Ukraine News
Sun, 20 Feb 2022 08:51:13 +0000Latest on Threat of Russian Attack on Ukraine
French President Emmanuel Macron will call Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Sunday to try to avert what Western powers predict will be an imminent invasion of Ukraine. Over the weekend, civilians were evacuated from increasingly barraged front line r...
Sun, 20 Feb 2022 08:32:58 +0000US reaffirms Russia could attack Ukraine ‘at any time’
Russia could launch an attack on Ukraine “at any time,” the White House reaffirmed Saturday, as Western politicians gathered in Munich to discuss the crisis. US Press Secretary Jen Psaki said President Joe Biden was due to hold a rare Sun...
Sat, 19 Feb 2022 20:48:35 +0000Ukrainian President Makes Historic Speech in Munich (English Translation)
President Zelensky delivered an impassioned and forthright speech at the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 19 – one of the most important of his political career and in Ukraine’s history as an independent state. He appealed to the conscien...
Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:58:50 +0000Zelensky: Ukraine Deserves More Support To Rebuff Russian Threat
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday, Feb. 19, that his country was a “shield” against Russia and deserved more support in the face of a feared Russian invasion, as Moscow test-fired nuclear-capable missiles in a defiant s...
Sat, 19 Feb 2022 13:14:46 +0000Celebrated Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Fends Off Interference from Education Minister
Unidentified masked men entered the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (KMA) on Jan. 27 during elections to name a new rector at the centuries-old educational institution. It was the fifth attempt to hold an election in two years amid the global coronavirus pandemi...
Sat, 19 Feb 2022 12:18:17 +0000Former Ambassador Taylor Advocates Greater Support for Ukraine
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, William Taylor, has called on Washington to send more military weapons systems to Ukraine. In comments on Feb. 17, he also said that Ukraine needs much more financial and economic support from the West at such a cri...
Sat, 19 Feb 2022 11:22:11 +0000Breaking: Russian troops ‘poised to strike’ Ukraine: US defence chief
Russian troops on Ukraine’s border are “uncoiling” and “poised to strike”, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said on Saturday during a visit to Lithuania. “They are uncoiling and are now poised to strike,”...
Sat, 19 Feb 2022 10:32:38 +0000Foreign Minister Baerbock Clarifies Germany’s Fuzzy Foreign Policy
Berlin, or rather Germany’s new Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock, has finally begun using the proper language to describe the current international stand-off between East and West over Ukraine’s fate. On Feb. 18 the minister tweeted on the Twi...
Sat, 19 Feb 2022 10:24:42 +0000Russian parliament’s call for independence for occupied Ukrainian regions sparks alarm
Possible Russian recognition of Moscow’s puppet “republics” in Ukraine’s Donbas is threatening to derail an already fragile peace process, as fears grow of large-scale conflict in eastern Ukraine. Tensions between the West a...
Sat, 19 Feb 2022 08:23:08 +0000Breaking: Russian Puppet ‘Leaders’ in Eastern Ukraine Announce ‘General Mobilization’
The leaders of the Russian-occupied enclaves in eastern Ukraine – the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk “People’s Republics” (DPR and LPR) – declared on Saturday, Feb. 19, general mobilizations in their respective regions, AFP reports. Th...