The Russian large landing ship Azov fires missiles during a rehearsal for the Navy Day parade in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, Crimea, July 27, 2017. REUTERS/Pavel Rebrov Tensions between Russia and Ukraine have spiked after Russia fire upon and seized Ukrainian ships on Sunday in the Black Sea. Russia’s military presence in the Black…
Yet another twist in their bizarre relationship. Donald Trump has cancelled a meeting with Vladimir Putin, citing the escalating tensions in Ukraine, just hours after telling reporters it would be “a very good time” to hold it. The US president was due to meet his Russian counterpart during the upcoming summit for the Group of 20 industrialized nations in Argentina this weekend. In tweets…
Moscow (CNN) A meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will go ahead on Saturday on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Argentina, the Kremlin said Thursday. Trump suggested in an interview Tuesday that he might cancel the get-together after Russian ships opened fire on and seized three Ukrainian vessels near Crimea, in…
“Oil is becoming less and less of a reason to stay in the Middle East because we’re producing more oil now than we’ve ever produced,” Trump said. We have reached a point where we don’t have to stay in the Middle East. One reason to stay is Israel,” US president Donald Trump said on…
“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…
Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko, left, welcomes German Chancellor Angela Merkel ahead of their meeting in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) (Efrem Lukatsky) KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel has visited Ukraine, pledging to uphold anti-Russian sanctions for Russian actions in Ukraine. Speaking after Thursday’s talks with Ukrainian President Petro…
The US has increased its military support for Ukraine, which sends a message to Moscow. CNN’s Matthew Chance reports. In Europe, a shadow conflict is capturing headlines: The Salisbury poisonings and the unmasking of alleged Russian agents in the Netherlands suggest a return to Cold War-style spy games between Russia and the West. In Ukraine,…
Facebook announced Tuesday that it had removed more than 650 pages, groups, and accounts for what the social media giant termed “coordinated inauthentic behavior” that originated in Iran. The company also said that, unrelated to the Iran activity, it had removed pages, groups, and accounts “linked to sources the US government has previously identified as…
The announcement Thursday that President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a summit July 16 in Helsinki, Finland is welcome news – though it predictably prompted immediate criticism from Democrats and other Trump opponents. But we can discount the instant opposition. The Trump-haters criticize almost everything the president says and does, no matter what. Sometimes…
Mr Putin’s visit to Austria is his first trip to West Europe for nearly a year Russian President Vladimir Putin has insisted Moscow is not trying to split the European Union. He was speaking hours before arriving in Austria, on his first trip to Western Europe in almost a year. He told Austria’s ORF television…