Section: The Washington Times (USA)
Macron and Putin to discuss Iran nuclear deal, Syria
PARIS (AP) – Having failed to persuade U.S. President Donald Trump to stay in the Iran nuclear accord, French President Emmanuel Macron is reaching out to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Macron heads to St. Petersburg on Thursday amid deep differences with Putin over Syria, Ukraine and alleged Russian meddling abroad. … …read...
Russia initiates terrorism investigation into Washington Examiner journalists over Crimea article
Russian authorities have initiated criminal proceedings after The Washington Examiner, a D.C.-based magazine and website, published an article urging Ukraine to bomb Russia’s newly opened bridge to Crimea. Washington Examiner editorial director Hugo Gurdon and columnist Tom Rogan are both being criminally investigated in connection with the...
Merkel meeting with Putin for talks on Syria, Ukraine
SOCHI, Russia (AP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel is holding talks with President Vladimir Putin in Russia on Friday about the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine, the Iran nuclear agreement and a planned pipeline to bring gas from Russia to Germany. The meeting in the Black Sea resort of Sochi … …read more Source: The Washington...
Vladimir Putin crosses a bridge too far in writing off West
ANALYSIS/OPINION: This week, Vladimir Putin officially opened the recently-constructed Kerch Strait Bridge that the Russian president commissioned to connect the newly-annexed Crimean Peninsula to the Russian mainland. To commemorate the occasion, Mr. Putin led a convoy of new trucks across the $3 billion, 12-mile bridge, the longest span in...
Gina Haspel, Trump CIA nominee, ‘shrouded in scandal,’ says Russian press
As Gina Haspel, President Trump’s nominee to head the CIA, testified at the Senate hearing this week, media from around the world — especially from India, Russia and Ukraine — weighed in with their concerns. On Wednesday, the controversial but widely respected long-time veteran of the CIA’s clandestine service batted …...
Senate Dems concerned Ukraine not cooperating with Mueller’s Russia probe
Top Senate Democrats are pushing Ukrainian officials to explain allegations that they’re not cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation because they fear President Trump. The three senators — Robert Menendez of New Jersey, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Richard Durbin of Illinois...
Advanced U.S. missile system arrives in Ukraine, Kiev confirms
The Ukrainian army has received the first tranche of a large shipment of advanced U.S. anti-tank missile systems under a weapons pact inked between Washington and Kiev in March. The first deliveries of the the FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank missile, the shoulder-fired weapon is armed with a so-called “fire and forget” … …read...
National Militia compounds problems for Ukraine with Russia fight
KIEV, Ukraine — A dozen men, the oldest just 21, jumped out of a minibus and filed through the main entrance of the ATEK heavy machinery plant in Kiev recently. They were members of the National Militia, a new patriotic organization that has been recruiting only male Ukrainians for the … …read more Source: The Washington...
Ukrainian energy website hacked to display ransom message
The website for Ukraine’s energy and coal ministry was hacked Tuesday to display a message demanding a ransom paid in Bitcoin, but no other government websites or systems were affected, authorities said. Ukrainian cyber police spokeswoman Yulia Kvitko confirmed an incident involving the federal Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry …...
Massive change needed to fix what’s broken in stumbling Ukraine
There were high hopes in Ukraine after the 2014 Maidan Revolution, where “people power” put a pro-Russian president to flight. Three years later, those hopes have pretty much been dashed, a result of the failure of the government of President Petro Poroshenko to rein in corruption and the corrosive effects … …read more...
