Section: Australia
- ABC News (Australia) (311)
- NEWS.com.au (Australia) (203)
- SBS (Australia) (245)
- The West Australian (Australia) (2,557)
EU signs association accords with Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova (AFP)
Brussels (AFP) – The European Union on Friday signed association accords with Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova as the three former Soviet republics committed themselves to a future in Europe. …read more Source: The West...
Four OSCE observers freed by pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Four OSCE observers who were abducted on May 26 by pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine have been freed and have arrived at a hotel in Donetsk, a separatist leader said. …read more Source: The West...
Rebels attack Ukraine military compound despite truce (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Pro-Russian rebels launched an attack on Thursday on a Ukrainian irregular troops unit in the heart of the eastern industrial city of Donetsk, an AFP reporter at the scene said. …read more Source: The West...
Europe presses Putin to save shaky Ukraine truce (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – European leaders heaped pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday to help Ukraine’s new Western-backed leader save a shaky truce and fledgling talks on ending a separatist insurgency threatening his ex-Soviet state. …read more Source: The West...
Slavyansk, a ghost town under siege (AFP)
Slavyansk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Dawn had barely broken when shelling began in the rebel bastion of Slavyansk, a ghost town emptied of half its people and besieged by Ukrainian government forces. …read more Source: The West...
Russian MPs revoke Putin’s power to send troops to Ukraine
Russia’s upper chamber of parliament has voted to scrap a resolution allowing president Vladimir Putin to send troops into Ukraine. …read more Source: ABC...
Jagland re-elected as Council of Europe head (AFP)
Strasbourg (France) (AFP) – The Council of Europe said Tuesday that Thorbjoern Jagland had been elected to a second five-year term at the head of the pan-European body that has recently played an active role in the Ukraine crisis. …read more Source: The West...
Putin renounces Ukraine military intervention
Russian president Vladimir Putin has asked Russia’s upper house to revoke the right it granted him to pursue military intervention in Ukraine as deadly clashes continue in the east of the country. …read more Source: ABC...
Ukraine truce in peril as rebels down chopper, killing nine (AFP)
Slavyansk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukraine’s new leader threatened on Tuesday to revoke his truce after pro-Russian rebels downed an army helicopter despite ceasefire orders from their own commander, killing nine servicemen. …read more Source: The West...
Russia’s Putin renounces right to send troops to Ukraine as helicopter shot down
President Vladimir Putin asked Russia’s upper house on Tuesday to revoke the right it had granted him to order a military intervention in Ukraine in defence of Russian-speakers there. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
