Section: Australia
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A desperate train trip from Donetsk
JOURNALIST Charles Miranda records the scenes as thousands of residents flee the city of Donetsk, believing that war is coming to the Ukrainian city. …read more Source:...
Dyczynskis fly to Ukraine for daughter (AAP)
The Perth-based parents of Fatima Dyczynski have flown to Ukraine to search for their daughter who was on MH17, despite warnings that it is “ill-advised”. …read more Source: The West...
Bishop pushes for access to MH17 site (AAP)
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has flown to Kiev to push for safe access to the MH17 crash site as three Australian officials arrived at ground zero. …read more Source: The West...
Julie Bishop arrives in Kiev for MH17 talks
Julie Bishop has arrived at the Dutch embassy in Kiev for a day of talks with Ukrainian officials about the MH17 disaster. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Ukraine could be heading to polls
TWO political parties have cut ties with Ukraine’s majority coalition in order to force an early election which some hope will rid the parliament of ‘Moscow agents’. …read more Source:...
Fighting rages near MH17 crash site in Ukraine (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Fighting between Ukrainian troops and rebels raged Thursday near the crash site of Malaysian flight MH17, as experts in Britain begin analysing crucial data from the downed airliner’s black boxes. …read more Source: The West...
Aussie investigators to see MH17 site
THREE Australian officials including Angus Houston will visit the MH17 crash site for the first time today after Tony Abbott said 50 AFP officers were on stand-by to go to Ukraine. …read more Source:...
MH17 evokes both sorrow and trepidation among flight attendants
The flight attendants stand out. They come in groups of one and two, sometimes larger, like cabin crews arriving straight from a just-landed plane. They come to place flowers outside Terminal 3 at Schiphol Amsterdam Airport, where Malaysia Airlines flight 17 departed for a final time last Thursday before it was shot down over eastern Ukraine....
Fighters downed ‘from Russian soil’
TWO Ukrainian fighter jets have been shot down in the rebel-held area where Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashed. …read more Source: THE...
Victim’s phones ‘being answered’
MOBILE phones belonging to MH17 victims are being answered by ‘eastern-European voices’ as their bodies arrive in the Netherlands and fighting in Ukraine intensifies. …read more Source:...
