Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Putin is gambling on us forgetting Ukraine

The West must stand united behind Kiev and reject the Russian president’s Cold War strategy
The tough 34-year-old Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko is a high profile prisoner in a forgotten war. She left school at 16 to train as a paratrooper, served in Iraq, persuaded her country’s macho top brass to let her become the first female cadet in Kharkiv air academy, qualified to fly helicopters and the Sukhoi Su-24 bomber. When the Russians stoked up a separatist rebellion in eastern Ukraine she had herself... 

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