Ash: “Throughout this crisis Russia has sought to mask its intentions and has been engaged in a sophisticated PR campaign, often saying one thing while doing and preparing for another. This may still all be part of that strategy, of wrong footing its opponents.”

New York Times: “NATO officials said that they saw no immediate sign that Russian forces had pulled back, news services reported from NATO’s headquarters in Brussels. A White House spokesman, Josh Earnest, told reporters traveling with President Obama aboard Air Force One that while the United States would welcome a Russian military pullback from the Ukraine border region, ‘there has been no evidence that such a withdrawal has taken place.’”

The Dubai-based carrier chose Kyiv’s Zhuliany, one of Kyiv’s two international airports as a destination early in the airline’s history. 

 

As the fallout from unrest in Ukraine ripples out across capital markets, bankers say some investors are viewing the Middle East as a relative haven.

 

The award is not just well-deserved recognition for Dzhemilev, one of the great leaders of the fight against Stalinist oppression of the Tatar people. It is also thought to be a deliberate poke in the eye of Vladimir Putin for his hypocritical “rehabilitation” of the Tatars while at the same time allowing the illegal Crimean government to refuse entry of Dzhemilev to his own homeland for five years.

Russia’s actions in Ukraine will trigger another sanction in July this year as Russian banks become subject to stringent new tax regulations on accounts held in foreign banks.

 

“By Tuesday morning, Ukrainian forces had taken hold of a key checkpoint north of the city, dealing a blow to insurgent lines of communication.”

 

Big UX news was Ukrnafta’s +3.9% gain after six previous losing sessions.

Ukraine-related damage appears to be motivation for the huge goodwill downturn

Jerusalem Post: “Odesa’s Jews are prepared to evacuate should the violence in the western Ukrainian city get significantly worse…”

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