Archives: February 2017

Six Ukrainian soldiers were wounded yesterday.

A prominent Russian political analyst suspects that Russia is trying to foist on the US an interpretation of the Minsk agreement that places the full onus of implementation on Ukraine.

As Moscow has become more anti-Western, contacts with the Western far right have become more intense and have operated at a high level.

Fighting continues in Ukraine; Power is restored in Avdeyevka; Trump administration’s positions on Ukraine/Russia still muddled

Muslim Migrants, ISIS Militants Link Up with Russia’s Muslims and Threaten “New ‘Green’ Revolution,” Remizov Says 2017-02-06 00:09:36 Staunton, VA, February 5, 2017 – The Russian media is filled with stories about the threat that migrants from the Middle East and returning ISIS fighters pose for European countries, but Moscow has largely ignored the far greater […]

There was a lull in fighting in Avdeyevka, but shelling continued elsewhere, with 3 Ukrainian soldiers killed and 7 wounded. President Donald Trump spoke with Ukrainian Petro Poroshenko on the phone, but the read-outs of the conversation by the two leaders differed.

‘Trump Administration is the Obama Administration on Steroids,’ Russian Analyst Says 2017-02-06 14:52:50 The wild gyrations in Russian expectations about new US President Donald Trump are continuing with the events of February 3 prompting Veronika Krasheninnikova to say that instead of the change Moscow had expected, “the Trump Administration is the Obama Administration on steroids.”  […]

“Russophobia is so deeply rooted in European-American ideology,” Sergey Markov says, that Moscow doesn’t expect new US President Donald Trump to end all sanctions all at once but rather “in a clever fashion” that avoids problems for him and over a significant period of time.

Last night saw heavy military and civilian casualties.

Two Ukrainian soldiers were killed yesterday and 14 wounded.