Section: The West Australian (Australia)
Civilians flee Ukraine hotspot by bus after truce agreed (AFP)
Debaltseve (Ukraine) (AFP) – Terrified civilians piled onto a convoy of buses Friday as they took advantage of a brief truce to flee the east Ukraine battleground town of Debaltseve. …read more Source: The West...
Fighting traps children underground in east Ukraine (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – As the shelling came closer to 10-year-old Artyom’s neighbourhood, he was forced to swap his local playground for a bunker — just like children across rebel-held east Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Ten months of bloodshed in Ukraine (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Here are key dates in the conflict between pro-Moscow separatists and government forces in eastern Ukraine that has left more than 5,300 dead since April 2014, according to the United Nations. …read more Source: The West...
Key points of Ukraine’s tattered peace protocol (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande head to Moscow on Friday to present a new peace plan to Russian leader Vladimir Putin to end separatist violence in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine ‘fighting for very survival’: Biden (AFP)
Brussels (AFP) – The United States and Europe must stand together over Ukraine as it battles for survival in the face of escalating Russian military involvement, Vice President Joe Biden said during a visit to Brussels on Friday. …read more Source: The West...
Buses to take civilians from Ukraine town after truce agreed (AFP)
Debaltseve (Ukraine) (AFP) – Convoys of buses arrived in Ukraine’s frontline town of Debaltseve on Friday to take besieged civilians to safety after both sides agreed a brief humanitarian truce, an AFP correspondent said. …read more Source: The West...
Berlin-Paris Ukraine bid aims to defend ‘European peace’: Merkel (AFP)
Berlin (AFP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday that she and French President Francois Hollande’s initiative for conflict-wracked Ukraine was aimed at defending “European peace”. …read more Source: The West...
Merkel, Hollande bring peace plan to Kiev before Moscow push (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande flew to Kiev Thursday with a new peace plan, in the biggest diplomatic push yet to halt an upsurge in deadly fighting in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine to lobby US for arms (AFP)
Ukraine’s leaders are likely to lobby US Secretary of State John Kerry for arms as fighting escalates in the country’s east. …read more Source: The West...
NATO agrees to boost defences in eastern Europe (AFP)
Brussels (AFP) – NATO defence ministers agreed to immediately set up six bases in eastern Europe and establish a spearhead force of 5,000 troops in response to Russian aggression in Ukraine, alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday. …read more Source: The West...
