In the White House Rose Garden on Tuesday, President Obama announced the plan to draw down the military forces in Afghanistan to 9,800 from its current level of 32,000 by the beginning of 2015. The president continued saying, “By the end of 2015 we will have reduced that presence by roughly half, and will have consolidated our […]
At least 13 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in another 17 wounded one pro-Russian separatists carried out an attack on a military checkpoint in the Eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region using mortars, grenade launchers, and heavy automatic weapons. Another Ukrainian serviceman was killed overnight in the neighboring Luhansk region during a strike on a military convoy should. […]
In direct opposition to Russian president Vladimir Putin’s calling for a postponement of a succession vote by separatists in eastern Ukraine, pro-Russian separatists voted unanimously to go ahead with a referendum of independence from Ukraine on May 11th. Many believe that Putin’s call for postponement was a staged event. According to Denis Pushilin, leader […]
After meeting with the Swiss president, Didier Burkhalter, who is also the head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, in Moscow on Wednesday, Russia’s president Vladimir Putin called on the separatists in Ukraine to postpone the referendum for autonomy in southeastern Ukraine that was scheduled for May 11th. Whether or not the […]