Section: The West Australian (Australia)
Russian activists say find fresh graves of soldiers killed in Ukraine (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Russian opposition activists investigating the deaths of three special forces soldiers said Wednesday their findings indicate that elite Russian army reconnaissance units are operating in Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine charges two suspected Russian soldiers with ‘terrorist activity’ (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine has charges two suspected Russian soldiers who were captured during a gun battle in the separatist eastern region of Lugansk with involvement in “terrorist activity,” a security official said Wednesday. …read more Source: The West...
Poroshenko says Ukraine waging ‘real war’ with Russia (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said in an interview broadcast on Wednesday that his crisis-torn country was fighting a “real war” with Russia that could escalate at any time. …read more Source: The West...
Ex-Soviet Georgia urges EU progress, despite Russian pressure (AFP)
Tbilisi (AFP) – Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili has warned European Union leaders against letting Russian aggression in Ukraine undermine the bloc’s project of building closer links with ex-Soviet nations. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine takes first step toward debt payment freeze (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine’s cash-starved government took the first step Tuesday toward freezing the payment of billions of dollars in sovereign and state-backed debt owed to some of the world’s most powerful creditors. …read more Source: The West...
Kiev shows off captured ‘Russian soldiers’ to media (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Kiev on Tuesday showed off two purported Russian soldiers it captured during a gun battle with separatist fighters in the industrial east of the war-wrecked state. …read more Source: The West...
Sweden’s Carl Bildt advises Ukraine President and Russian group (AFP)
Stockholm (AFP) – Sweden’s former foreign minister Carl Bildt has been appointed as an advisor to Russian-controlled investment group LetterOne, the company said Monday, just days after he joined an advisory group to Ukraine’s President. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine vows to show off ‘captured Russian soldiers’ (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine vowed on Monday to present to the public two Russian soldiers it claimed to have captured while fighting Moscow-backed forces in the separatist east. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine president enacts controversial laws banning Soviet symbols (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Friday enacted laws banning Soviet symbols and communist-era propaganda, his office said, after the measures drew strong Russian criticism when they were approved by parliament last month. …read more Source: The West...
France offers Russia 785 mn euros to ditch warship deal: report (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – France has offered Russia its terms to scrap a contentious contract to supply two warships that was suspended due to the Ukraine crisis, but Moscow judged the sum as unacceptable, a report said Friday. …read more Source: The West...
