Section: The Australian (Australia)
Russian aid trucks lift Ukraine tensions
THE West has rebuked Russia for sending trucks from an aid convoy to east Ukraine’s rebel-held Luhansk in a move Kiev decried as an “invasion”. …read more Source: THE...
UN meeting over Russia aid convoy
THE UN Security Council, which includes Australia, was to hold emergency consultations after Russia sent an aid convoy into eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: THE...
Convoy a sign of invasion: Kiev
UKRAINE has accused Moscow of invading after Russia unilaterally sent the first part of its aid convoy into eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: THE...
Civilian toll mounts from Ukraine clashes
A UKRAINIAN warplane has been blown out of the sky over rebel-held territory as Kiev ramped up its offensive ahead of key talks. …read more Source: THE...
Headway made on Ukraine
RUSSIA says “certain progress” was reached on all issues discussed at Ukraine crisis talks in Berlin. …read more Source: THE...
Ukrainians pawns in Putin’s game
MY close friends in Lugansk have been drinking industrial water for weeks — the price ordinary Ukrainians are paying for Putin’s ambitions. …read more Source: THE...
Rebels defiant as Ukraine boasts gains
ARMY troops have entered a rebel-controlled city in eastern Ukraine in what could prove a breakthrough development in the conflict, Ukraine says. …read more Source: THE...
European leaders meet over Ukraine
EUROPEAN leaders are scrambling to defuse tensions in Ukraine with crisis talks that will be held in Berlin. …read more Source: THE...
Ukraine ‘attacks Russian tanks’
UKRAINE has said it destroyed part of a Russian armoured column on its territory in an incursion that has sent tensions rocketing. …read more Source: THE...
US warns Russia over Ukraine convoy
RAISING the stakes in Ukraine’s conflict, a Russian aid convoy of more than 200 trucks pushed up to the border but then stopped. …read more Source: THE...
