
Contents: Russia builds bridge over Kerch Strait to Crimea, blocking commercial traffic to Ukraine; Ukraine threatens seizure of ships in Sea of Azov travelling to and from Crimea
by John J. Xenakis6 Apr 2018, 6:22 AM PDT0

The Trump administration on Thursday approved the sale of 210 Javelin anti-tank missiles and 37 launchers to Ukraine, a deal valued at $47 million. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko quickly expressed gratitude to President Trump for making the sale, while the Russians were considerably less pleased.
by John Hayward2 Mar 2018, 7:58 PM PDT0

Protesters who support Ukraine’s populist Movement of New Forces claimed this week that the nation’s top prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko lunged at their protest tent Monday night brandishing an ax.
by Frances Martel28 Feb 2018, 5:06 PM PDT0

Just a few hours from Germany, Europe’s largest economy, a Ukrainian soldier is killed every three days defending the territory of his country inside its borders, according to the Trump administration’s special representative to the Ukraine conflict Amb. Kurt Volker.
by Kristina Wong28 Feb 2018, 1:17 AM PDT0

Contents: Syria, Russia, Iran conduct full-on mass extermination of civilians in Eastern Ghouta; Russia rejects 30-day ceasefire in United Nations Security Council; North Korea insults South Korea with selection of Kim Yong-chol head of Olympics closing ceremony
by John J. Xenakis23 Feb 2018, 6:03 AM PDT0

Contents: Special prosecutor Robert Mueller issues farcical indictment of Russian trolls; How the Russian trolls do their jobs; Russian trolls are Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons; Comparing Russian trolls to Chinese hackers
by John J. Xenakis19 Feb 2018, 5:13 AM PDT0

Ukrainian authorities violently arrested and deported Mikheil Saakashvili, former Georgian president and governor of Ukraine’s Odessa region, to Poland on Monday, citing his lack of permission to enter the country.
by Frances Martel14 Feb 2018, 9:10 AM PDT0

Author and sociologist Frank Furedi claims globalist activists working for billionaire financier George Soros bragged about toppling governments at a private lunch.
by Jack Montgomery10 Feb 2018, 8:14 AM PDT0

Former Vice President Joe Biden told the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC, that the focus on alleged collusion between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign leading up to the 2016 presidential election had “obscured” a bigger issue.
by Penny Starr24 Jan 2018, 8:24 AM PDT0

A two-time world female chess champion from Ukraine has decided to skip an upcoming tournament in Saudi Arabia, even though doing so will cause her to lose her titles because she refuses to be treated like a “secondary creature” in the Saudi Kingdom.
by Warner Todd Huston27 Dec 2017, 7:57 AM PDT0

TEL AVIV — A chess grandmaster was forced to surrender her title for refusing to wear a traditional Arab robe in a major chess tournament held in Saudi Arabia.
by Breitbart Jerusalem27 Dec 2017, 7:22 AM PDT0

Contents: US sending anti-tank missiles to Ukraine as East Ukraine violence surges; Violence surges in East Ukraine as Russia withdraws its monitors; Russia objects to weapons sale with laughable statement
by John J. Xenakis24 Dec 2017, 2:30 PM PDT0

U.S. President Donald Trump has approved the private sector sale of more weapons to Ukraine to help the country combat Russian-backed troops in the east.
by Edwin Mora22 Dec 2017, 7:29 AM PDT0

The Trump administration has approved the first-ever U.S. commercial sale of lethal weapons to Ukraine — green-lighting a decision that the Obama administration refused to make.
by Kristina Wong20 Dec 2017, 6:03 PM PDT0

Thousands of Ukrainians took to the streets of Kiev on Sunday in support of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, arrested in the capital on Friday after accusing Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s administration of widespread corruption.
by Frances Martel11 Dec 2017, 8:21 AM PDT0

Mikheil Saakashvili, the pro-West, stridently anti-Putin former president of Georgia, was reportedly arrested in Kiev, Ukraine late Friday, days after a crowd of supporters freed him from police custody by force.
by Frances Martel8 Dec 2017, 4:17 PM PDT0

The fallout from Ukraine’s dramatically failed attempt at arresting former Georgian president (and Ukrainian governor) Mikheil Saakashvili on Tuesday was a violent raid on supporters’ tent city in front of the nation’s parliament.
by Frances Martel6 Dec 2017, 12:20 PM PDT0

Former Georgian president – and former governor of Odessa, Ukraine – Mikheil Saakashvili escaped police custody on Tuesday after a crowd of hundreds of supporters dragged him out of the police car into which officers placed him after a raid on his home in Kiev.
by Frances Martel5 Dec 2017, 9:44 AM PDT0

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke on the phone Tuesday for half an hour. The Prime Minister’s Office said that the phone conversation dealt with Syria and Iran’s attempts to establish itself in Syrian territory, with the PMO stating that “Prime Minister Netanyahu insisted on Israel’s security principles.”
by Breitbart Jerusalem22 Nov 2017, 3:03 AM PDT0

“We had a great call with President Putin,” Trump said as he departed the White House to spend Thanksgiving break at his Mar-a-lago club in Florida.
by Charlie Spiering21 Nov 2017, 3:08 PM PDT0

WASHINGTON — Special counsel Robert Mueller’s grand jury is investigating a prominent Democratic lobbyist and a former GOP congressman for their involvement in an influence campaign on behalf of Ukrainian interests tied to Paul Manafort, according to a person with direct knowledge of the investigation.
by Breitbart News3 Nov 2017, 7:56 AM PDT0

Multiple regional news outlets are reporting that an SUV has crashed into a crowd in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city. Police have reportedly confirmed five deaths and at least 11 injuries.
by Frances Martel18 Oct 2017, 1:16 PM PDT0

