After years of covert American involvement in the Ukrainian proxy and civil war which has raged since 2014 - and which a leaked recording confirmed was precipitated by the US State Department - President Trump has decided to come off the fence regarding his prior reluctance to formally approve arms sales to the Kiev government.
Authored by Andrew Korybko via Oriental Review,
Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto was speaking at an OSCE meeting in Vienna last week when he requested that the organization send a special monitoring mission to Ukraine’s western region of Transcarpathia, arguing that anti-Hungarian demonstrations there have made it necessary for the international community to keep an eye on the situation.
A Ukrainian associate of Paul Manafort has come forward to say that Manafort didn't help him ghostwrite a sympathetic editorial about Manafort's lobbying work on behalf of the former Ukrainian government, Bloomberg reported.
Yesterday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller accused Manafort of violating his gag order by helping to ghostwrite the editorial, adding that the terms of a tentative bail agreement may need to be reexamined to account for Manafort's purported disobedience, which prosecutors argued made him a greater flight risk.
Snipers Fired At BOTH Police and Protesters In Ukraine
Remember the protests in Ukraine which led to the old leader being replaced?
If you’ll recall, the ruthless slaughter of people by snipers was the event which turned world opinion against the Ukrainian Prime Minister, and resulted in him having to flee the country.
Italy’s 11th largest newspaper – Il Giornale – reported on an admission by several of the snipers (Google translation) :
All eyes were on Trump and Putin again as the two leaders bumped into each other at the APEC meeting on Saturday. They patted each other on the back several times, and Putin whispered something in Trump’s ear. The US leader listened attentively leaving reporters to guess what the two discussed.