Section: South China Morning Post (China)
Fragment from MH17 crash site supports missile theory, says Dutch broadcaster
A fragment from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 matches a surface-to-air BUK rocket, a Dutch broadcaster said, supporting a theory that the plane was downed by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Putin says he almost put nuclear forces on alert during annexation of Crimea
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was ready to put the country’s nuclear forces on alert as he sought to annex Crimea last year after the fall of a Moscow-backed government in Kiev. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Putin reveals his ordering Russia’s annexation of Crimea
President Vladimir Putin has revealed the moment he says he gave the secret order for Russia’s annexation of Crimea and described how Russian troops were ready to fight to rescue Ukraine’s deposed, pro-Moscow president. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine say withdrawl of their heavy weapons is complete
Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine claimed on Saturday to have completed their end of a February deal with government forces to withdraw heavy weapons from the frontline as part of a truce. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Dozens killed or missing in coal mine blast in rebel-held eastern Ukraine
A blast at a coal mine in the eastern Ukrainian rebel stronghold of Donetsk killed more than 30 people, with dozens more miners who were underground at the time unaccounted for. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Girlfriend of slain Russian opposition leader tearfully tells of killing
The 23-year-old Ukrainian model who was with slain opposition leader Boris Nemtsov tearfully recounted their last dinner in a chic Red Square restaurant and their walk onto a nearby bridge — but said she did not see the gunman who pulled the trigger. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Russian politician Pushkov denounces Charlie Hebdo cartoon on Ukraine
The head of the Russian parliament’s foreign affairs committee, Alexei Pushkov, has denounced a cartoon published in the latest issue of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo on the truce in Ukraine as “abominable”. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Nemtsov murder witness, Ukrainian model Ganna Duritska, ‘blocked from leaving Russia’
The chief witness to the murder of Russian protest leader Boris Nemtsov, a Ukrainian model who was with him when he was shot dead, complained on Monday of being kept under guard in Moscow. …read more Source: South China Morning...
More than 6,000 killed in ‘merciless devastation’ in Ukraine: UN rights chief
More than 6,000 people have been killed since violence erupted in Ukraine last April, the UN rights chief said on Monday, decrying a “merciless devastation of civilian lives and infrastructure.” …read more Source: South China Morning...
Conflict at ‘crossroads’ after troop deaths
International monitors said the conflict in Ukraine was at a “crossroads” as further losses among government forces rattled a two-week-old truce just as it seemed to be gaining traction. …read more Source: South China Morning...
