Section: The West Australian (Australia)
EU ready for ‘necessary steps’ if Ukraine pact breached: Tusk (AFP)
Brussels (AFP) – The EU warned Russia Thursday it was ready to take further measures in addition to the sanctions it has already imposed if a new Ukraine peace pact is breached, the bloc’s president Donald Tusk said. …read more Source: The West...
EU will ‘take necessary steps’ if Ukraine pact breached: Tusk (AFP)
Brussels (AFP) – The EU is ready to take further measures in addition to the Russia sanctions it has already imposed if a new Ukraine peace pact agreed on Thursday is breached, the bloc’s president Donald Tusk said. …read more Source: The West...
Chronology of marathon negotiations on a Ukraine accord (AFP)
Minsk (AFP) – The marathon talks in Minsk that led to Thursday’s Ukraine peace plan were punctuated with rumours, leaks, quips and arresting gazes by alternatively weary and incensed officials rotating in and out of negotiations. …read more Source: The West...
Peace deal no solution to Russia-Ukraine conflict: analysts (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – The Ukraine ceasefire deal agreed Thursday appears little more than a sticking plaster that will allow Kiev and Ukraine rebels to wind down the fighting but leaves thorny questions on resolving the conflict unanswered, analysts said. …read more Source: The West...
Merkel, the woman in the middle of European crises (AFP)
Berlin (AFP) – Germany’s Angela Merkel was the first to concede after a Ukraine peace plan was reached in Minsk that “big hurdles” remain to silence the guns, but many are already hailing her as Europe’s peacemaker-in-chief. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine deal: West cautious, rebels victorious, civilians sceptical (AFP)
Minsk (AFP) – Western European leaders voiced cautious optimism after hammering out a Ukraine peace plan in Minsk on Thursday, hailed as a great victory by pro-Russian rebels but met with scepticism by war-weary civilians. …read more Source: The West...
Key points of new Ukraine peace plan (AFP)
Minsk (AFP) – Kiev and pro-Russian rebels agreed a peace roadmap Thursday after marathon negotiations in Minsk involving the leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Putin says rebels want encircled Ukraine troops to surrender (AFP)
Minsk (AFP) – Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that pro-Russian rebels had encircled up to 8,000 Ukrainian troops and expected them to surrender ahead of a ceasefire. …read more Source: The West...
Fleeing war at home, Ukrainians seek security in Poland (AFP)
Warsaw (AFP) – For a rising number of Ukrainians, Poland is looking like the promised land as the war at home forces them to seek safe haven in their European Union neighbour. …read more Source: The West...
Putin and Poroshenko shake hands: Russian television (AFP)
Minsk (AFP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Wednesday briefly shook hands at the start of crunch peace talks in Minsk, in footage shown live on Russian state television. …read more Source: The West...
