The US announced Friday it would provide Ukraine with “enhanced defensive capabilities,” a move that could escalate a conflict between western-backed government forces and pro-Russian separatists that has claimed more than 10,000 lives since 2014. It also threatens to undermine President Donald Trump’s calls for improved relations with Moscow. “The ...
Ukrainians will be offered referendums on joining NATO and the EU in the “near future”, President Petro Poroshenko said Friday. “We are fully sticking to our path towards European integration,” Poroshenko said in remarks broadcast by several Ukrainian television stations. “Have no doubt that in the very near future there ...