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Ukrainian Pilot Captured By Russia Returns Home After Receiving Pardon From Putin
Ukrainian military pilot Nadiya Savchenko arrived home in Kiev on Wednesday after nearly two years in a Russian jail, part of a prisoner swap in which two Russians held in Ukraine were returned to Moscow.Handing over Savchenko, whose release had been demanded by Western governments and who has become a national hero in Ukraine, is likely to ease...
Treating PTSD In Ukraine: Hero’s Companion
Ukraine was in many ways unprepared for the war against the Russian-backed separatists of the DNR in the country’s east. Its army, after years of mismanagement and corruption, was left with just 6,000 combat-ready troops, and its hospitals had never had to deal with the kinds of horrific injuries sustained by both soldiers and civilians....
The Struggle To Find Ukraine’s Missing Soldiers
During the course of the war in eastern Ukraine, hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers have been either captured as POWs or gone missing during the fighting. During the battle of Ilovaisk in August 2014, Ukrainian soldiers became encircled by Russian regular soldiers and separatist fighters. After intense negotiations the Ukrainians eventually managed...
Islamic Countries Are Blocking LGBT Groups From A UN Meeting On AIDS
More than 20 nonprofit groups, most of which work explicitly with gay and transgender communities, are being blocked from participating in a major UN session on AIDS by a coalition of Islamic countries, as well as Russia and two additional African member states.The 2016 High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS will begin next month in New York. Writing...
Navy Releases Full Video Footage Of Russian Fighter Jets Buzzing US Warship In The Baltic
The US Navy has released about a dozen videos that show Russian fighter jets and a helicopter “buzzing” a US Navy destroyer in the Baltic Sea.The incidents occurred over a two-day period last month, and were first documented in a series of short clips released on YouTube by the Navy. In the newly released footage, which the Navy made...
Donald Trump Says He’d Meet With Kim Jong-un To Talk About North Korea’s Nukes
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is willing to talk to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to try to stop Pyongyang’s nuclear program, Trump told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday.In a wide-ranging discussion, Trump also said he disapproved of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s actions in eastern Ukraine, called for a...
Ukraine’s Foreign Fighters Battle For Citizenship
On both sides of the war in Ukraine, foreign fighters have flocked in their thousands to take part, many of them from the former Soviet Union.Whilst thousands of regular Russian soldiers and volunteers have fought alongside the DNR and LNR separatists, a number of Russians and Belorussians have also fought for the Ukrainians. With the worst of...
World Leaders Gather In London For Anti-Corruption Summit — But There’s An ‘Elephant In The Room’
“Welcome to our tax haven,” a suited man wearing a bowler hat and proffering a wad of fake 100 pound bills said cheerily to a tourist in central London. “I’m not from here,” the German woman responded with confusion. “I don’t know anything about your tax haven.”The stunt the man was taking part in...
The US Is Switching On An $800 Missile Defense System In Eastern Europe
The United States switches on an $800 million missile shield in Romania on Thursday, a step it sees as vital to defend itself and Europe from so-called rogue states, but which the Kremlin says is aimed at countering Russia’s nuclear capabilities in the event of war.At the remote Deveselu air base in Romania, senior US and NATO officials...
Canada Continues Making Nice With The World By Lifting Sanctions On Authoritarian Belarus
The latest stop on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s charm offensive is the former Soviet outpost of Belarus, a state often described as “Europe’s last dictatorship.”The Trudeau government announced that they would be following the lead of America and Europe by dropping the eastern European state from its main...
