Section: The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Ukraine’s Pro-West, national parties win election
Pro-Western and nationalist parties have scored a crushing victory in Ukraine’s snap parliamentary polls, which were boycotted by pro-Russian rebels in the separatist east, exit polls show. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Ukrainians temper hopes as they head to polls
The elections will probably bring a cadre of new faces to power, further upending Ukraine’s chaotic political system. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
‘We did not start this’: Putin accuses United States of damaging world order
Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the United States on Friday of endangering global security by imposing a “unilateral diktat” on the rest of the world and shifted blame for the Ukraine crisis onto the West. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Ukraine’s election will have implications far beyond its borders
On Sunday Ukrainian voters will vote not only for a government but war or peace, and hence the future of a continent. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Ukraine’s pro-Russian rebels launch contest for national anthem
Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine have launched a song contest to find a national anthem for their breakaway state. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Putin offered to divide Ukraine with Poland: Polish ex-minister
Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed to Poland’s then leader that they divide Ukraine between themselves as far back as 2008, Poland’s parliamentary speaker Radoslaw Sikorski said in an interview published by the U.S. Politico website. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Pro-Russian rebels using seized Ukrainian missile downed MH17 passenger plane, says Germany
Germany’s intelligence service believes flight MH17 was shot down by pro-Russian rebels using a missile taken from a Ukraine military base. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Germany intelligence service concludes pro-Russian rebels downed MH17 passenger plane
Germany’s BND foreign intelligence agency has concluded that pro-Russian rebels are to blame for the downing of Malaysia Airline MH17 in Ukraine in July, Der Spiegel weekly reported on Sunday, the first European agency to say so. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Frustration for Julie Bishop over access to MH17 site
The forensic team identifying MH17 tragedy victims urgently needs one more visit to the crash site in eastern Ukraine before winter sets in, Australia’s foreign minister Julie Bishop says. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Russia can’t be blackmailed by West over Ukraine, Putin Warns Obama
It’s futile for the US and its allies to “blackmail” Russia over the Ukraine crisis, President Vladimir Putin said in a newspaper interview. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
