Calls for peace talks between Russia and Ukraine are “pure cynicism” a Kyiv government official claimed Saturday. Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany, Oleksii Makeiev, has lashed out at suggestions that his country should engage in negotiations with Russia after a number of politicians and trade union officials called for talks to be sought. Spearheaded by historian Peter […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Ukraine’s top security agency notified a top Orthodox priest Saturday that he was suspected of justifying Russia’s aggression, a criminal offense, amid a bitter dispute over a famed Orthodox monastery. Metropolitan Pavel, the abbot of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery, Ukraine’s most revered Orthodox site, has strongly resisted the authorities’ order to […]
Russia announced on Wednesday that 31-year-old American journalist Evan Gershkovich, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), was arrested in Ekaterinburg and charged with espionage. The WSJ “vehemently” denied the allegations and demanded the “immediate release” of Gershkovich. Russia’s FSB security service, successor to the notorious KGB, said it obtained authorization to arrest Gershkovich […]
