Section: The Daily Beast (USA)
Putin Sends Dirty War Forces to Syria
The Kremlin isn’t sending just any troops to prop up the Assad regime. It’s dispatching units that spearheaded Russia’s slow-rolling invasion of Ukraine. …read more Source: The Daily...
The Real Housewives of Ukraine
Despite revolution and war, Ukraine’s capital is a Mecca for glamor young girls on the make. And there’s no shortage of eager sugar daddies. …read more Source: The Daily...
Chechen Jihadists Join Ukraine Fighters
A battalion of fighters from the Caucasus is deployed on Kiev’s side in the Ukraine war. But their presence may do more harm than good. …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine’s Anti-Terrorist Terror
Yesterday’s bombing in Kiev by a far-right ultra-nationalist could keep Ukraine’s war going indefinitely. …read more Source: The Daily...
A Split Ukraine, and Kiev Bleeds Again
Outside, a bomb thrown from a right-wing mob leaves a riot cop dead and dozens severely injured. Inside, a bitter parliament cries treachery, but votes to approve the Minsk ceasefire. …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine’s Tarantino Goes to the Gulag
Oleg Sentsov, a Rising Star in European Cinema, is the Latest Victim of Russia’s Show Trials …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine’s Happiest Sad City
In an exclusive interview, the mayor of Western Ukraine’s most important metropolis explains how and why he’s brought democracy to Lviv. …read more Source: The Daily...
The Fifth Column on Ukraine’s Front Line
In the besieged strategic port of Mariupol, much of the population sympathizes with separatists. …read more Source: The Daily...
Deaths and Doubt on Ukraine’s Front Line
In one embattled neighborhood of the strategic port of Mariupol, residents say they aren’t sure who is shelling them. …read more Source: The Daily...
How Russia Hides Its Dead Soldiers
As fighting flares with no end in sight, Kiev makes its casualties public, Moscow does not. …read more Source: The Daily...