Section: The West Australian (Australia)
EU set to add to sanctions blacklist over Ukraine (AFP)
Brussels (AFP) – EU foreign ministers will add names to a blacklist of individuals sanctioned over the Ukraine crisis when they meet Thursday but stop short of new measures targeting Russia’s economy, sources said. …read more Source: The West...
Greece-EU clash spreads to Russia sanctions (AFP)
Brussels (AFP) – Greece has created a new headache for the EU by questioning sanctions against Russia over Ukraine but is unlikely to block them for fear of harming its own debt negotiations, analysts and sources say. …read more Source: The West...
Poroshenko and US press Putin on Ukraine violence (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine’s president appealed to Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Washington threatened tougher measures Wednesday should Moscow fail to rein in separatist fighters mounting a new offensive in the east of the ex-Soviet republic. …read more Source: The West...
Poroshenko presses Putin to rein in Ukraine rebels (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Wednesday he had written a letter to Russia’s Vladimir Putin demanding that Moscow rein in eastern separatist fighters in his war-torn ex-Soviet republic. …read more Source: The West...
US threatens tougher action against Russia over Ukraine (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said on Wednesday that Washington was ready to increase sanctions on Russia over its actions in war-torn Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
EU threatens new Russia sanctions over Ukraine violence (AFP)
Brussels (AFP) – European Union leaders on Tuesday threatened new sanctions against Russia over a bloody offensive by pro-Kremlin Ukrainian rebels, the latest bid to pressure a defiant President Vladimir Putin. …read more Source: The West...
Russian riot police raid Crimean Tatar TV channel (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Masked Russian riot police on Monday raided the office of a television channel serving Crimean Tatars, a minority ethnic group in Crimea that opposed Moscow’s seizure of the peninsula from Ukraine last year. …read more Source: The West...
Attack on Ukraine’s Mariupol targeted civilians: UN (AFP)
United Nations (United States) (AFP) – A rocket attack on the Ukrainian city of Mariupol that killed 30 people at the weekend deliberately targeted civilians and the perpetrators must be brought to justice, a senior UN official said Monday. …read more Source: The West...
Putin brands Ukraine army a NATO proxy as fighting flares (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – President Vladimir Putin on Monday ridiculed the Ukrainian army as NATO’s “foreign legion”, ignoring Western pressure on the Kremlin to rein in a pro-Russian insurgency that has gone on the offensive across eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Shelling briefly traps 500 miners in east Ukraine (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Nearly 500 coal miners in Ukraine’s war-torn east were briefly trapped underground on Monday after their pit lost power when a shell hit an electricity substation. …read more Source: The West...
