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Leaked text suggests possible US-Russia missile arrangement over Ukraine
The text closely reflects statements made to the media last week by NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg as he laid out the 30-nation military organization’s position on Russia’s demands.
By Dasha Litvinova
US warns Russia as Kremlin talks about war threat in Ukraine
“The probability of hostilities in Ukraine still remains high,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a conference call with reporters.
Russia rejects Western concerns about Ukraine as smokescreen
The Kremlin's spokesman said Russian troop movements inside its own borders are nothing to worry about.
Moscow won’t invade Ukraine — unless provoked: Russian envoy
Russia has cast its weight behind a separatist insurgency in Ukraine’s east that erupted shortly after Moscow’s 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula and has caused more than 14,000 deaths.
By Edith M. Lederer, The Associated Press
Why did a landmark missile treaty fail? US and Russia blame each other
Russia and the United States blamed each other Thursday for abandoning a landmark arms control agreement on missiles, with Moscow warning of a new arms race and the Trump administration demanding details of a recent mysterious explosion that killed five Russian nuclear engineers.
By Edith M. Lederer, The Associated Press