Section: ABC News (Australia)
Ukraine detains Frenchman planning 15 attacks at Euro 2016: security service
A French citizen detained in late May on the Ukrainian-Polish border had been planning a string of attacks in France to coincide with the UEFA Euro 2016 soccer championship there. …read more Source: ABC...
Seventeen die in fire at Ukraine home for elderly: official
Seventeen people are dead after a makeshift home for elderly people outside the Ukrainian capital Kiev caught fire in the early hours of Sunday, local emergency services say. …read more Source: ABC...
Moscow frees jailed Ukraine pilot in prisoner swap
Ukrainian military pilot Nadiya Savchenko arrives home in Kiev after nearly two years in a Russian jail, as part of a prisoner swap in which two Russians held in Ukraine were returned to Moscow. …read more Source: ABC...
‘It was politics that beat art’: Russian officials bash Ukraine’s Eurovision win
Russian lawmakers lash out at arch-rival Ukraine’s “political” victory in the Eurovision song contest, as one pro-Kremlin paper insisted Moscow’s entrant was robbed. …read more Source: ABC...
Ukraine wins Eurovision 2016, Australia comes second
Ukraine’s Jamala takes out the Eurovision Song Contest with a stirring performance dedicated to the people of Crimea, while Australia takes second place. …read more Source: ABC...
Live: Aussies pin hopes on Dami Im to bag Eurovision 2016 win
Will Ukraine finish higher than political foe and hot favourite Russia? Could Czech Republic break the curse of spot number two? And most importantly, can Dami Im bag a landmark win for Australia? Follow live to find out. …read more Source: ABC...
Ukraine remembers Chernobyl victims 30 years on
Ukraine holds memorial services to mark the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster which permanently poisoned swathes of eastern Europe and highlighted the shortcomings of the secretive Soviet system. …read more Source: ABC...
Ukraine parliament approves pro-EU PM
Ukraine’s parliament approves presidential ally Volodymyr Groysman for the post of Prime Minister, in the country’s biggest political shakeup since a 2014 uprising brought in a pro-Western leadership. …read more Source: ABC...
Embattled Ukraine PM resigns over ‘artificially created political crisis’
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announces his resignation in the wake of a months-long political crisis that paralysed the government and stopped the release of vital Western aid. …read more Source: ABC...
Russian court begins delivering verdict in Ukraine pilot trial
A Russian court begins delivering the verdict in the high-profile murder trial of Ukrainian helicopter pilot Nadiya Savchenko, which Kiev and the West have slammed as a political sham. …read more Source: ABC...
