Section: Australia
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Ukraine far-right leader made army advisor in move to control militias (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – The controversial leader of Ukraine’s ultra-nationalist Pravy Sektor paramilitary group, which is fighting pro-Russian rebels alongside government troops, was made an army advisor Monday as Kiev seeks to tighten its control over volunteer fighters. …read more Source: The West...
Six Ukraine soldiers killed as war reaches year-point (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Six Ukrainian troops were killed by landmines in the restive separatist-held east Sunday, breaking a lull of several days in a conflict that began a year ago this week. …read more Source: The West...
Explosions threaten to shatter the fragile truce in Ukraine
Six Ukrainian soldiers were killed and two wounded in a pair of car explosions on Sunday after President Petro Poroshenko vowed to push for international peacekeepers to help secure a truce in the rebel-controlled east. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Six Ukrainian soldiers killed in rebel-held east (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Six Ukrainian troops were killed in two separate incidents in the troubled separatist-held east Sunday as isolated clashes continue to violate a fragile ceasefire to end the year-long war, officials said. …read more Source: The West...
Disabled Ukraine fighters hanker for return to front (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Parts of their bodies burnt to a putrid pulp, separatist rebels mutilated in a year of conflict between pro- and anti-Russian fighters in eastern Ukraine lie in their hospital beds still hankering to return to the front. …read more Source: The West...
Three soldiers killed in restive east Ukraine (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Three Ukrainian soldiers died when a mine exploded in the separatist-held east where isolated clashes continue to undermine a ceasefire aimed at ending a year-long war. …read more Source: The West...
Three soldiers killed in east Ukraine (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Three soldiers died when a mine exploded in Ukraine’s separatist-held east where isolated clashes continue to undermine a ceasefire aimed at ending a year-long war. …read more Source: The West...
Divided but not defeated, Ukrainians seek to heal war wounds (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Kiev resident Anna Okhrimenko stopped speaking Russian after Moscow annexed Crimea last year, and does not think much of her pro-Russian compatriots caught up in the year-long war raging in Ukraine’s east. …read more Source: The West...
Fragile ceasefire a dark joke to many in east Ukraine (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – With heavily-armed men patrolling the streets, shootings in the dark of night and the echo of gunfire from the airport, life is far from normal in the east Ukraine city of Donetsk weeks after the signing of a ceasefire. …read more Source: The West...
Russia pulls plug on Crimean Tatar TV sparking Ukraine outrage (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Russian authorities on Wednesday shut down a television channel serving Crimean Tatars, an ethnic group that opposed Moscow’s seizure of Crimea, sparking concern in Ukraine and the West. …read more Source: The West...
