Polls show President Vladimir Putin’s rating is falling though it remains high relative to other Russian institutions; the reason is a slow but steady loss of faith in state TV and switch to Internet news.
Putin and Obama traded ‘cold stares’ as they met on the margins of the APEC meeting in Lima. Putin said strikes were ‘permissible’ on NATO sites that ‘threaten Russia’.
US President Barack Obama spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin about the prospects of peace in Ukraine, but the ceasefire is not holding
One Ukrainian soldier and one civilian woman were wounded in shelling in southeastern Ukraine today.
Ilya Bogdanov had defected to Ukraine in 2014.
In the Donbass, one Ukrainian soldier was killed and another wounded.
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Even before the election of Donald Trump, the West’s unity against Russian aggression was starting to break
Two Ukrainian soldiers were wounded in the south of the Donetsk region yesterday.
Heavy fighting continued in southeastern Ukraine today, on par with the escalation in the last week, with 6 Ukrainian soldiers wounded in Avdeyevka, northwest of Donetsk. There were unconfirmed reports of 3 Russia-backed fighters killed and 2 wounded.
