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Ukraine vows to use force if pro-Russian protesters don’t leave occupied buildings
View Photo Gallery — Pro-Russian protests spread across eastern Ukraine: Ukrainian police forces began removing the pro-Russian demonstrators occupying eastern Ukrainian government buildings early Tuesday after a tense night of confrontation that officials here accused Moscow of provoking to seek a pretext for invasion.
By Will Englund, Updated: Wednesday, April 9, 3:25 PM E-mail the writers
DONETSK, Ukraine — The country’s new interior minister vowed Wednesday morning to use force against pro-Russian protesters unless they leave government buildings they have occupied in eastern Ukraine by Friday, and armored personnel carriers were spotted gathering in the city of Luhansk.
Politicians in the region who were associated with the previous, ousted government scrambled to find a resolution. They voiced sympathy for the protesters but made it clear they do not favor a breakup of Ukraine or a protracted occupation of government property.
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Secretary of State John Kerry came under heavy scrutiny by lawmakers over the Ukraine crisis and U.S. foreign policy with Russia during a congressional hearing on Tuesday.
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Donetsk isn’t Crimea, in two maps
Adam Taylor APR 8
Some perspective.
Ukrainian parliament trades punches
Casey Capachi APR 8
The fiery rhetoric from Kiev’s lawmakers took a very physical form Tuesday.
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Crimean Peninsula last month, against any incursion into eastern Ukraine. “If Russia were to intervene further in Ukraine, it would be a historic mistake,” NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told reporters Tuesday in Paris. “It would have grave consequences for our relationship with Russia and would further isolate Russia internationally.”
Russia blames U.S.
In Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday that the United States, not Russia, is responsible for sowing discord in Ukraine. “Our American partners are trying to assess the situation,” Lavrov told reporters, “applying their habits to others.”
The Russian Foreign Ministry charged that ultranationalists from Ukraine’s Right Sector movement and American mercenaries were among the police force Kiev sent to eastern Ukraine to quell the violence.
“We are particularly concerned that the operation involves some 150 American mercenaries from a private company Greystone Ltd., dressed in the uniform of the [Ukrainian] special task police unit Sokol,” the ministry said in a statement posted on its Web site Tuesday morning. It called for an immediate halt to “all military preparations which could lead to a civil war.”
Ukrainian officials denied that any mercenaries or irregular forces are at work in eastern Ukraine.
“There is no Right Sector, let alone U.S. security forces, in Kharkiv, Donetsk or Luhansk,” Serhiy Pashynsky, chief of the presidential administration in Kiev, said Tuesday. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry issued a similar denial.
Earlier reports in Russian news media identified Greystone as a subsidiary of the private security firm once known as Blackwater and later renamed Academi.
Two weeks ago, Russia’s Itar-Tass news agency quoted Ukrainian government security sources as saying that they intended to hire private military personnel from Greystone “to suppress” the eastern, Russian-speaking regions of Ukraine. In early March, Russian state television reported that several hundred armed Greystone employees had flown into the Kiev airport.
A woman who answered the phone at Greystone’s offices in Chesapeake, Va., declined to comment Tuesday. She identified herself only as “an employee of Greystone.”
In Washington, a senior Pentagon official told a House committee Tuesday that the United States is extending the stay of the destroyer USS Truxtun in the Black Sea and will send another ship there in a week. The Truxtun was dispatched last month to conduct training with the Romanian and Bulgarian navies, a mission scheduled before the Ukraine crisis erupted.
William Branigin and Christian Davenport in Washington contributed to this report.
View Photo Gallery — Pro-Russian protests spread across eastern Ukraine: Ukrainian police forces began removing the pro-Russian demonstrators occupying eastern Ukrainian government buildings early Tuesday after a tense night of confrontation that officials here accused Moscow of provoking to seek a pretext for invasion.
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By Will Englund, Updated: Wednesday, April 9, 3:25 PM E-mail the writers
DONETSK, Ukraine — The country’s new interior minister vowed Wednesday morning to use force against pro-Russian protesters unless they leave government buildings they have occupied in eastern Ukraine by Friday, and armored personnel carriers were spotted gathering in the city of Luhansk.
Politicians in the region who were associated with the previous, ousted government scrambled to find a resolution. They voiced sympathy for the protesters but made it clear they do not favor a breakup of Ukraine or a protracted occupation of government property.
Video
Secretary of State John Kerry came under heavy scrutiny by lawmakers over the Ukraine crisis and U.S. foreign policy with Russia during a congressional hearing on Tuesday.
Read more
Donetsk isn’t Crimea, in two maps
Adam Taylor APR 8
Some perspective.
