أرشيف الوسم : Ukraine

By Richard Silverstein – Tikun Olam Galey Tzahal (Army Radio) reported today that Israel welcomed with open arms two Ukrainian oligarchs wanted by Interpol for serious crimes.  The suspects, Yuri Borisov and Eduard Stavitsky, are suspected of embezzlement and money-laundering in Ukraine.  They flew into Ben Gurion airport and received Israeli entry visas.  Borisov’s visa was approved for the purposes of medical treatment, …

On Friday, Russia criticized the EU for adopting new sanctions against it despite the week-old ceasefire agreement between separatist forces and Ukraine. “We believe that adopting such decisions at the very moment when the peace process in Ukraine is gaining strength — we are hoping — … this means choosing a path towards undermining the peace process”, Russian Foreign Minister …

On Thursday, US President Barack Obama said that the US will intensify its sanctions in energy, finance and defense sectors to punish Russia for its “illegal actions” in Ukraine, as the EU said that it could lift the new sanctions if the ceasefire in Ukraine continues. In his statement, Obama said that the move will worsen the Kremlin’s deepening economic …

>On Monday, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko visited the flashpoint city of Mariupol, where sporadic conflict has rattled the three-day-old ceasefire between rebel forces and the government. The highly-symbolic visit to the port city came just before EU officials called for a new meeting to decide on sanctions against Russia if the truce fails. Poroshenko wore military attire for the visit …

On Friday, the UN Security Council demanded a full, international and independent probe into the reported shooting down of a Malaysian Airlines jet over Ukraine, with all the 298 passengers on board reported dead. “The members of the Security Council called for a full, thorough and independent international investigation into the incident in accordance with international civil aviation guidelines and …

On Friday, the Ukrainian military reported that it had lost 23 soldiers in clashes in eastern Ukraine that threaten to shatter slim hopes of  truce in the deadliest conflict in Europe in decades. The official spokesman for the assault on eastern Ukraine added that 93 soldiers had sustained “wounds and contusions of varying severity”. According to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, …

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Ukrainian president-elect Petro Poroshenko on Friday during the D-Day anniversary held in Normandy, and called for an end to the violence and bloodshed on both sides, his spokesman said. Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s spokesman, was quoted as saying, “Putin and Poroshenko called for the soonest possible end to bloodshed in southeastern Ukraine, and to military …

British Prime Minister David Cameron has told Russian President Vladimir Putin to bring Russia’s military activity in Ukraine to an end. The British Prime Minister is the first Western leader to meet Putin after Russia annexed Crimea. Putin has been cold-shouldered by the US and its allies since the annexation. Vladimir Putin met with David Cameron on Thursday in Paris; …

Sergei Lavrov, the foreign affairs minister of the Russia, which leads the “axis of evil” in the world, said that it is inconceivable and illegal to hold elections in Ukraine while a faction of the Ukrainian people, i.e. the Russian-speaking minority, is under an armed threat. Bashar Al-Assad’s criminal regime has killed more than 200,000 Syrians, including 60,000 women and …

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday visited the Russian naval base in Crimea for the first time after the peninsula was annexed by Moscow. President Vladimir Putin was in Sevastopol to review the Russian ships in the port. Russian television aired live footage of Vladimir Putin standing on the deck of a white ship going past at least ten other …