Section: Australia
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Thirteen killed in Ukraine fighting (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Thirteen soldiers and civilians have died in Ukraine, officials said Monday, in the deadliest surge of violence since the government and pro-Russian insurgents struck a shaky truce in their five-month conflict. …read more Source: The West...
Ukrainians just pulled down a massive Lenin statue. What does that signal for Russia?
Moscow: Anti-Russian protesters in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, pulled down a massive statue of Vladimir Lenin late Sunday, a sign of hardening anger toward the Kremlin in an eastern Ukrainian area where sympathies are split between Kiev and Moscow. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Back to school in Donetsk to sound of mortar fire (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Students returning for the new school year in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday will get real-life conflict lessons as they take their seats in battle-scarred classrooms. …read more Source: The West...
Ukrainian ceasefire shows strain as troops shelled
Seven Ukrainian soldiers were killed when separatist shelling hit their armoured vehicle near Donetsk airport in eastern Ukraine, putting a fragile ceasefire under further strain. …read more Source: ABC...
Ukraine troop withdrawal in doubt after 12 killed (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – The shaky truce between pro-Russian rebels and the Ukrainian military was challenged Monday when 12 soldiers and civilians were reported killed in a surge of fighting across the separatist east. …read more Source: The West...
Twelve dead in eastern Ukraine despite truce (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Nine Ukrainian soldiers and at least three civilians died in eastern Ukraine over the past day despite a ceasefire, officials said Monday. …read more Source: The West...
Ukrainian nationalists topple massive Lenin in Kharkiv (AFP)
Kharkiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Pro-Ukrainian protesters in eastern Ukraine’s city Kharkiv on Sunday toppled a giant Lenin statue seen as a symbol of Soviet legacy and Moscow’s control. …read more Source: The West...
Echoes of the past at Ukraine’s rebel-held WWII monument (AFP)
Snizhne (Ukraine) (AFP) – The Savur-Mohyla memorial in east Ukraine, commemorating thousands of Russian and German soldiers who perished in World War II, stood for decades as testament to the strategic hill’s bloodstained history. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine truce hangs in the balance as troops prepare to pull back
Ukraine was last night waiting to see if a Russian-backed truce lasted before starting to withdraw forces from a frontline against pro-Moscow separatist rebels stretching across the war-torn east. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Ukraine, pro-Russia rebels eye troop pullback (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine held back to see whether a Russian-backed truce would hold through the day before beginning its own withdrawal of forces from the frontline stretching across the war-torn country’s separatist east. …read more Source: The West...
