Ukraine News
Wed, 02 Feb 2022 17:19:15 +0000US Tells Families of Govt Employees in Belarus to Leave
The United States told the families of its government employees in Belarus to leave the country, the State Department said Monday, as fears grow of a Russian invasion of neighboring Ukraine. The order came hours after Washington and Moscow clashed ov...
Wed, 02 Feb 2022 16:48:34 +0000Pentagon Announces Imminent Deployment of 3,000 Troops to Eastern Europe
The Pentagon announced on Feb. 2 that it would deploy 3,000 troops to Romania and Poland within days in response to Russia’s unwillingness to de-escalate its vast military build-up on Ukraine’s eastern border. The 3,000 troops to be deployed are ...
Wed, 02 Feb 2022 16:41:25 +0000UK Diplomacy ‘Worthless’: Russian UN Official
A senior Russian official at the United Nations on Wednesday slammed British diplomacy, just hours before Boris Johnson speaks to Vladimir Putin to try to defuse the Ukraine crisis. “There is always room for diplomacy, but frankly, we don̵...
Wed, 02 Feb 2022 15:58:00 +0000Getting Along With The Adversary: Brezhnev and Kissinger
Authentic Histories Well, one wise man was right when he said the following: it is the voice used to say words rather than the words themselves that matters in politics. Do you doubt it? Here is an authentic story that is not known to the wider publi...
Wed, 02 Feb 2022 14:31:04 +0000US Says that Bolstering Ukraine’s Cyber Defenses Will Take Time
The United States is working with Ukraine to bolster its cybersecurity defenses, having sent teams of experts to Ukraine in recent weeks. But reports coming back are that little can be done in the near term to harden the country’s cyber defense aga...
Wed, 02 Feb 2022 14:28:27 +0000Erdogan Seeks Payoff from Russia-US Clash on Ukraine
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will try to leverage his strategic position in NATO and his rapport with Russia’s Vladimir Putin when he visits Kyiv on Thursday in a bid to head off war in Ukraine. The veteran Turkish leader hopes mediat...
Wed, 02 Feb 2022 13:27:37 +0000Historical Sparkling Winemaker Sold in Odesa for $6.2 Million
The State Property Fund of Ukraine has sold the Odesa Sparkling Wine Plant Champagne Winery for UAH 195.3 million. Open auctions for the privatization of the property of the Odesa plant of sparkling wines were held on the electronic platform Prozorro...
Wed, 02 Feb 2022 12:40:26 +0000Canadian Lawmakers Debate Ukraine as Defense Minister Concludes Visit
While Canadian Defense Minister Anita Anand concluded her two-day visit to Ukraine on January 31, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau participated in a special debate about Ukraine in the House of Commons, which ran to almost five hours. “Canada has a lo...
Wed, 02 Feb 2022 12:23:16 +0000Orban Pledges Cooperation with Putin in Storm of Ukraine Crisis
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban met with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin on Feb. 1, pledging cooperation with Moscow for years to come in a trip criticised by his EU allies. Orban travelled to Moscow despite Hungary’s opposit...
Wed, 02 Feb 2022 12:14:45 +0000The UN Security Council Meeting on Ukraine – an Unnoticed Victory
The meeting of the Security Council on Jan. 31 did not attract much media attention in Ukraine. However, it was quite a remarkable event, the importance of which is yet to be assessed. The U.S., in coordination with the delegation of Ukraine and ot...