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Ukrainian Forces Quit Besieged Town After Rebel Assault
By Gleb Garanich and Anton Zverev ARTEMIVSK/BULAVYNE, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukraine pulled thousands of troops out of an encircled town on Wednesday after a massive assault by pro-Russian rebels, who ignored a new ceasefire to seize the strategic railway junction. The fall of the besieged town of Debaltseve was one of the worst defeats of the war...
Ukraine Says Group of Servicemen Taken Prisoner in Besieged Town of Debaltseve
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s defense ministry said on Tuesday a group of service personnel had been taken prisoner by separatists in the strategic town of Debaltseve where government positions have been under attack from Russian-backed separatists. But, in the same statement, the ministry denied reports by the Russian media and separatists...
Ukraine Truce Fades as Fighting Rages, Arms Pullback Stalls
By Anton Zverev NIKISHINE, Ukraine (Reuters) – Pro-Russian rebels bombarded government troops encircled in east Ukraine on Tuesday and a plan for both sides to pull back their heavy guns stalled, pushing a fragile peace deal closer to collapse. A Reuters witness near the front line said artillery rounds rocked the town of Debaltseve every five...
Putin Calls Timeout
A fragile ceasefire has gone into effect in war-torn Ukraine, after—for the second time in less than six months—a broad but vague and nonbinding agreement was reached in Minsk on Feb. 12. Prodded by French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, and...
Leon Panetta: Obama Not Tough Enough on Putin, U.S. in ‘Whole New Chapter of Cold War’
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Exclusive Photos Show Russian Military in Ukraine Arming Separatists
New photographs exclusively obtained by the Washington Free Beacon reveal that Russian military forces have been more involved in the arming and training of Ukrainian separatist forces than previously disclosed. The often-gruesome photographs clearly display Russian troops entering Ukraine with advanced military hardware and weapons, including...
German Reporter Asks ‘Nobel Laureate Obama’ for His ‘Red Line’ in Ukraine, Obama Dodges
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Ukrainian Authorities, Rebels Evacuate Civilians from Front Line Town
By Aleksandar Vasovic and Gleb Garanich DEBALTSEVE, Ukraine (Reuters) – Convoys of buses carrying many local residents to safety left the besieged town of Debaltseve in eastern Ukraine on Friday as government forces kept up artillery fire to defend their positions against pro-Russian separatists. The two convoys of empty buses, one of around 20...
Hagel Won’t Say If Failure to Arm Ukraine Invites Russia Aggression but It’s ‘A Fair Question’
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America In Retreat
President Obama laid out a defense of his reactionary, retreating foreign policy during his State of the Union address Jan. 20. “My first duty as Commander-in-Chief is to defend the United States of America,” he said. “In doing so–in doing so, the question is not whether America leads in the world, but how. When we make rash decisions, reacting...
