Black Day for Ukraine Military Ahead of Key Vote
Pro-Russian rebels firing mortar shells and grenades killed 17 Ukrainian soldiers Thursday, the blackest day yet for the military and a dramatic ratcheting up of tensions just three days before an election.
Pro-Russian rebels firing mortar shells and grenades killed 17 Ukrainian soldiers on Thursday, the blackest day yet for the military and a dramatic ratcheting up of tensions just three days before a crunch election. The attacks in the eastern industrial…
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It's not enough for Washington to urge talks from behind the scenes, while insisting in public that only Kyiv can negotiate.
The Kremlin has made military modernization a top priority amid tensions with the West after annexing Crimea in 2014.
Trump's real sin is 'hijacking' the establishment's (failed) foreign policy.
The unclassified record of Trump’s April 21 exchange with Volodymyr Zelenskiy bears scant resemblance to the official summary of the talk.
Among those released by Ukraine was separatist Volodymyr Tsemakh, linked to the 2014 shoot-down of a Malaysian airliner that killed 298.
TD Original
Taking the temperature of freedom of expression in wartime Russia.
Military
It's not enough for Washington to urge talks from behind the scenes, while insisting in public that only Kyiv can negotiate.
The Kremlin has made military modernization a top priority amid tensions with the West after annexing Crimea in 2014.
Trump's real sin is 'hijacking' the establishment's (failed) foreign policy.
The unclassified record of Trump’s April 21 exchange with Volodymyr Zelenskiy bears scant resemblance to the official summary of the talk.
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