Section: The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Ukraine president says 9000 Russian troops are backing separatists
Holding aloft a piece of the bus in which 13 were killed by a rocket, Petro Poroshenko delivered an emotional address at the World Economic Forum in Davos. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Deadly battle for Ukraine’s Donetsk airport flares
The airport has been the flashpoint of an upsurge in violence in Ukraine in recent days that has left a September truce in tatters, …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Russia and Ukraine bicker as separatists renew attack on airport
Russia has expressed concern at what it calls escalation of aggression by Kiev and pro-Russian separatists have renewed their attacks on Donetsk airport. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Ukraine retakes most of Donetsk airport from rebels, military says
Ukrainian troops launched a “mass operation” and have retaken almost all the territory of Donetsk airport in eastern Ukraine lost to separatists in recent weeks, military spokesman says. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Fighting rages at airport, new Ukraine peace talks elusive
Fighting raged at the international airport in the big Ukrainian city of Donetsk as a fresh attempt to resume peace talks to end the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine failed. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Ukraine warns of Russian military build-up as new violence rocks the east
Ukraine has renewed accusations of a Russian military build up on its border and approved fresh troop mobilisations as a wave of violence threatened all-out conflict in the country’s war-torn east. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
‘Stray’ long-range rocket hits passenger bus in eastern Ukraine, killing 10
Pro-Russian insurgents are being blamed after a rocket fired from a checkpoint appeared to go astray and struck a bus. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
‘Stray’ long-range rocket hits city bus in eastern Ukraine, killing 10
Pro-Russian insurgents are being blamed after a rocket fired from a checkpoint appeared to go astray and struck a bus. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Ousted Ukraine leader Viktor Yanukovych wanted by Interpol
An arrest warrant has been issued for Viktor Yanukovych, the former Ukrainian president who has been living in exile in Moscow since his ouster. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Angela Merkel tells Vladimir Putin: No Ukraine summit without progress on Minsk peace plan
German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants real progress on the Minsk peace plan before considering a summit on the Ukraine situation. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
