Tag: Russia

MOSCOW, September 3 (RIA Novosti) – Ukraine plans to build a wall along its border with Russia in six months, the Kiev government said in its National Renewal plan released Wednesday. “The Wall Project to build and equip a reinforced barrier between Ukraine and Russia [should be completed] within six months,” the plan says. Earlier the same day, Ukrainian Prime […]

(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – Nikolai Litovkin, RBTH – August 29, 2014) Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has declared that Russia has invaded his country. The EU and the U.S., however, are in no rush to provide military help to Ukraine, limiting themselves to sanctions against Russia. Meanwhile, Moscow has dismissed the latest Western accusations and satellite images released […]

MOSCOW, August 30 (RIA Novosti) – Self-defense forces in southeastern Ukraine are using the captured Soviet equipment that they got at the abandoned warehouses and captured Ukrainian forces’ equipment depots, while they do not receive anything from Russia, Russia’s Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said Saturday in an interview with Slovak television. “When the USSR collapsed, the Ukrainian territory was […]

(Business New Europe – bne.eu – Graham Stack in Volnovakha, Ukraine – September 2, 2014) As Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko promises dismissals among top security officials following battlefield defeats, investigators identified two top-ranking sets of brothers that they fear may be sabotaging Ukraine’s “anti-terrorist operation” against pro-Russian separatists. Poroshenko promised far-reaching personnel changes on September 1 at the very top […]

(Business New Europe – bne.eu – Graham Stack in Bezimmine, Ukraine – August 28, 2014) The forces of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic – comprising irregular Russian-backed rebels and regular Russian troops – are free to advance from the border town of Novoazovsk to Ukraine’s second largest port of Mariuopol, warn fighters of Ukraine’s irregular Dnipro battalion, which is based […]

MOSCOW, August 29 (RIA Novosti) – Moscow will help in negotiations between the warring sides in Ukraine and is taking steps toward a de-escalation of the conflict, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Friday. “Russia will consistently help in creating the conditions for transferring the situation into a negotiation channel through strengthening trust between the warring sides, taking […]

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Anna Dolgov – August 29, 2014) UNITED NATIONS – As the West lined up to condemn Russia for what Ukraine has called “an invasion” of its eastern regions, Russia at the UN Security Council urged it to keep out of its “close relations” with its neighbor in a show of increasing frustration that dimmed hopes […]

(RFE/RL – rferl.org – August 28, 2014) RFE/RL’s Andrei Babitsky is in Donetsk and has sent this footage of fierce fighting on the streets of the eastern Ukrainian city this afternoon. (WARNING: Graphic content, including footage of dead bodies) Article from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty – rferl.org – © 2014 RFE/RL, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Article also appeared at http://www.rferl.org/media/video/26555171.html    

(Business New Europe – bne.eu – August 29, 2014) Ukraine reported terrible economic results this week leaving some commentators to say that the country is only weeks away from running out of money entirely. The results also suggest that the IMF sponsored rescue package plan was overly optimistic and that its standby agreement will have to be renegotiated. Ukraine’s GDP […]