Section: The Washington Times (USA)
France vows to help Ukraine peace efforts
PARIS (AP) – French President Emmanuel Macron vowed to help Ukraine’s new president in his efforts to bring peace in the east of the country and in talking to Russia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said during a visit to Paris on Monday that the only way to solve the conflict … …read more Source: The Washington...
Vladimir Putin not interested in fighting corruption in Moldova
I laughed when I read Western press accounts regarding the current governmental crisis in the Eastern European nation of Moldova. Over the last few weeks, oligarch Vladimir Plahotnuic’s control over the tiny former Soviet republic, sandwiched between Ukraine and Romania, has been threatened. A coalition of the Socialist Party, headed...
Ukraine says panel has jurisdiction to hear Russia case
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – Ukraine on Tuesday accused Russia of “wholesale violations” of its mineral resources and fishing rights in the Black Sea and other waters bordered by the two countries as Kiev urged international arbitrators to hear a case about alleged Russian breaches of a United Nations maritime …...
Pope to meet Putin before Vatican Ukraine meeting
VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Francis will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Vatican next month, a day before Catholic leaders from Ukraine gather at the Holy See to discuss the continuing conflict there and the fallout from the schism between the Russian and Ukrainian Orthodox Churches. The … …read more Source: The...
Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Ukraine president, pushes for NATO, pledges public vote
Recently elected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Wednesday his new government is pushing ahead with plans to join NATO despite Russia’s disapproval, and said he would hold a national referendum on whether to join the Western military alliance. “First of all, we have an independent country, and this is our …...
New Ukraine president calls for tougher sanctions on Russia
BRUSSELS (AP) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is urging the European Union to step up sanctions against Russia amid continued tensions in the eastern Donbass region and Crimea. After talks Wednesday with European Council President Donald Tusk, Zelenskiy thanked the bloc for its “unwavering support” and called for the...
New Ukraine president commits to NATO, EU membership
BRUSSELS (AP) – Ukraine’s new president says his country still hopes to become a member of the NATO military alliance and the European Union but he is open to peace talks with neighboring Russia. Standing beside NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in Brussels on Tuesday, Volodymyr Zelenskiy said “the strategic course …...
Germany offers to support Ukraine, urges further reforms
BERLIN (AP) – Germany’s foreign minister says his country wants to offer Ukraine’s newly elected president support, but is calling for further reforms in the corruption-plagued country. Speaking Thursday before traveling to Kiev with his French counterpart, Heiko Maas said Germany and France won’t cease working to help...
New START sunk by old problem — Russian cheating
Analysts at the Brookings Institution have called extending the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) a “no brainer.” In reality, the United States is better off letting New START expire. The arms control treaty with Russia was negotiated in 2010 — five years before Moscow dismembered Ukraine — by … …read more...
UN tribunal orders Moscow to release Ukrainian sailors, ships
The Russian government was told by a United Nations tribunal on Saturday to immediately release three Ukrainian naval vessels and 24 sailors that had been captured near Crimea six months earlier. The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea announced its members voted 19-1 in favor of ordering Moscow … …read more Source: The...
