Archives: February 2017

Two Ukrainian soldiers were wounded and 4 civilians, including 3 teenagers as heavy fighting continues in eastern Ukraine. The ‘Normandy Quartet’ announced yet another ceasefire to go into effect Monday, February 20.

Three Ukrainian soldiers and one civilian were killed, with ten more soldiers and two civilians wounded.

The Donetsk police report that nine homes in Avdeyevka were damaged by shelling last night.

Both the leaders of Ingushetia and Chechnya have provided details on the military police battalions that have been sent from their republics to serve in Syria.

Russia-backed militants made 52 attacks on Ukrainian positions in the last day. There were no casualties.

Grigory Khanin, a Siberian professor, and Dmitry Fomin, a Novosibirsk graduate system say that in many cases, official Russian data does not correspond to reality, and Russia thus lags farther behind the West than admitted.

The apparent collapse of Putin’s calculations that the new US Administration he so openly backed would deliver a “big deal” may in fact make the Kremlin leader more dangerous.

Aides of President Donald Trump repeatedly had contact with Russian intelligence, current and former US officials say. The US has accused Russian fighter jets of buzzing its ship; Russia denies.

Michael Flynn has resigned, but the White House’s explanation of the incident answers few questions

LIVE UPDATES: President Donald Trump has asked national security advisor Michael Flynn to resign after FBI intercepts of his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the US indicated he gave “incomplete information” and withheld that the lifting of sanctions were discussed. The US says a Russian cruise missile is in violation of a 1987 arms-control […]