By Guil Sho After the tragedy of Malaysia Airlines, it is becoming clearer and clearer to the international community that Russia is taking an active role in the war against Ukraine and is supporting terrorism. Despite this, France is not...
Around the French national holiday of Bastille Day, civic activists worldwide protested against France’s Mistral deal with Putin’s Russia. On 14 July 1789, the people of Paris stormed and captured the fortress Bastille....
On Monday July 14, Bastille Day, the Ukrainian community of London held a demonstration at the French embassy in London to denounce the decision by France to sell two Mistral class warships to Russia, fearful that Russia will use the ships...
France’s selling warships to Russia – the first arms deal between a NATO member state and Russia – has alarmed Ukraine and its supporters. Ukraine has seen Russia seize Crimea and escalate violence in eastern...
France directly violates a key EU document in arms trade by supplying warships to Russia, stated Mykhailo Samus, expert at the Center for Army, Conversion and Disarmament, censor.NET reports referring to Delovaya Stolitsa. The...
By Guil Sho; this article in Ukrainian A series of worldwide protests will mark the French national holiday, Bastille Day, on July 14, 2014. The protest organizers call upon France’s President Francois Hollande not to...
By Guil Sho. This article in Ukrainian The contract and problems it poses In 2011, France and Russia signed a contract in which France agreed to sell 2 Mistral class ships to Russia for EUR 1,2bn, with an option of two additional...
OPEN LETTER TO SECRETARY HAGEL June 13, 2014 The Honorable Chuck Hagel Secretary of Defense Department of Defense 1400 Defense Pentagon Washington, DC 20301-1400 Dear Secretary Hagel: Several friends of mine who are American veterans of...
February 26, 2014, Ukrayinska Pravda The Russian President ordered his Ministry of Defense to conduct an urgent comprehensive combat readiness review in the Western and Central Military Districts, according to Russian Minister of...
Putin’s goals and philosophy Sławomir Sierakowski: What is Putin’s ultimate goal in this war? Timothy Snyder: That’s no big secret: to destroy Ukraine as a state and exterminate Ukrainians as a nation. I’d...