BRUSSELS (AP) — Hungary says it will “block and boycott” all attempts to draw Ukraine more deeply into the European Union unless Kiev changes a new education law that rolls back options for schools to teach lessons in languages other than Ukrainian.
by Breitbart London16 Oct 2017, 10:11 AM PDT0

A Los Angeles model, who police say was tortured and killed by her boyfriend, had been scalped and drained of all her blood, an autopsy revealed.
by Katherine Rodriguez25 Sep 2017, 12:38 PM PDT0

Contents: Russia’s ‘telephone terror’ forces evacuation of over 200,000 people; Kenya’s government in chaos as it faces a new election delay
by John J. Xenakis22 Sep 2017, 1:31 PM PDT0

Former Georgian President and Ukrainian Gov. Mikheil Saakashvili, exiled from Ukraine when current President Petro Poroshenko revoked his citizenship, re-entered the country on Sunday after a crowd of supporters pushed back border agents keeping him away.
by Frances Martel11 Sep 2017, 11:18 AM PDT0

Contents: The colorful Mikhail Saakashvili ‘invades’ Ukraine from Poland and threatens revolution; Saakashvili to ‘march on Kiev’ and challenge Poroshenko government
by John J. Xenakis11 Sep 2017, 5:29 AM PDT0

California Governor Jerry Brown is flying to Vladivostok Sunday for an economic cooperation conference hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin, where the governor plans to promote decarbonizing investments.
by Chriss W. Street3 Sep 2017, 6:14 AM PDT0

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Thursday the U.S. is actively considering sending lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine, which is fighting Russian separatists inside its eastern border with Russia.
by Kristina Wong27 Aug 2017, 9:46 AM PDT0

Russia’s RIA Novosti, a state-run Russian-language outlet, published a story on the occasion of Ukraine’s Independence Day to celebrate the annexation of Crimea as “the first step in the reunification of Russia.”
by John Hayward24 Aug 2017, 6:10 PM PDT0

Secretary of Defense James Mattis arrived in Jordan on Sunday, his first stop on a trip that will also include travel to Turkey and Ukraine.
by John Hayward21 Aug 2017, 5:41 PM PDT0

North Korea’s ability to acquire banned technology in defiance of sanctions has long been recognized as a serious problem, but according to a new report from the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the “astounding progress” in North Korean missile technology over the past two years is largely based on Russian rocket engine technology.
by John Hayward16 Aug 2017, 7:49 PM PDT0

Both U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attended the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting in the Philippines this weekend. On Sunday, the two had what Tillerson described as a “lengthy” meeting on the sidelines of the conference. Both emerged from the meeting with cautious flickers of optimism that U.S.-Russia relations might be improved.
by John Hayward7 Aug 2017, 1:34 PM PDT0

Energy Secretary Rick Perry was duped into a 22-minute phone call with two Russian pranksters, one of whom he believed was the Ukrainian prime minister, his office has confirmed.
by Ben Kew27 Jul 2017, 7:47 AM PDT0

Some 5,000 troops from NATO and partner countries are staging exercises in Romania watched by a senior NATO official and Romania’s president
by Breitbart London15 Jul 2017, 3:42 AM PDT0

A British man who joined a pro-Russian militia in Ukraine has been jailed for terrorism offenses, in the first U.K. prosecution over the conflict.
by Breitbart London14 Jul 2017, 10:07 AM PDT0

According to two Reuters reporters who said they personally witnessed the delivery, Russia has transferred two more gas turbines to Crimea, in defiance of sanctions imposed after Russia annexed the peninsula from Ukraine in 2014.
by John Hayward13 Jul 2017, 5:18 PM PDT0

The latest outbreak of ransomware has renewed discussions of invoking NATO Article 5 in response to cyberattacks – the article that calls for mutual defense against a military attack.
by John Hayward29 Jun 2017, 4:41 PM PDT0

PARIS (AP) — A new, highly virulent strain of malicious software that is crippling computers globally appears to have been sown in Ukraine, where it badly hobbled much of the government and private sector on the eve of a holiday celebrating a post-Soviet constitution.
by Breitbart London28 Jun 2017, 1:42 AM PDT0

A massive new ransomware attack similar to the devastating WannaCry virus is hitting corporate and government targets across Europe and Russia, from the A.P. Moller-Maersk shipping line to Russia’s Rosneft oil company.
by John Hayward27 Jun 2017, 9:17 PM PDT0

PARIS (AP) — A new and highly virulent outbreak of malicious data-scrambling software appears to be causing mass disruption across Europe, hitting Ukraine especially hard.
by Breitbart London27 Jun 2017, 8:15 AM PDT0

Russia has backed out of meeting with U.S. State Department officials at the Kremlin planned for later this week following the renewal of sanctions against Russia for its “ongoing violation” of Ukraine’s sovereignty by occupying parts of that country.
by Penny Starr21 Jun 2017, 8:36 PM PDT0

“It’s a great honor to be with President Poroshenko of the Ukraine,” President Donald Trump explained on Tuesday, “a place that we’ve all been very much involved in.” Twittericans, a people equally offended by insults to their online nationality, immediately pounced on the faux pas.
by Daniel J. Flynn20 Jun 2017, 9:32 PM PDT0

Coming off of a meeting with President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko made an appearance on Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Special Report.” During that appearance, Poroshenko praised Trump as being charismatic and likened him to former President Ronald Reagan, who
by Jeff Poor20 Jun 2017, 5:22 PM PDT0

President Donald Trump met with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Tuesday as his administration imposed sanctions on Russian-backed separatists in the country.
by Charlie Spiering20 Jun 2017, 1:40 PM PDT0