Tag: Barack Obama

Putin ‘Will Not Advance Further’ In Ukraine, Kyiv Journalist Says

February 17, 2015

Staunton, February 16 – Many in Ukraine and elsewhere are fearful that Vladimir Putin will expand his aggression into other regions of Ukraine, but, according to Ivan Yakovina of Novoye Vremya, he does not at least at the present time have “the strength, the motive or the opportunity” to do so. There are six compelling […]

Ukraine Live Day 351: US Plays Down Talk Of Supplying Arms To Ukraine

February 3, 2015

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Ukraine Live Day 350: Donetsk Separatists Announce Mobilisation As US Mulls Military Aid For Ukraine

February 2, 2015

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Putin Trading in Death Because He has Nothing Else, Portnikov Says

January 27, 2015

Staunton, January 25 -Russian actions at the Donetsk airport last week and in Mariupol January 24 show that “except for military blackmail and murders, Putin has nothing to offer either Western leaders or Ukraine,” a conclusion that Vitaly Portnikov argues should compel both to re-examine their willingness to negotiate with him. Ukraine’s defensive actions need […]

Russia’s Emerging Holy War

January 26, 2015

At the beginning of this week, President Barack Obama explained that Russia, hit hard by Western sanctions, is losing in its confrontation with the West and NATO caused by Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Ukraine. In his State of the Union address, Obama displayed similar swag and bluster against both the Kremlin and Congressional Republicans, seemingly […]

Ukraine Live Day 338: Ukraine Agrees To New Withdrawal After Donetsk Airport Captured

January 21, 2015

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Kadyrov Calls for Purge of ‘Traitors in the Kremlin’

December 23, 2014

Staunton, December 23 – Chechen head Ramzan Kadyrov says that “traitors in the Kremlin, government and other power structures,” people who do not carry out the decisions of President Vladimir Putin, must be purged from office in order to improve the economy and block Western efforts to destabilize Russia. In an interview published in Izvestia yesterday, […]

Putin Reopens Possibility for Preemptive Attack on the West, Zhilin Says

December 21, 2014

Staunton, December 21 – Aleksandr Zhilin, head of the Moscow Center for the Study of Applied Problems and a leading Russian military commentator, says that Vladimir Putin has now changed the country’s military doctrine in such a way that it will now allow for consideration of a pre-emptive military attack on the West in response […]

Ukraine Live Day 304: EU Not To Relax Sanctions As Shelling Continues In Lugansk Region

December 18, 2014

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Ukraine Live Day 303: Poroshenko, Putin, Merkel and Hollande Speak, Minsk Talks By End Of Week

December 17, 2014

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