Новости за 19.02.2017

Editor’s Note: The following is a transcript of the Feb. 19 CBS TV news program “Face The Nation” which airs on Sundays. Read the transcript here 

Editor’s Note: The following is a transcript of the Feb. 19 program from ABC TV’s “This Week” program that airs Sundays. Read the transcript here   

Editor’s Note: The following is a transcript from the Feb. 19 broadcast of NBC’s “Meet The Press” Sunday news program. http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-02-19-17-n722976

A week before Michael T. Flynn resigned as national security adviser, a sealed proposal was hand-delivered to his office, outlining a way for President Trump to lift sanctions against Russia. Read the story here 

Fresh fighting broke out in the battle-weary front line town of Avdiyivka overnight on Feb. 19, a day before another attempt to bring peace to eastern Ukraine was due to start. A Kyiv Post reporter in Avdiyivka said that overnight the old part of the city was hit by mortar fire coming from the south, […]

Russia plotted to assassinate the prime minister of a European nation and overthrow its government last year, according to senior Whitehall sources. An election day coup plot to attack Montenegro’s parliament and kill the pro-Western leader was directed by Russian intelligence officers with the support and blessing of Moscow, to sabotage the country’s plan to join […]

MOSCOW – Ford has become the first major foreign carmaker in Russia to see sales grow after three bad years, potentially vindicating its decision to double down on a notoriously volatile market when rivals decided to cut and run. Sales of cars in Russia have fallen by more than half since a 2012 peak of […]

MUNICH — The Syrian opposition is fully committed to peace talks in Geneva on Feb. 23, a senior official said on Sunday, adding the talks would need to pave the way for a political transition. “We are fully committed for the Geneva talks,” Syrian National Coalition President Anas al-Abdah told delegates at the Munich Security […]

“Enemy troops enjoyed the support of mortars and tanks of Russia’s occupation forces. The fighting lasted for seven hours without a break. According to rough estimates, the adversaries lobbed over 300 shells into areas near the town of Avdiyivka and fired over 70 tank projectiles.  The situation near Avdiyivka is getting worse,” Defense Ministry press […]

On Feb. 7, Donald Trump used his first tweet of the day to distance himself from Russia and Vladimir Putin. Twenty minutes later in Berlin, the Chancellery issued a statement detailing Angela Merkel’s latest conversation with the Russian leader. Read more here

MUNICH – Russia’s decision to recognize identification documents issued by separatists in eastern Ukraine will hurt the chances for a cease-fire to take hold, the head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) told RFE/RL on February 19. The abrupt Russian move is also a setback for efforts to end the war […]

MUNICH – Vice President Mike Pence was the latest in a trio of high-ranking Trump emissaries to tell European allies in person that the United States will steadfastly support NATO and demand that Russia honor its commitments to end fighting in Ukraine. Some European leaders, however, remain skeptical of whether Pence and the U.S. secretaries […]

MOSCOW – A Russian opposition politician who fell into a coma due to poisoning this month has left the country for treatment abroad after his condition improved, his lawyer said Sunday. “This morning Vladimir Kara-Murza flew out of the country… to go through rehabilitation treatment after his second acute poisoning,” lawyer Vadim Prokhorov wrote on his […]

“A Ukrainian volunteer, a representative of one of the national charities, was killed at about 16:30 near the village of Krymske on February 17. Soldiers knew him as a true patriot, devoted to the idea of independence of Ukraine. We express our condolences to the relatives of the deceased volunteer,” the ATO press center posted […]

“The militant attack has been repelled,” the Ukrainian Defense Ministry reported in an update on Sunday morning. The total number of attacks on Ukrainian positions in the past 24 hours was 105 incidents, it said. Read more here

MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed an order for Russia to recognize passports and other documents issued by separatist rebel authorities in eastern Ukraine. The signing, announced by the Kremlin on Saturday, brought sharp criticism from Ukrainian officials. Ukraine’s national security council head, Oleksander Turchynov, said the order effectively means that Russia is […]

Justin Trudeau is blaming corporate and government leaders for the spike in global anger rocking world politics, warning that low wages and the shift to precarious part-time work is at the heart of why citizens are opposing traditional powers. Speaking at the St. Matthew’s Day banquet – an elite, black-tie event in Hamburg with a […]

Europe’s leaders gathered in apprehensive mood in Munich on Saturday for their first chance to weigh up the new US leadership’s approach to collective defence in the face of what many perceive as a growing Russian threat. The signs have been mixed, and confusing, since Donald Trump won election last November. He initially signalled warmth […]

Vice President Mike Pence has met with the president of Ukraine and assured him of U.S. support. Pence’s office says he “underscored U.S. support” for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and underlined that the U.S. does not recognize “Russia’s occupation and attempted annexation” of Crimea. Read more here

MOSCOW – A truce between government forces and pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine will come into force Monday, Moscow and Kyiv said, though some separatists were already labelling it unfeasible. Saturday’s announcement comes after nearly 30 people lost their lives as violence flared again earlier this month in a conflict that has left more than […]

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters on Saturday that a ceasefire will go into effect for eastern Ukraine on Monday. His comments followed a meeting with the foreign ministers for Ukraine, Germany and France in Munich, according to Russian state television. Read more here

A new cease-fire has been agreed to for eastern Ukraine, but some Russian-backed separatists could not say if they would respect the fighting halt, and a Ukrainian leader said he was not pleased with the results of a four-party meeting in Munich. The cease-fire was announced on February 18 by Russia and was brokered along […]

IRKUTSK – The overworked cleaning woman realized that her grown son was not just sleeping off his habitual hangover in the Siberian city of Irkutsk when she discovered – to her horror — that he had quietly gone blind. Even as his speech slurred and his condition steadily deteriorated, the man, Renat V. Mukhamadeyev, 31, […]

Editor’s Note: The following is a video excerpt from a panel discussion at the Feb. 17-19 Munich Security Conference in Germany involving U.S. Sen. John McCain (Republican-Arizona) and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. Excerpt from McCain: “Russians are killing Ukrainians every single day. They are killing them. I believe it’s going to get worse. I believe it’s […]