Section: Australia
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Ukraine launches missile drills near Russia-annexed Crimea (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine on Thursday unleashed a barrage of missile tests near Russian-annexed Crimea in a show of strength and defiance bound to irritate Moscow. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine prepares missile test near Crimea, angering Russia
Ukraine was due to start two days of missile tests on Thursday – a move that has angered Russia, prompting it to put its air defence forces on high alert on the annexed Crimea peninsula. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Contagious H5 bird flu virus found in Ukraine, Egypt
samples were taken from the dead birds and showed a positive result for highly pathogenic H5 avian influenza. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Ukraine warns Russia of missile tests near Crimea (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine ratcheted up tensions with Moscow on Wednesday by warning the Kremlin its army intended to hold two days of missile-launching exercises near the border with Russian-annexed Crimea. …read more Source: The West...
‘No progress’ at Ukraine peace meeting: Lavrov (AFP)
Minsk (AFP) – Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said the meeting on Tuesday with his Ukrainian, French and German counterparts made “no progress” in ending the war between Kiev and pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine moves new safety dome over Chernobyl’s doomed reactor (AFP)
Chernobyl (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukraine on Tuesday unveiled the world’s largest moveable metal structure over the Chernobyl nuclear power plant’s doomed fourth reactor to ensure the safety of Europeans for generations to come. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine’s ex-leader Yanukovych accuses protesters of starting war (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine’s former Moscow-backed president on Monday accused pro-EU protesters who forced his ouster of provoking the 31-month pro-Russian revolt in the southeast that has claimed nearly 10,000 lives. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine ex-president ‘regrets’ not calling in army (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Ukraine’s ousted former president Viktor Yanukovych said Friday he regretted “not having called in the army and declared martial law” in his bid to crush a pro-EU revolt in February 2014. …read more Source: The West...
Spain issues arrest warrant for Ukraine oligarch (AFP)
Madrid (AFP) – Spanish police have announced an international arrest warrant against a powerful Ukrainian oligarch, identified by media Friday as controversial gas magnate Dmytro Firtash. …read more Source: The West...
Belarus to host four-nation Ukraine peace meeting Tuesday (AFP)
Paris (AFP) – The foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany will meet in Belarus next week to try to push Ukraine’s stalled peace process forward, Paris announced Friday. …read more Source: The West...
