Section: The Daily Beast (USA)
Car-Bomb Murders Terrify Ukraine’s Capital, and Many Suspect the Kremlin’s Behind Them
KIEV, Ukraine—On Wednesday at 10:05 p.m., Ukrainian Member of Parliament Igor Mosiychuk, his bodyguard Ruslan Kushnir, and a political analyst named Vitaly Bala were walking toward their cars after appearing on a live broadcast of Espresso TV when they were hit by a powerful blast. It killed Kushnir, the bodyguard, as well as a retired police...
Paul Manafort Sought $850 Million Deal With Putin Ally and Alleged Gangster
Paul Manafort partnered on an $850 million New York real estate deal with an ally of Vladimir Putin and a Ukrainian moneyman whom the Justice Department recently described as an “organized crime member.” at The Daily Beast. …read more Source: The Daily...
The American Doctor Trying to Cure Ukraine’s Corruption
KIEV, Ukraine—When U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson hurried here to Ukraine’s capital after the G-20 summit earlier this month one of his goals was to speak about the “importance of implementing anti-corruption reforms.” at The Daily Beast. …read more Source: The Daily...
Before Putin Helped Trump, He Murdered Everyone on MH17
The missile rose from a field near the village named Red October (Chervonyi Zhovten) in eastern Ukraine. In less than a minute it found its target at 33,000 feet. The warhead was a fragmentation bomb, triggered by a proximity fuse. It exploded as the missile was to the left and a little above the Boeing 777. A supersonic wave of shrapnel tore...
Team Trump’s Gotcha on Ukraine-DNC ‘Collusion’ is Total B.S. and Trump Aides Know It
The White House and its allies have a plan to make the Donald Trump Jr. Russia-email scandal go away. The plan, which shows no sign of being able to make “Fetch” happen, relies on deliberate misrepresentation, wishful thinking, and bizarre false-equivalence. It involves making the entire story about the Democratic Party and Ukraine. at The Daily...
Putin’s Sending a Tough Guy as Ambassador to the U.S.—He Should Fit Right In to Trump’s Washington
KIEV, Ukraine—In Russia it’s often said that “deputy directors” in the federation bureaucracy are the actual decision makers. If so, over the past decade the Russian military officer and diplomat Gen. Anatoly Antonov has been making a lot of very important decisions indeed. at The Daily Beast. …read more Source: The Daily...
Huge Cyber Attack Hits Ukraine, Then Ransomware Goes Global
LVIV, Ukraine—At about 11:00 on Tuesday morning, local time, Ukraine found itself under a massive cyber attack: dozens of state and private websites and computer systems at strategic companies reported their websites frozen with the same message on the screen that said: “Ooops, your important files encrypted.” Soon, that message was spreading...
Trump’s Tough Talk On Ukraine Has Kiev Ecstatic, and Moscow Furious—But Will It Last?
KIEV—The 45 million people of Ukraine have been waiting for months to see President Petro Poroshenko visit the White House, hoping he’d get there before the the Kremlin’s boss, Vladimir Putin, manages to make it to Washington. at The Daily Beast. …read more Source: The Daily...
Putin’s Hidden Insurgency Tore Up Ukraine. Now It’s Coming For Your Inbox.
In the early days of 2014, “little green men,” irregular paramilitary forces, began popping up across Crimean outposts. The West assumed they were Russian soldiers, but could they be sure? at The Daily Beast. …read more Source: The Daily...
Underground Water Pipe Explodes in Ukraine in This Insane Video
An underground water pipe in Kiev, Ukraine exploded and the footage is nuts. at The Daily Beast. …read more Source: The Daily...
