Tag: Crimea
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We’ll stop military operations immediately in Ukraine only if… – Russia
Russia will immediately stop its military operations if the Ukrainian authorities amend their country’s constitution to abandon their ambition to enter “any bloc,” and recognise the Crimean referendum and the independence of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR).
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Russia Pegs back Ukrainian Armed Forces , Destroys Airbases
Russia’s ground forces on Thursday crossed into Ukraine from several directions, Ukraine’s border guard service said, hours after President Vladimir Putin announced the launch of a major offensive. Russian tanks and other heavy equipment crossed the frontier in several northern regions, as well as from the Kremlin-annexed peninsula of Crimea in the south, the agency…
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PresidentBiden to address Americans on Russia, Ukraine crisis
President Joe Biden will update Americans on Tuesday afternoon on the evolving crisis at Ukraine’s border with Russia. Speaking from the East Room of the White House at 3:30 p.m. ET, Biden is expected to reiterate U.S. commitment to Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. Biden is also slated to say that his administration is still…
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Trump-Putin deal on Crimea could trigger much bigger war – Paul Goble
By Paul Goble Avraam Smulyevich, a leading Israeli specialist on ethnic issues in the former Soviet space, says that Kyiv might be forced to agree to a Trump-Putin deal on Crimea but that such a deal would “only convince the Russian dictator that he had invade other countries without being punished” and thus lead him…