Section: The West Australian (Australia)
Canada, Ukraine formalize defense cooperation (AFP)
Ottawa (AFP) – Canada and Ukraine formalized a defense pact Monday that would see Canada continue to offer military training and share combat expertise. …read more Source: The West...
Kiev slams Eurovision call to allow Russian singer (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine on Saturday complained of “unprecedented and unacceptable” calls from the Eurovision Song Contest’s organisers for it to lift an entry ban on Russia’s contestant. …read more Source: The West...
Eurovision threatens to ban Ukraine over Russian singer row (AFP)
Berlin (AFP) – The organisers of the Eurovision song contest have threatened to ban Ukraine from future competitions unless it allows Russia’s entrant to enter the country and take part in this year’s show which Kiev is hosting. …read more Source: The West...
Tillerson demands US’s NATO allies pay up (AFP)
Brussels (AFP) – US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson pressed NATO allies Friday to ramp up military spending and denounced Russia’s “aggression” in Ukraine, toughening the Trump administration’s tone toward Moscow. …read more Source: The West...
Russia’s largest bank pulls out of Ukraine (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Russia’s Sberbank, the largest in the country, on Tuesday announced it had sold its Ukraine division, where operations have been complicated since Moscow’s annexation of Crimea. …read more Source: The West...
One dead after blasts at eastern Ukraine arms depot (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine on Friday said that one person has died as a result of a fire that broke out at an arms depot in the country’s east, sparking explosions and forcing a mass evacuation. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine struggles to contain arms depot fire, blames ‘sabotage’ (AFP)
Balakliya (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukraine said Thursday that a fire raging at a munitions depot in the country’s east, which the military blamed on an “act of sabotage”, could continue for up to a week. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine says ‘state terrorism’ by Moscow behind murder of Russian ex-MP (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – A former Russian MP wanted by Moscow for fraud was shot dead in broad daylight in the heart of the Ukrainian capital on Thursday in what Kiev branded “state terrorism. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine probes arms depot explosion, military blames ‘sabotage’ (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine on Thursday was probing a series of explosions that hit a munitions depot in the country’s east overnight as the military blamed the incident on an “act of sabotage”. …read more Source: The West...
Kremlin hopes Kiev’s Eurovision ban ‘will be reconsidered’ (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – The Kremlin said Thursday that it hoped Kiev would reconsider its decision to ban a Russian singer from the Eurovision Song Contest over a past performance in Russia-annexed Crimea. …read more Source: The West...
