Section: News & Summaries
No Easy Outs for Putin: US Presidential Candidates United on Ukraine
Ukraine will remain at the heart of the conflict between the US and Russia beyond the 2016 presidential election. In the polls, Americans are united on Ukraine; the majority of respondents support increased sanctions on the Kremlin. All of the major presidential candidates, save Senator Rand Paul, take a tough approach with Moscow and support...
US to suspend the anti-dumping duties for Ukraine – Minister of Economy
The USA is ready to suspend the anti-dumping duties that were imposed on Ukraine in 2007 as Ukraine wasn’t a member of the WTO, and bought gas at a discounted price. Recently the situation changed and everything is going to final cancellation of the duties. As reported Economic Development and Trade Minister of Ukraine Aivaras Abromavicius...
US starts training Ukraine forces
US paratroopers have started training Ukrainian government troops, angering Moscow as the conflict continues. …read more Source:...
Guard on trial for murder of 300 000
Former death camp guard Oskar Gröning has declared he is ready to speak about the horrors of Auschwitz. ||| Berlin – He watched his fellow SS men kill children with their bare hands and saw Jews being herded into the gas chambers of Auschwitz, but former death camp guard Oskar Gröning has always denied ultimate responsibility for the...
National Security and Defense Council: Russia-backed militants violate ceasefire regime 50 times, use heavy weapons
Kyiv, April 19, 2015. Pro-Russian Militants have violated ceasefire 50 times yesterday; over one third of provocations were conducted with the use of weapons banned by Minsk agreements, including 120-mm mortars and 122-mm artillery pieces. Militants also fired from tanks three times. View map in full size Shyrokyne and Talakivka towns in the...
FBI head’s Holocaust remarks rile Poland
Poland summons US ambassador over article written by FBI’s director on Poland’s alleged responsibility for the Holocaust ||| Warsaw – Poland has summoned the United States’ ambassador in Warsaw over an article written by a top US intelligence official on Poland’s alleged responsibility for the Holocaust during World...
Pro-Russian terrorists continue to shell at civilians in Eastern Ukraine
Russian-backed militants shelled at civilians and tried to enter the village Triokhizbenka in Novoaidar Raion, Luhansk Oblast. In Triokhizbenka battle three Ukrainian soldiers and two civilians were wounded and the roof of one private house was destroyed. PHOTO: Henadiy Moskal’s official website Triokhizbenka battle lasted two hours on...
Lenin’s monument was pulled down in Kramatorsk, Donetsk Region
Lenin’s monument was toppled from the central square of the city Kramatorsk, Donetsk Oblast, in Eastern Ukraine. The monument was removed during the rally ‘Kramatorsk is Ukraine’ where gathered thousands of activists on Thursday, April 16, 2015. This city is famous because of Battle of Kramatorsk (from 12 April until 5 July 2014), the...
Putin ready to work with USA
Russia has key interests in common with the USA and needs to work with it on a common agenda, President Vladimir Putin said. ||| Moscow- Russia has key interests in common with the United States and needs to work with it on a common agenda, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday in a television interview. In his comments to the...
Gen. Petr Pavel, NATO’s Military Committee
Gen. Petr Pavel, new head of NATO’s Military Committee, answers a question during an interview with The Associated Press in Prague, Czech Republic, Wednesday, April 15, 2015. Pavel said that the western military alliance has to convince the public it has the means and will to confront Russia. A Czech general in line for a top NATO post says...