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Ukraine Rebels Disavow Ceasefire at Encircled Town
By Anton Zverev and Gleb Garanich DONETSK/ARTEMIVSK, Ukraine, Feb 15 (Reuters) – Ukraine’s rebels disavowed a new truce on Sunday hours after it took effect, saying it did not apply to the town where most fighting has taken place in recent weeks. Guns fell abruptly silent at midnight across much of eastern Ukraine in line with the...
Cease-Fire Period Begins In Ukraine
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — The cease-fire period for the fighting in Ukraine has begun, but there are no immediate indications of whether either side in the conflict that has killed more than 5,300 people is observing it. Under an agreement struck last week, both Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed separatist rebels were to hold their fire as of one...
DEBALTSEVE UNDER FIRE
“God save and preserve us” is written on a blackboard in one of the many ad-hoc bomb shelters in Debaltseve, a strategic railway hub in eastern Ukraine. Here over a hundred people–including children and elderly pensioners–take refuge from the shelling. With the newly-signed ceasefire coming into effect at midnight on...
Fighting Rages In Ukraine As Cease-Fire Deadline Approaches
SVITLODARSK, Ukraine (AP) — Heavy artillery fire roared Saturday in eastern Ukraine as fighting between Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed separatists continued hours before a cease-fire was to take effect in the conflict that has killed more than 5,300 people.Associated Press reporters saw the artillery barrage near the town of Svitlodarsk as...
U.S. Accuses Kremlin Of Joining Ukraine Rebels In Assault Ahead Of Cease-Fire
The United States accused Russia on Friday of massing artillery and rocket systems around a contested town in eastern Ukraine and joining pro-Russian rebels in attacking Ukrainian forces, calling such actions a violation of the spirit of a cease-fire agreement signed just one day earlier. …read more Source: The Huffington...
Weekend Roundup: Merkel in the Middle as Post-Cold War Europe Falters
The whole idea of European integration was to anchor Germany in Europe to avoid another world war and to spread prosperity across the continent with a single market and common currency. Russia agreed to German unification after the Cold War in exchange for the West not absorbing Europe’s eastern frontier into its sphere of influence. Now...
Why America, Not Europe, Is Kiev’s Biggest Headache
Introducing “lethal defensive weapons” into the Ukraine conflict seems the right thing to do. It confirms the visceral Western feeling that Russia — the country where, “they make no pretense of loving liberty” as Lincoln once put it — only respects force. American policy makers in particular are pushing for...
Ukraine Rebels Battle To Capture Town Ahead Of Cease-Fire Deadline
LUHANSKE, Ukraine (AP) — Fierce fighting surged in east Ukraine as Russian-backed separatists mounted a major and sustained new push Friday to capture a strategic railway hub ahead of a weekend cease-fire deadline.Clashes appeared only to have increased in the day since a peace agreement was sealed in the Belarusian capital of Minsk by the...
The Possible Outcomes of Nuclear Negotiations with Iran
With the end of next month, nuclear talks between Iran and the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France, and Germany will reach a historical juncture that will determine the future of nuclear armament in the region, regardless of whether the talks fail or culminate in an agreement. From now until the seven weeks pass, the American-Russian...
Senate Confirms Ashton Carter As Secretary Of Defense
WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to confirm Ashton Carter as President Barack Obama’s next secretary of defense. Carter, 60, who was approved in a 93-5 vote, served as deputy defense secretary, the Pentagon’s No. 2 position, from 2011 to 2013. He was also the Defense...
