Backlash escalated on July 17 against U.S. President Donald J. Trump over his failure to confront Russian President Vladimir Putin a day earlier for a host of Kremlin crimes: invasion of Ukraine and annexation of its Crimean peninsula; backing of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s war against his own people; the shooting down of MH17 on July 17, 2014, killing 298 people; the chemical-weapons poisonings in the United Kingdom; his interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and other European democratic elections. The list could go on. How bad was the meeting and subsequent press conference? Read the transcript or watch the press conference to see why people have called Trump a traitor, a disgrace, a disaster and Putin’s subordinate in what has been labeled the “appeasement summit.”
We round up some of the most interesting commentary of what the Trump-Putin meeting means for Ukraine in the opinion section.
Other news:
A great interview with Ukrainian Yurii Antoniuk, CEO of EPAM, Ukrainian’s largest tech company with more than 5,500 employees and growing — with the aim of helping Ukraine become a prosperous country.
The European Union calls on Russia to admit its responsibility for shooting down the Malaysian MH17 flight, killing all 298 people on board.
Physical confrontations took place after anti-corruption activists demanded the firing or Ukrainian Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor Nazar Kholodnytsky, accused of sabotaging cases. It looks like Ukraine’s government is backing Kholodnytsky and Interior Minister Arsen Avakov is accused of sending goons led by Ilia Kiva to clash with the protesters.
Evidence mounted that not only did Ukraine’s security services allow the illlegal extraditiion of two Turkish citizens, SBU agents carried out at least one of the arrests.
The European Union, Ukraine and Russia are trying to come to an agreement that continues Russian transport of natural gas to Europe through Ukraine.
Journalist Dmitzry Halko gets four years in prison for…offending Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko somehow.
Russian activists brave arrest to support Kremlin political prisoner film director Oleg Sentsov.
The Ukrainian movie “Volcano” has won a prize.
