Section: The West Australian (Australia)
Ukrainian POWs comb ruins of Donetsk airport for dead comrades (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Rebel fighters with Kalashnikovs watched over a dust-covered group of captured Ukrainian soldiers as they searched with their hands through the apocalyptic jumble of smashed concrete and twisted metal that is Donetsk airport. …read more Source: The West...
Eight Spanish combatants arrested after returning from Ukraine (AFP)
Madrid (AFP) – Police on Friday arrested eight Spaniards who they said had returned from fighting alongside pro-Russian forces in eastern Ukraine, sources close to the investigation said. …read more Source: The West...
UN to discuss Ukraine on anniversary of Crimea annexation (AFP)
Artemivsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – The UN Security Council on Friday was to hold an emergency session on the fragile truce in Ukraine, a year to the day since Russian troops and pro-Moscow forces began seizing ports and cities on the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea. …read more Source: The West...
Ukrainian pilot could ‘die within days’ in Russian jail (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – The health of a hunger-striking Ukrainian pilot held in a Russian jail has deteriorated significantly and she “could die within days,” a member of the Kremlin’s human rights council said on Friday. …read more Source: The West...
UN Security Council to meet on Ukraine Friday (AFP)
United Nations (United States) (AFP) – The UN Security Council is to hold an emergency session on Friday on the ceasefire deal in eastern Ukraine that is showing tentative signs of taking hold, diplomats said. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine pass to enter rebel zones spurs corruption (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – The frontline slicing across east Ukraine is more than a boundary fought over by the army and pro-Russian forces; it is also a partition many Ukrainian civilians in the separatist-held zone need to cross to live their lives. …read more Source: The West...
Tense Ukraine port city braces for feared rebel offensive (AFP)
Mariupol (Ukraine) (AFP) – Pensioner Anatoliy gestures at a row of burnt out cars as he worries about what might be in store for his east Ukraine hometown — the frontline port city of Mariupol. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine poised to pull back arms while US, Russia trade barbs (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine’s army awaited orders to pull back weapons from the frontline Thursday as a shaky truce settled, while the United States and Russia traded blame for delays in the peace plan. …read more Source: The West...
West sanctions threat shows ‘unwillingness’ in Ukraine truce (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Russia on Thursday called Western threats of fresh sanctions against Moscow evidence that Washington and Brussels are not working for the success of a troubled truce in Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Red Cross warns against ‘politicising humanitarian aid’ for Ukraine (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross spoke out Tuesday against “politicising” the issue of humanitarian assistance for war-torn eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
