Section: The West Australian (Australia)
Top diplomats meet to try and save Ukraine peace summit (AFP)
Berlin (AFP) – Foreign ministers from Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France met Monday in Berlin to try and resolve tensions threatening to scupper a planned summit on ending the Ukrainian conflict. …read more Source: The West...
Interpol issues global ‘wanted’ notice for ex-Ukraine leader Yanukovych (AFP)
Lyon (AFP) – Interpol issued a global wanted “red notice” for former Ukraine president Viktor Yanukovych on Monday. …read more Source: The West...
Merkel presses Putin, Ukraine leader on peace efforts (AFP)
Berlin (AFP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke Saturday to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Petro Poroshenko in a bid to arrange a mini-summit that could actually end the ex-Soviet state’s separatist war. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine, Russia raise stakes ahead of peace talks (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine fended off renewed financial pressure from Russia on Saturday by accusing Moscow of orchestrating rebel attacks that killed two soldiers and heightened tensions ahead of mooted international peace talks. …read more Source: The West...
Eight killed in Ukraine as peace talk prospects dim (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Four Ukrainian soldiers and at least as many civilians died Friday in an upsurge of rocket attacks that came just as prospects for international peace talks on the nine-month crisis dimmed. …read more Source: The West...
Six killed ahead of planned Ukraine peace talks (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Four Ukrainian soldiers and two civilians were reported killed Friday in an upsurge in mortar and rocket attacks launched just days ahead of planned international talks on the crisis. …read more Source: The West...
Six killed, including four soldiers, in Ukraine clashes (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Four Ukrainian soldiers and two civilians have died in a resurgence of rocket and mortar attacks launched just days ahead of planned talks on the crisis, officials said on Friday. …read more Source: The West...
Dutch probe secret service role ahead of MH17 crash (AFP)
The Hague (AFP) – The Netherlands wants to know whether its intelligence services warned airlines of danger about flying over war-torn Ukraine prior to the downing of flight MH17 in July, officials said Tuesday. …read more Source: The West...
13 Ukraine soldiers killed in road crash in east (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Thirteen Ukrainian soldiers were killed and 17 injured when the bus they were travelling in collided with military trucks in bad weather in the war-torn east, officials said on Tuesday. …read more Source: The West...
Hollande: Russia sanctions should end ‘if Ukraine progress’ (AFP)
Paris (AFP) – French President Francois Hollande said Monday that biting Western sanctions against Russia should be lifted if progress were made in resolving the Ukraine crisis. …read more Source: The West...
