Section: Australia
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Russia shelling Ukraine across the countries’ shared border, according to forensic analysis
Satellite images on Google Earth prove that Russia has been shelling Ukraine across the countries’ shared border, according to a new forensic analysis of 1353 artillery craters in Eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Kiev demands ‘tough’ response against Russia over broken truce (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko on Tuesday demanded a “tough reaction” from the West against Russia over a broken ceasefire deal in a phone call with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, his office said. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine says peace hopes ‘destroyed’ as rebels assault town (AFP)
Soledar (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukraine on Tuesday accused rebels and Russia of scuppering a fragile three-day-old ceasefire after insurgents armed with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades stormed a flashpoint town and engaged thousands of troops there in intense combat. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine truce unravels as battle rages, arms pullback stalls
Pro-Russian rebels and government forces fought street-to-street in a strategic town in east Ukraine on Tuesday and refused to pull back their heavy guns, all but scuppering hopes that a European-brokered peace deal will end months of conflict. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Patriotism and fear as Ukraine draftees train for front (AFP)
Desna (Ukraine) (AFP) – Vitaliy Karpunets crawls under barbed wire before jumping over a smoking bonfire into a trench as he fires off his Kalashnikov at an imaginary enemy. …read more Source: The West...
Truce in tatters as fighting erupts
THE days-old Ukraine ceasefire has unravelled after pro-Russian separatists attacked a key railway hub with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades. …read more Source:...
Ukraine peace deal close to collapse
Government forces and pro-Russian separatists said they would not carry out an agreement to pull back heavy guns in east Ukraine, pushing a shaky peace deal closer to collapse. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Russia tanks threaten Ukraine ceasefire
A TWO-DAY-OLD ceasefire in east Ukraine may be unravelling as footage appears to show Russian tanks near the front line. …read more Source: THE...
Ukraine rebels bury dead who fell hours before ceasefire (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – After the coffins of four pro-Russian fighters killed hours before the Ukrainian ceasefire were lowered into the ground on Monday in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk, their comrades fired Kalashnikov rifles into the icy air in a final salute. …read more Source: The West...
‘Stop shooting’ EU pleads as Ukraine ceasefire teeters (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – A two-day-old truce in Ukraine was at risk of collapsing Monday as fighting raged around a strategic railway hub and both sides said conditions were not met to start withdrawing heavy weapons from the frontline. …read more Source: The West...
