
    Feb03

    Nikki Haley Delivers Strong Condemnation of Russian Actions in Ukraine

    Nikki Haley, the newly appointed U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, strong condemned Russia on Thursday for supporting separatists in eastern Ukraine amid increased violence in the country. Haley made her first appearance at the U.N. Security Council and did not hold back in threatening to hold Russia accountable by keeping sanctions in...

    Krugman Divulges What Trump’s Unhinged Phone Calls With Foreign Leaders Really Mean
    Feb03

    Krugman Divulges What Trump’s Unhinged Phone Calls With Foreign Leaders Really Mean

    Click here for reuse options! How would you handle it if you had an employee behaving this erratically? Two weeks into the Trump presidency and Paul Krugman, is already at wit’s end. “America and the world can’t take much more of this,” Krugman writes in Friday’s column.While thoughtful people have been worried about...

    Ukraine mourns fallen soldiers  amid uptick in Kremlin’s Donbas war
    Feb03

    Ukraine mourns fallen soldiers amid uptick in Kremlin’s Donbas war

    KYIV – Hundreds of mourners came to Independence Square on February 1 to honor seven soldiers from the 72nd Separate Mechanized Brigade who died defending Avdiyivka in Donetsk Oblast from repeated Russian onslaughts this week. A day after U.S. President Donald Trump spoke with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, over the phone, combined...

    Russia’s war in Ukraine must not be ‘forgotten’
    Feb03

    Russia’s war in Ukraine must not be ‘forgotten’

    On January 31, the BBC described the fighting in and around the Ukrainian city of Avdiyivka as “the front line of Europe’s ‘forgotten war,’ ” a characterization if accepted that ranks alongside Nevil Chamberlain’s dismissive remark about Hitler’s demands on Czechoslovakia as “a quarrel in a far-away country between people...

    Ukraine upgrades military potential with new tanks and missiles
    Feb03

    Ukraine upgrades military potential with new tanks and missiles

    Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine, starting in 2014, has naturally had a galvanizing effect on the Ukrainian military-industrial complex and its potential. According to various sources, this progress has been most apparent in areas including heavy weapons and equipment, production of small arms and light weapons, as well as...