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Ukrainian President Calls For NATO To Send Weapons Amid Conflict
BERLIN, Feb 5 (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called on NATO states to send weapons to his country, saying in a newspaper interview that civilian deaths and the growing conflict should provide the Western alliance with enough reason to come to Ukraine’s aid. The United States is reconsidering whether to provide...
U.S. Unveils NATO Weapons Program
(Adds comment from Pentagon nominee) By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) – The U.S. government on Wednesday announced a two-year project aimed at making it easier for NATO and member countries to share costs and buy weapons as a group as they struggle to stretch scarce defense budgets. Under the initiative, …read more Source:...
Putin Spending Big On Military Modernization Despite Russia’s Economic Woes
MOSCOW (AP) — Hundreds of new Russian aircraft, tanks and missiles are rolling off assembly lines. Russian jets roar through European skies under NATO’s wary eye. Tens of thousands of troops take part in war games showing off the military’s readiness for all-out war. The muscle flexing suggests that Russia’s economic woes so far...
Ukraine Shelling Hits Hospital In Rebel-Held Donetsk
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Heavy shelling in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday afternoon killed at least five people and damaged a hospital, six schools and five kindergartens, local officials said. The fighting between Russia-backed separatists and government troops in eastern Ukraine resumed in January after a month of...
Ashton Carter, Obama’s Nominee For Defense Secretary, To Brave Senate Confirmation Grilling
(Repeats story with n o change to text) By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s pick for defense secretary is poised to tell Republicans in Congress on Wednesday he might eventually consider reviewing the schedule for withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan, and would push to trim wasteful spending....
It’s Time To Provide Weapons to Ukraine
A short six months ago, officials in the United States and Europe were equating the pro-Russian separatists battling the Ukrainian army with drunken fools aimlessly running around the country causing mayhem. The description may not have been diplomatic, but it was an apt metaphor for how the separatists acted and the way they behaved towards...
Korea’s Place in an Interconnected World
The following speech was delivered on December 8, 2014 at the 7th World Policy Conference in Seoul. Last weekend, I came back from London, after taking part in the first Korea-UK Ministerial Strategic Dialogue and the Conference on Afghanistan. On that occasion, I had the privilege of speaking before Chatham House on Northeast Asia and the world....
Is Ukraine Fascist?
So which is it? Is Ukraine a hotbed of fascism, as the Kremlin and its supporters insist? Or is it a tolerant democracy, as Kiev and its supporters insist? The issue is important to sort out since members of the new Greek government, including Prime Minister Tsipsas, have suggested in the recent past that the new government in Kiev has...
UN Criticizes Civilian Deaths In Ukraine Fighting
ARTEMIVSK, Ukraine (AP) — Indiscriminate shelling and the escalation of fighting in eastern Ukraine have killed at least 224 civilians in the past three weeks alone, the United Nations said Tuesday as it raised the overall death toll to more than 5,350 people. “Bus stops and public transport, marketplaces, schools and kindergartens,...
Ukraine Troops Fight To Avoid Being Surrounded By Rebels
DEBALTSEVE, Ukraine (AP) — As Ukrainian troops fought Monday to defend a strategic railway hub, Russian-backed separatists pledged to boost the size of their force and Washington pondered whether to expand its assistance to Ukraine to include lethal aid. President Barack Obama has so far opposed sending lethal assistance, but an upsurge in...
