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    Cossack fighters celebrate key Ukraine rail hub’s fall
    Feb19

    Cossack fighters celebrate key Ukraine rail hub’s fall

    Group that spearheaded imperial Russia’s expansion once faced persecution but resurfaced after 1991 Soviet collapse …read more Source:...

    Walesa: Solidarity in sanctions would change Putin’s policy
    Feb19

    Walesa: Solidarity in sanctions would change Putin’s policy

    WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s former president and Solidarity leader Lech Walesa said Thursday he believes that global solidarity in economic sanctions against Russia would lead President Vladimir Putin to change his aggressive policy in Ukraine…. …read more Source: Associated...

    Debaltseve under rebel control, Cossack fighters celebrate
    Feb19

    Debaltseve under rebel control, Cossack fighters celebrate

    DEBALTSEVE, Ukraine (AP) — Rebel fighters, many of them Cossacks, roamed the streets of Debaltseve on Thursday, a day after Ukrainian forces began withdrawing from the besieged town. The mood was celebratory, with fighters laughing, hugging each other and posing for photos. Associated Press journalists drove Thursday around about half …...

    All the other places Russia would be able to trigger a crisis in
    Feb19

    All the other places Russia would be able to trigger a crisis in

    Although the world’s attention is focused on the eastern Ukrainian steppe of the Donbass, where a frail ceasefire seems to have collapsed after Russian separatists took control of the key railway town of Debaltseve, there are many other places where the Russian bear might set its eyes sooner or later. Russian interests abroad tend to fall...

    Say It Ain’t So, Phil
    Feb19

    Say It Ain’t So, Phil

    A visiting delegation from Ukraine recently provided the office of Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) with photographs that purported to show Russian units operating in Ukraine. Some of the images were published in the Washington Free Beacon — and then all hell broke loose. It didn’t take long for someone (in this case, Dan Trombly) to do a...

    Putin Calls West’s Bluff Over Ukraine Peace Deal
    Feb19

    Putin Calls West’s Bluff Over Ukraine Peace Deal

    Vladimir Putin has called Europe’s bluff over east Ukraine as Russia-backed separatists seize a strategic town in defiance of a ceasefire brokered by France and Germany. …read more Source:...

    Chicago-Based Group Sends Drones To Ukrainian Military
    Feb19

    Chicago-Based Group Sends Drones To Ukrainian Military

    A Chicago-based group has begun supplying the Ukrainian military with drones, supplementing the non-lethal aid that troops fighting in the East Ukraine war have already received from the United States government. …read more Source: International Business...

    Poroshenko seeks U.N. peacekeepers in Ukraine
    Feb19

    Poroshenko seeks U.N. peacekeepers in Ukraine

    Ed AdamczykKIEV, Ukraine, Feb. 19 (UPI) — Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko suggested United Nations peacekeepers to be deployed to monitor Ukraine’s cease-fire. …read more Source: United Press...

    Ukraine’s Phony Peacekeeping Plan
    Feb19

    Ukraine’s Phony Peacekeeping Plan

    It’s a shame that Ukraine’s peacekeeping proposal is probably only a diplomatic maneuver. …read more Source:...

    What’s In a Name?
    Feb19

    What’s In a Name?

    There is a new acronym in official Washington: CVE. It stands for “countering violent extremism.” The latter two words comprise the term that President Obama, and his spokespeople in the executive branch, insist on employing in place of Islamist terrorism, which accurately describes the plague that has been inflicted on Christians, Jews, Shia...