Category: Ukraine
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Dutch Court Finds Pro-Russian Separatists Guilty in Downing of MH17, Gives Life Sentences; Free Europe Bulgarian Service, mid-November 2022
What was so compelling about this article was not so much that justice is finally being served, although its proverbial long arm cannot extend so far as to actualize it by plucking the guilty parties out of their haven in Russia, or that a verdict has been forthcoming after so many intervening years; rather, that…
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Russia Agrees to Take Rubles for Natural Gas Deliveries to Türkiye, Early August 2022
The Greek language internet site News Break, on August 11, 2022 carried the following news item that describes an agreement reached between Moscow and Ankara to allow Türkiye to pay rubles for a certain portion of Russian natural gas imports. The article also mentions the two countries’ plan to significantly increase bilateral trade turnover. The…
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Turkey Continues Peace Initiative To End Russia-Ukraine Conflict, mid-March 2022
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu met with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on March 16, 2022, in Moscow to discuss finding a peaceful solution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Prior to their discussions, the two foreign ministers held a press conference, at which Lavrov admitted that the countries had some differences of opinion, yet added that…
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Kazakhstan Distances Itself from Russian Military Activities in Former Soviet Sphere of Influence
Russian independent newspaper, Novaya Gazeta (NG), on Saturday, February 26, 2022, reported that around 200 persons had demonstrated that day in the center of Almaty, Kazakhstan’s capital, against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine which had begun two days earlier. Telling, the article noted, was that no one was arrested, although the demonstrators were said to be…
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Foreign Jihadists and Mercenaries Said To Be Fighting Russians in Ukraine, early March 2022
A Greek report posted to The World News platform, based on Syrian News Agency (SANA) and Al Mayadeen satellite media network information, noted on March 9, 2022, that approximately 450 Salafist jihadists had left Idlib, Syria, and entered Ukraine for the purpose of fighting against Russian forces as well as pro-Russian non-combatants there. The jihadists…
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German Chancellor’s Last-Ditch Attempt at Diplomacy Fails To Sway Putin, mid-February 2022
The takeaways from Der Tagesspiegel’s (The Daily Mirror) February 16, 2022, article of German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz’ meeting in Moscow with Russian President, Vladimir Putin, are: Despite Putin’s willingness to hold discussions with various world leaders on the Ukraine crisis, it is obvious from the arguments he put forth to Scholz that he had already…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin Justifies Ukraine Incursion, 24 Feb 2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to the world on February 24, 2022, in a televised speech, in which he faulted the aggressive behavıor of the West, i.e., the western alliances of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union (EU) as the reason for his decision to invade Ukraine. Of course, he was…
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Amid Growing Tensions with Russia, German Government Calls for Germans to Leave Ukraine
The following is a German News Agency (dpa) report, updated as of February 12, 2022, with a timestamp of 18:21. Because the report is straightforward, with little repetition, and because the information contains very recent material regarding the preparations of various countries for what was thought to be an eventual, sooner-rather-than-later invasion of Ukraine by…
The Dragon is Slain 