Section: The West Australian (Australia)
Ukraine TV lands in hot water over Russian pop songs (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – One of Ukraine’s biggest TV networks faced the threat Friday of being taken off air for filling its highly-rated New Year’s Eve show with Russian pop songs beamed live from Moscow. …read more Source: The West...
Thousands of Ukraine nationalists march in Kiev (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Thousands of Ukrainian nationalists held a torchlight procession across Kiev on Thursday in honour of a 1940s anti-Soviet insurgent branded by Moscow as a Nazi collaborator whom Europe must reject. …read more Source: The West...
France wants signs of Ukraine peace before Russia warship delivery (AFP)
Paris (AFP) – France would only deliver two warships ordered by Russia if there were concrete signs of lasting peace in Ukraine, the French defence minister said Thursday. …read more Source: The West...
Poroshenko tells Ukrainians ‘we will win this war’ (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko promised to defeat the “cruel-hearted foe” trying to break his former Soviet republic apart, in a traditional New Year’s message. …read more Source: The West...
Little hope for future as east Ukraine ends nightmare year (AFP)
Marinivka (Ukraine) (AFP) – Larissa Pogorelka began the year looking forward to seeing her son graduate college and planning for the future with cautious optimism. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine president suggests NATO referendum (AAP)
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed a law ending his country’s non-aligned status. …read more Source: The West...
Latvia to grapple with Russia as EU president (AFP)
Riga (AFP) – Latvia takes over as European Union president on Thursday, putting it on the front line of negotiations with neighbouring Russia over the deadly crisis in Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Poroshenko hails Ukraine ‘warriors’ freed by rebels (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Saturday welcomed home as heroes 145 soldiers freed by pro-Russian rebels during the largest prisoner swap of the eight-month separatist war. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine secures cheap Russian coal and power supplies (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Moscow promised on Saturday to resume shipping coal and provide electricity to Ukraine for the first time in three years despite Kiev’s failure to guarantee energy supplies to Russian-occupied Crimea. …read more Source: The West...
‘Welcome to the media war’: Ukraine moves to counter Russian spin (AFP)
Debaltseve (Ukraine) (AFP) – Donning bullet-proof jackets, a score of foreign journalists clamber aboard an armoured vehicle headed for Ukraine’s front line as Kiev flexes muscle in the propaganda war with Russia. …read more Source: The West...
