Bloomberg The US said Russia has massed as many as 190,000 personnel — including troops, National Guard units and Russian-backed separatists – in and around Ukraine in what it called the most significant military mobilisation since World War II. Russia told the US that it has no plans to attack, and officials in Moscow have repeatedly dismissed US warnings about ...

Bloomberg Russia’s buildup near the Ukrainian border is likely to secure the Kremlin a stronger negotiating position as the possibility remains that tensions are resolved peacefully, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said. “I still believe in the peaceful solution of this conflict,” Nauseda said in an interview with Bloomberg Television in Brussels. “Yes, there are a lot of rumors — we ...

  Bloomberg One potent force is emerging from the torpid dispute over Northern Ireland between the UK and European Union, and the potential consequences could redraw the map more dramatically than Brexit. Sinn Fein, whose ultimate goal is a united Ireland and the end of British rule, is leading the polls ahead of critical elections to Belfast’s power-sharing assembly on ...