Ukraine

Russia is menacing Ukraine’s borders, China is sending increasingly ominous signals over Taiwan and Iran is accelerating its uranium enrichment to unprecedented levels. The big picture: Ukraine, Taiwan and Iran’s nuclear program always loomed large on the menu of potential crises President Biden could face. But over the last several…

/ Europe Issued on: 18/04/2021 - 08:57 French President Emmanuel Macron giving a statement at the Élysée Palace in Paris on February 4, 2021. © Ludovic Marin, AFP French President Emmanuel Macron said the international community has to "define clear red lines with Russia," in an interview extract released Saturday,…

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RUSSIA has deployed 50 warplanes to the Black Sea as the US warns commercial airlines to avoid the Crimea and eastern Ukraine regions. PUBLISHED: 19:36, Sat, Apr 17, 2021 | UPDATED: 19:36, Sat, Apr 17, 2021 Link copied US-Russia relations at their 'worst since Cold War' warns expert Sign up…

LOS ANGELES – BELLATOR MMA’s Welterweight World Champion Douglas Lima (32-8) will defend his 170-pound title against the undefeated and top-ranked Yaroslav Amosov (25-0) in the main event of BELLATOR MMA 260 on Friday, June 11 at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn. The event will be televised live on SHOWTIME at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT.  In addition to the…

The Russian Navy's Ropucha-class landing ship Kondopoga passes through the Bosphorus on its way to the Black Sea, in Istanbul, Turkey April 17, 2021. REUTERS/Yoruk Isik Two Russian warships transited the Bosphorus en route to the Black Sea on Saturday and 15 smaller vessels completed a transfer to the sea…

Podcast Are human rights going backwards? Is Russia squaring up to Ukraine again? And why are we censoring maps? by The Week team 16 Apr 2021 Olly Mann and The Week delve behind the headlines and debate what really matters from the past seven days. In this week’s episode, we…

The first batch of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Ukraine on Friday, the health ministry said. The batch of 117,000 doses, provided under the global COVAX scheme, will be given to nursing home residents and staff, emergency workers and border guards, it said in a statement. Ukraine has already received…

Author of the article: KYIV — The leaders of Ukraine, France and Germany will hold three-way talks on Friday about Ukraine’s standoff with Russia over the conflict in the eastern Donbass region, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a video released to media on Thursday. Zelenskiy will travel to Paris to…

Author of the article: WASHINGTON — The head of U.S. forces in Europe said on Thursday that there was a low to medium risk of a Russian invasion of Ukraine in the next few weeks. Asked by a lawmaker about the chances of an invasion in that timeframe, General Tod…