The war in eastern Ukraine will end only when Ukraine regains Donbass and Crimea. This was stated by the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko in an interview with the STB TV channel. “The war will end when Ukraine regains Donbass and Crimea. And how long will it take?...
The commander of NATO ground forces in Europe, General Philip Breedlove, said that Russia is using a “silence regime” in eastern Ukraine to regroup troops and a possible offensive. According to the general, the Pentagon was caught off guard by the latest Russian movements in Ukraine. Speaking before the Armed Forces Committee...
It is beneficial for Russian President Vladimir Putin to leave the conflict in Ukraine "frozen", writes columnist Leonid Bershidsky in an article for Bloomberg. Western money is returning to the Russian stock and bond markets, and this is primarily due to the calm in the East of Ukraine, the author notes ...
55 new immigrants from eastern Ukraine arrived in Israel on Tuesday. This is the fourth flight for families from the war zone organized by the Friendship Fund (Keren Edidut). Thanks to this organization, over the past 4 months 615 have arrived in the Jewish state ...
A message on the organization's website says that the base was surrounded without warning by paratroopers accompanied by armored vehicles. They demanded that the Right Sector fighters surrender their weapons. There are checkpoints around the base. The leader of the organization, Dmitry Yarosh, said that he could not promptly contact the general staff...
“There has been progress since Minsk, the ceasefire has essentially been respected and heavy weapons have essentially been withdrawn,” French President Hollande said after meeting President Putin in Armenia on Friday. “Truly amazing,” comments a Wall Street columnist...
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has threatened to introduce martial law in the country if armed supporters of the self-proclaimed Donbass republics attack Ukrainian security forces. In an interview with the Ukraina TV channel, the president said that in the event of aggression from the militia, he would immediately introduce...
The Ukrainian government announced the signing of a military-technical cooperation agreement with NATO. The Armed Forces of Ukraine will approach the standards of the Alliance, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said. “The government signs a support cooperation agreement with NATO. This is an agreement between the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and...
In an interview published Monday in business newspaper Verslo zinios, the diplomat said that when deciding on military support, individual countries must weigh Moscow's possible actions responsibly. “As far as I understand, the US administration is concerned about what the consequences will be if...
The rebellious regions of eastern Ukraine are not at all united by any common idea. This is a hodgepodge: there are Cossacks, dreaming of a self-governing freeman, and radical nationalists who are building the "Russian world", and monarchists, and anarchists, and national Bolsheviks, and the extreme right and the extreme left. Everyone leads their own ...