Ukrainian parliament trades punches
Casey Capachi APR 8
The fiery rhetoric from Kiev’s lawmakers took a very physical form Tuesday.
Call rises in Europe to frack, baby, frack
Griff Witte and Anthony Faiola APR 7
Engaged in a showdown with Russia, leaders push shale gas as a path to energy independence.
Crimean Peninsula last month, against any incursion into eastern Ukraine. “If Russia were to intervene further in Ukraine, it would be a historic mistake,” NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told reporters Tuesday in Paris. “It would have grave consequences for our relationship with Russia and would further isolate Russia internationally.”
Russia blames U.S.
In Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday that the United States, not Russia, is responsible for sowing discord in Ukraine. “Our American partners are trying to assess the situation,” Lavrov told reporters, “applying their habits to others.”
The Russian Foreign Ministry charged that ultranationalists from Ukraine’s Right Sector movement and American mercenaries were among the police force Kiev sent to eastern Ukraine to quell the violence.
“We are particularly concerned that the operation involves some 150 American mercenaries from a private company Greystone Ltd., dressed in the uniform of the [Ukrainian] special task police unit Sokol,” the ministry said in a statement posted on its Web site Tuesday morning. It called for an immediate halt to “all military preparations which could lead to a civil war.”
Ukrainian officials denied that any mercenaries or irregular forces are at work in eastern Ukraine.
“There is no Right Sector, let alone U.S. security forces, in Kharkiv, Donetsk or Luhansk,” Serhiy Pashynsky, chief of the presidential administration in Kiev, said Tuesday. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry issued a similar denial.
Earlier reports in Russian news media identified Greystone as a subsidiary of the private security firm once known as Blackwater and later renamed Academi.
Two weeks ago, Russia’s Itar-Tass news agency quoted Ukrainian government security sources as saying that they intended to hire private military personnel from Greystone “to suppress” the eastern, Russian-speaking regions of Ukraine. In early March, Russian state television reported that several hundred armed Greystone employees had flown into the Kiev airport.
A woman who answered the phone at Greystone’s offices in Chesapeake, Va., declined to comment Tuesday. She identified herself only as “an employee of Greystone.”
In Washington, a senior Pentagon official told a House committee Tuesday that the United States is extending the stay of the destroyer USS Truxtun in the Black Sea and will send another ship there in a week. The Truxtun was dispatched last month to conduct training with the Romanian and Bulgarian navies, a mission scheduled before the Ukraine crisis erupted.
William Branigin and Christian Davenport in Washington contributed to this report.
Russian 'plans for war on Sweden' cause concern
Published: 07 Apr 2014 12:25 GMT+02:00
Updated: 07 Apr 2014 18:25 GMT+02:00
Russia has intensified its espionage efforts in Sweden to include war preparations, Swedish security service Säpo warned on Monday.
"The most serious threat we see right now is war preparations," Säpo chief counter-intelligence analyst Wilhelm Unge said at a press conference on Monday.
While stressing that such preparations did not necessarily mean anything dramatic, he said: "It's no secret that Russia is engaged in this. It's a little bit worrying."
Unge said Russia's intensified interest in Sweden was evidenced by simulated flight attacks on Swedish targets as well as attempts to recruit spies, increased signals intelligence, and the purchase of a significant number of maps.
"If you weren't carrying out war preparations against Sweden, you probably wouldn't have any military intelligence here. The intelligence service is part of the Russian general staff and just the fact that they are here indicates some kind of intent," he said.
The simulated flight attacks were a particular point of concern for Säpo.
"You don't carry out these kinds of things unless you can actually conceive carrying out an attack in the future," Unge added, refusing to go into further details.
The news came as part of Säpo's annual intelligence assessment, which also pointed the finger at 14 other countries with espionage interests in Sweden including China and Iran. Russia, however, was revealed to have the strongest presence in Sweden.
"Russia is the biggest intelligence agent in Sweden. They're interested in everything really - politics, finance, technology, and military information," Unge explained.
"It's one of few countries that has a very broad intelligence interest in Sweden."
Unge added that the intensified spying was likely a result of Russia's involvement with Ukraine and Crimea, but the analyst remained tight-lipped about further details.
TT/The Local/at (news@thelocal.se)
Russia rejects US warnings over oil deal with Iran
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Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said in remarks carried by the state RIA Novosti news agency that an increase in Russian-Iranian trade is a "natural process that doesn't involve any elements of political or economic challenge to anyone."
Russian business daily Kommersant has reported that Moscow plans to buy 500,000 barrels of Iranian oil a day, a deal that would shatter an export limit defined by an interim nuclear agreement world powers and Iran reached last year.
