Section: ABC News (Australia)
Ukraine suspends trains to Crimea amid security concerns
Ukraine has suspended passenger and cargo train services to the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea due to security concerns. …read more Source: ABC...
MH17: Russian investigators claim proof Ukraine involved in downing of flight
Russian investigators say they have new proof from a witness that a Ukrainian pilot fired a missile on the day of the Malaysia Airlines crash which killed 298 people, including 38 Australians. …read more Source: ABC...
Attacks reported, drone spotted in eastern Ukraine despite ceasefire: military
The Ukrainian army reports 11 attacks against its positions in the east where a ceasefire is tentatively holding, and said a drone was spotted over Mariupol, the last major eastern town under its control. …read more Source: ABC...
Vladimir Putin accuses West of seeking to destroy Russia
Russian president Vladimir Putin accuses the West of seeking to destroy his country and expresses no regret for annexing the Crimea peninsula, during his annual state of the union speech in Moscow. …read more Source: ABC...
Ukraine, rebels agree ‘in principle’ to Lugansk ceasefire
Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels “agree in principle” to a ceasefire in the eastern war-torn region of Lugansk, one of the country’s two separatist provinces, Europe’s security agency says. …read more Source: ABC...
MH17 wreckage to be reassembled at Dutch military base
Wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 recovered from its crash site in eastern Ukraine will be reassembled for an investigation at a military base in the Netherlands, Dutch authorities say. …read more Source: ABC...
NATO says Russia could exert control over the Black Sea
NATO’s top military commander warns Russian militarisation of the annexed Crimea Peninsula could be used to exert control over the whole Black Sea. …read more Source: ABC...
Recovery of MH17 wreckage in Ukraine complete
Dutch experts complete the recovery of wreckage from the crash site of downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine and begin transporting the pieces to the Netherlands. …read more Source: ABC...
Moscow accuses West of seeking ‘regime change’ in Russia
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov accuses the West of seeking to force a regime change in Moscow through sanctions over the Ukraine conflict. …read more Source: ABC...
Ukraine president heckled by relatives of Maidan dead
Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko is shouted down by angry relatives of 100 protesters killed in Kiev’s “Euromaidan” revolution one year ago. They are frustrated by Mr Poroshenko’s failure to bring officials of the previous government to justice. …read more Source: ABC...
