Section: The Washington Times (USA)
Ukraine gets U.S. counterinsurgency experts after saying it can’t ‘win the war with blankets’
The Pentagon has dispatched eight military personnel to Kiev this week to provide tips to Ukrainian security forces on counterinsurgency and military planning tactics. Military staff will share with the Ukrainians some of the Pentagon’s planning tactics, techniques and procedures while collecting data on the needs of its security forces,...
Russia, Ukraine in talks on gas as winter looms
BERLIN (AP) — Russia and Ukraine are holding talks to solve their long-running gas dispute as pressure mounts for a solution to head off a winter supply crisis in Ukraine and beyond. Friday’s meeting in Berlin between the Russian and Ukrainian energy ministers, brokered by EU energy commissioner Guenther Oettinger, … …read more...
Obama sells Islamic State strikes to United Nations
Exactly one year after proclaiming that the world was “more stable,” President Obama urged the United Nations Wednesday to confront rising emergencies around the globe, from terrorists rampaging in Syria and Iraq to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to the deadly Ebola epidemic in West Africa. “We come together at a …...
Kiev notes progress on eastern Ukraine cease-fire
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) – Both government troops and pro-Russian rebels began withdrawing heavy artillery in the east of the country, Ukrainian officials said Monday, a significant step toward implementing an effective cease-fire in the region. Col. Andriy Lysenko, spokesman for Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, said...
Russia wants to keep Ukraine off U.N. radar
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — As world leaders gather at the U.N. this week, the U.S. and its European allies are consumed by efforts to blunt the savage advance of the Islamic State group, to end the raging Ebola epidemic and to make progress in nuclear negotiations with Iran. That’s likely … …read more Source: The Washington...
NATO chief: Ukraine has cease-fire ‘in name only’
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) – NATO’s top general said Saturday the two-week-old truce between Ukraine and pro-Russian militants fighting in the country’s east is a “cease-fire in name only,” and he said that by enabling a free flow of weapons and fighters across the border Russia has made it nearly … …read...
Exxon to wind down Russian drilling project
NEW YORK (AP) — Exxon Mobil said Friday that it will stop drilling an exploratory well in Russia’s Kara Sea in compliance with U.S. sanctions against Russia over Russia’s involvement in the Ukraine. Exxon planned to drill the well between August and October. The latest round of sanctions called for … …read more Source: The...
Ukraine president repeats plea for U.S. military aid
Ukraine’s president made a last-ditch plea for lethal weaponry during an award ceremony in Washington on Thursday evening. Petro Poroshenko, the country’s newly elected leader, said that he has been pressuring the U.S. to provide Ukraine with weaponry because he is concerned that Kiev may not have the means to … …read more...
Putin says he could have troops inside Poland ‘in two days’: report
Russian President Vladimir Putin has taken warlike rhetoric to a new level, threatening to send troops into a number of NATO countries, including Poland, an influential German newspaper reported Thursday.”If I wanted, in two days I could have Russian troops not only in Kiev, but also in Riga, … …read more Source: The Washington...
Obama pledges U.S. support to Ukraine’s Poroshenko
President Obama told Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko Thursday that the U.S. supports Ukraine “in words and deeds,” as the two leaders dodged reporters’ questions about the administration’s refusal to send heavy weapons to Kiev for its war with Russia. Addressing reporters after their 90-minute meeting in the Oval...