Iran has agreed to temporarily limit its atomic work, which the West fears could be a cover for developing nuclear weapons, in return for some sanctions relief. Six world powers, including Russia, and Iran are working on a fuller deal that would place long-term restrictions on Iran's nuclear program in exchange for an end to all economic sanctions.
The six-month interim agreement, which went into effect in January and expires in July, allows Iran to continue exporting a total of 1 million barrels a day of oil to six countries: China, India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Turkey. The promise didn't apply to Russia, which wasn't an existing customer of Iran's petroleum industry.
If Russia reaches the oil-for-goods contract with Iran, it would challenge Western efforts to secure a comprehensive agreement. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday that Washington could impose sanctions if Russia and Iran move forward with the oil contract.
Ryabkov said he was unaware of any specific agreements, adding that a "normal exchange of opinions with Iranian colleagues has been going on to determine which sectors of economy are best suited for further development of ties."
He insisted that Russia wants to develop its ties with Iran and rejected the U.S. threat to impose sanctions.
"We don't think that any unilateral U.S. sanctions, no matter whom they target, are legitimate, and we reject such a stance," he said.
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Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said in remarks carried by the state RIA Novosti news agency that an increase in Russian-Iranian trade is a "natural process that doesn't involve any elements of political or economic challenge to anyone."
Russian business daily Kommersant has reported that Moscow plans to buy 500,000 barrels of Iranian oil a day, a deal that would shatter an export limit defined by an interim nuclear agreement world powers and Iran reached last year.
Iran has agreed to temporarily limit its atomic work, which the West fears could be a cover for developing nuclear weapons, in return for some sanctions relief. Six world powers, including Russia, and Iran are working on a fuller deal that would place long-term restrictions on Iran's nuclear program in exchange for an end to all economic sanctions.
The six-month interim agreement, which went into effect in January and expires in July, allows Iran to continue exporting a total of 1 million barrels a day of oil to six countries: China, India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Turkey. The promise didn't apply to Russia, which wasn't an existing customer of Iran's petroleum industry.
If Russia reaches the oil-for-goods contract with Iran, it would challenge Western efforts to secure a comprehensive agreement. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday that Washington could impose sanctions if Russia and Iran move forward with the oil contract.
Ryabkov said he was unaware of any specific agreements, adding that a "normal exchange of opinions with Iranian colleagues has been going on to determine which sectors of economy are best suited for further development of ties."
He insisted that Russia wants to develop its ties with Iran and rejected the U.S. threat to impose sanctions.
"We don't think that any unilateral U.S. sanctions, no matter whom they target, are legitimate, and we reject such a stance," he said.
Putin doing the most right now brehs
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- Russia oil talks pose new hurdle to Iran nuke pactAssociated Press
- US official:Iran nuclear deal to be drafted in MayAssociated Press
- Iran nuclear talks 'moving to next phase' AFP
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- Iran oil exports will be in line with sanctions target: U.S. Reuters
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said in remarks carried by the state RIA Novosti news agency that an increase in Russian-Iranian trade is a "natural process that doesn't involve any elements of political or economic challenge to anyone."
Russian business daily Kommersant has reported that Moscow plans to buy 500,000 barrels of Iranian oil a day, a deal that would shatter an export limit defined by an interim nuclear agreement world powers and Iran reached last year.
Iran has agreed to temporarily limit its atomic work, which the West fears could be a cover for developing nuclear weapons, in return for some sanctions relief. Six world powers, including Russia, and Iran are working on a fuller deal that would place long-term restrictions on Iran's nuclear program in exchange for an end to all economic sanctions.
The six-month interim agreement, which went into effect in January and expires in July, allows Iran to continue exporting a total of 1 million barrels a day of oil to six countries: China, India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Turkey. The promise didn't apply to Russia, which wasn't an existing customer of Iran's petroleum industry.
If Russia reaches the oil-for-goods contract with Iran, it would challenge Western efforts to secure a comprehensive agreement. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday that Washington could impose sanctions if Russia and Iran move forward with the oil contract.
Ryabkov said he was unaware of any specific agreements, adding that a "normal exchange of opinions with Iranian colleagues has been going on to determine which sectors of economy are best suited for further development of ties."
He insisted that Russia wants to develop its ties with Iran and rejected the U.S. threat to impose sanctions.
"We don't think that any unilateral U.S. sanctions, no matter whom they target, are legitimate, and we reject such a stance," he said.
Putin doing the most right now brehs
aight so...its time to drop the hammer.
I don't know why nikkas are acting like this shyt died off.
the country is splitting in half.
the country is splitting in half.
American media trying make it look like Russia intentionally held back info from the Boston bombings now, that propaganda getting hectic out here
Lowkey isn't even the word. Amazed. This shyt is getting more intense each day.