Britain and its allies are “highly unlikely” to send troops to defend Ukraine if Russia invades the country, the UK’s defence secretary has said. “We shouldn’t kid people we would,” Ben Wallace told the Spectator magazine. “The Ukrainians are aware of that.” Russia has moved thousands of troops near Ukraine’s eastern borders, leading Western powers…
(L-R) Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky, France’s Emmanuel Macron, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Germany’s Angela Merkel at the Élysée Palace in Paris – EPA Ukraine and Russia have agreed to implement a “full and comprehensive” ceasefire in eastern Ukraine by the end of 2019, after top-level talks. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky met face…
“This won’t be another Crimea,” the head of Ukraine’s navy told me when I spoke to him about the situation in the Sea of Azov six weeks ago. I’d just come back from a trip to Ukraine’s industrial port of Mariupol and had spent the night on board a coastguard vessel. In spite of Commander…