Section: NEWS.com.au (Australia)
Ukraine ‘mass grave discovered’
A UN team aims to travel to an area near Donetsk in eastern Ukraine to look into reports of the discovery of a mass grave. …read more Source:...
Rebels vow to hold own elections
PRO-RUSSIAN rebels have defiantly announced they will stage their own elections in November, despite just signing a peace deal with Kiev. …read more Source:...
Russians protest Ukraine fighting
TENS of thousands of people have marched through central Moscow to demonstrate against the fighting in Ukraine and Russia’s alleged role in the conflict. …read more Source:...
MH17 families to sue Ukraine pres
RELATIVES of German victims of downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 plan to sue Ukraine’s president for not closing the country’s airspace. …read more Source:...
Buffer zone agreed to in Ukraine
FIGHTING has continued in Ukraine hours after an agreement to create a buffer zone between government troops and pro-Russian militants. …read more Source:...
‘We won’t shut the door on Putin’
VLADIMIR Putin is set to attend the G20 leaders’ summit in Brisbane in November despite alarm over Russia’s actions in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Ukraine, rebels sign peace plan
THE UKRAINIAN Government and pro-Russian separatists have agreed to stop fighting and create a 30km demilitarised zone in order to bring lasting peace to eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Bishop attacks Russia over MH17
FOREIGN Minister Julie Bishop has blamed Russia for making the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash site unsafe by arming rebels in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Russia ‘massing troops in Crimea’
UKRAINE has accused Russia of massing 4000 troops along the Crimea border, rattling nerves. …read more Source:...
Politician thrown in rubbish bin
TRASHING politicians has taken on a literal meaning in Ukraine, where angry protesters threw an MP into a skip and pelted him with rubbish. …read more Source:...
