Ukraine

Ukraine’s War Zone: Government Claims New Advances

By James Rupert

Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council has issued a map showing what it says are its troops’ latest advances on the battlefield in the two southeastern provinces of Luhansk and Donetsk as of July 9, 2014 (at noon Ukrainian time).

Former NATO Military Leader Calls for Permanent Basing of NATO Troops in the Baltics

By Steven Swinford, Telegraph

[O]ne of Britain’s most senior generals said that British troops should be permanently stationed in the Baltic States as part of a Nato task force to deter an invasion by Russia.

Ukraine’s Female Pilot-Soldier Surfaces in a Russian Prison

By James Rupert

At age 33, Nadiya Savchenko has served her country as a paratrooper in the combat zone of Iraq, as a helicopter navigator, and as a volunteer National Guard infantrywoman in the three-month-old war against Russian-backed militias. Yesterday she surfaced in a new role – as Ukraine’s most prominent prisoner of that war, detained in a […]

Ukraine’s Army Now Holds Two-Thirds of Donbas, Senior Security Official Says

Kyiv Official Thanks US for Food Rations and Vests, Says Ukraine Needs Sanctions on Russia Ukrainian troops now control two-thirds of the country’s Donbas region, a top Ukrainian security official says, nine days after they resumed their counter-offensive against Russian-backed insurgents. Ukraine’s military “will continue to tighten the containment” of the separatist militias, and will […]

NATO Needs Strategy for Russia’s Little Green Men

By Steven Pifer, Spiegel

NATO should think through the implications of the little green men phenomenon, in particular for the Baltic states of Estonia and Latvia.

Secretary General: NATO Needs Elite Units at ‘High Alert’

By Julian E. Barnes, Wall Street Journal

The leader of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization said Tuesday that Russia is continuing to try to destabilize Ukraine, including through a new military buildup on its border

Video of NATO Secretary General at the White House

By NATO

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen thanked President Barack Obama for his country’s leadership within the Alliance and strong commitment to transatlantic security during talks with the United States president at the White House