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Barack Obama pitches the US as a source of energy that would weaken the European Union’s dependence on Russia for oil and gas “in the light of what’s happened”.
Cumulonimbus clouds and heavy showers are common during spring in the UK, but why?
Military tensions are set to escalate on the Crimean peninsula as Russian forces take over a naval headquarters, and Ukraine says its troops will not withdraw from the region.
Fashion designer LWren Scott, the girlfriend of Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger, is found dead in her New York apartment after an apparent suicide.
The diplomatic chill is deepening ahead of Crimea’s vote on joining Russia. And the tougher the west gets, the more intransigent the Russians could become.
The EU has announced an escalating scale of punishments contingent on Russia’s behaviour. But as it escalates, it gets less specific.
President Obama warns that a proposed referendum on the future of Crimea would violate Ukraine’s constitution and international law.
US and EU diplomacy to end the Ukraine crisis is being undermined by the lack of appetite among some countries for any course of action that might influence Russia’s next moves.
John Kerry urges Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to engage in direct talks with Ukraine, while in Donetsk, pro-Russian protesters regain control of a local government building.
The first shots in Moscow’s occupation of Crimea were fired today as Russian troops confronted members of the Ukraine air force. And over the Atlantic, the war of words is heating up.
The US and EU failed to anticipate President Putin’s response to events in Ukraine. But as Andrew Wood writes, the west can benefit from the situation – provided it is firm and sticks together.
It is a version of mutually assured destruction preventing a full-scale trade embargo, and President Putin has planned in this way for years – Europe imports nearly a third of its gas from Russia.
The UK has no intention of doing anything “muscular” to stop Russia taking Crimea, which is now considered as returned fully to the Russian sphere.
Former Tory MP Louise Mensch and the Russian embassy in the UK engage in an unusual Twitter spat on the weekend over the deteriorating situation in Ukraine.
Russia’s defence ministry dismisses claims that it had threatened Ukrainian troops in Crimea with a “real assault” if they did not surrender by the early hours of Tuesday morning as “utter nonsense”.