https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/05/world/europe/russia-plot-dhl-planes.html European officials are investigating a Russian plot to plant incendiary devices—weapons designed to start fires—on European cargo planes. The devices have been linked to two fires in Germany and England so far, which caused minimal damage but alarmed European officials who believe the situation may escalate further. Polish authorities have recently made arrests for another attempt; investigators found that… Read more »
Article: https://www.euronews.com/2022/11/18/ukrainian-investigators-join-probe-of-fatal-missile-blast-in-poland As the majority of people know, a missile from Ukraine landed in Poland and killed two people. The town where said missile landed is 6 kilometers away from the Polish-Ukrainian border. The US and Poland had started the investigation, but now Ukraine had sent over some of their own to aid it. There is controversy now over who… Read more »
Article: https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/11/04/bulgarian-mps-approve-military-aid-to-ukraine-despite-opposition In late October, the Bulgarian National Assembly decided in a 175-49 vote to start sending military aid to Ukraine. There will be a decision over what kind of military aid to send to Ukraine. Previous to this decision, Bulgaria had been supporting Ukraine by working in their factories. And along with Hungary, Bulgaria was one of only a… Read more »
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/kremlin-says-russia-cannot-de-escalate-due-ukrainian-troop-presence-nearby-2021-12-01/ As Ukraine has expressed interest in joining NATO, and Russia has expressed vehemently how against they are about the issue. As the west talks with Ukraine, an unusual amount of Russian troops have moved to the border. Though Russia says that the deployment of these troops are only after Ukraine “deployed half of their army” to Donbass. Dmitry Peskov… Read more »
Russian President Vladimir Putin has defended the pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine, calling for direct talks between them and the Kyiv government to help restore peace. He said Ukraine had accepted the rebel leaders’ signatures on the 2015 Minsk ceasefire deal, so recognising them. The separatists launched a Russian-backed insurgency in April 2014, seizing most of the Donbas region. Ukraine… Read more »
Al Jazeera: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has arrived in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin for talks expected to focus on the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria. The meeting on Tuesday comes after two other high-ranking German officials visited Moscow this spring in an apparent effort to revamp bilateral relationships. The official purpose of… Read more »
Al Jazeera: One international observer with the European security watchdog OSCE has been killed and two other monitors wounded after their vehicle struck a landmine while on patrol in eastern Ukraine. The six-member patrol consisting of two armoured vehicles from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe was travelling on Sunday in an area of the Luhansk region, which is not under… Read more »
