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More Than 6,000 Dead in Ukraine
The United Nations said on Monday that more than 6,000 people have now been killed in eastern Ukraine after almost a year of fighting between government forces and Russian-backed separatists. The report from the U.N. Human Rights Office recorded 5,665 deaths from mid-April 2014 to mid-February of this year, as well as 13,961 wounded individuals....
U.S. Allies Left in the Dark
U.S. allies are raising concerns about what they say is unwillingness on the part of the Obama administration to share vital intelligence that could prove decisive in conflicts in Europe and the Middle East. The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that U.S. officials degrade satellite images of the positions of Russian-backed separatists...
Tens of Thousands March to Protest Killing of Putin Critic
Tens of thousands of Russians took to the streets of Moscow and St. Petersburg on Sunday carrying pictures of the murdered politician Boris Nemtsov and placards reading “I am not afraid.” In Moscow, as the crowd approached the Kremlin, it chanted “Russia without Putin,” and “Putin, leave!” according to the BBC. Boris Nemtsov, a former deputy...
Arming Ukraine: Where the 2016 Hopefuls Stand
At a briefing in Washington last week, NATO’s top military commander offered a grim assessment of the conflict in eastern Ukraine. Fighting is “getting worse every day” between Ukrainian government forces and separatists backed by Russian troops, finances, and heavy weapons, Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove said on Capitol Hill and at the...
NATO Commander Urges Pressure on Moscow Over Missile Treaty Breach
The commander of the U.S. European Command and NATO is calling for pressuring Russia against deploying new cruise missiles that violate the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty. “We have to change Mr. Putin’s decision calculus as to whether he uses these [missiles] or brings these forward or deploys these,” Air Force Gen. Philip M....
Russian Media Reports Suggest Variety of Responses to Murder of Boris Nemtsov
Kremlin-aligned media outlets were quick to deflect blame for the murder of Boris Nemtsov, a leading figure in the Russian opposition, from Vladimir Putin and his allies, claiming that killing Nemtsov does not benefit Putin and presenting other possible alternative explanations for the murder. Nemtsov, Russia’s former deputy prime minister...
Susan Rice Laughs Uncontrollably When Charlie Rose Mentions Ukraine’s ‘Humiliating’ Retreat
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This One Paragraph Explains the (Partially Self-Inflicted) Tragedy of Ukraine
The situation in Ukraine right now is pretty grim. The European-brokered “ceasefire” is joke, even if the Obama administration continues to hold out hope. Russian separatists launched an offensive against the town of Debaltseve, forcing Ukrainian troops to retreat. The State Department, for its part, boldly affirmed the Ukrainian...
Fighting Rages in East Ukraine Despite Bid to Revive Truce
By Gleb Garanich and Anton Zverev ARTEMIVSK/VUHLEHIRSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – Fighting raged in eastern Ukraine on Thursday despite European efforts to resurrect a stillborn ceasefire, a day after pro-Russian separatists spurned the truce by forcing thousands of government troops out of a strategic town. Western nations are refusing to give up on a...
Obama Administration Affirms Ukraine’s ‘Right’ to Surrender Territory to Putin
Despite a European-brokered “ceasefire,” the war in eastern Ukraine rages on. Russian separatists continue their assault on the city of Debaltseve, forcing the Ukrainian army to withdraw its troops. And yet, the U.S. State Department continues to hold out hope that the ceasefire will work. “We don’t consider it dead,” said spokeswoman Jen...
