Section: The West Australian (Australia)
France delays warship delivery to Russia ‘until further notice’ (AFP)
Paris (AFP) – France on Tuesday pushed back “until further notice” the delivery of a controversial warship to Russia because of the Ukraine crisis, sparking a measured initial response from Moscow. …read more Source: The West...
Rebels urge UN to send peacekeepers into east Ukraine (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine called Tuesday on the United Nations to convene an emergency Security Council session that could authorise sending international peacekeepers into the war zone. …read more Source: The West...
France halts warship delivery to Russia ‘until further notice’ (AFP)
Paris (AFP) – French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday delayed the controversial delivery of a high-tech warship to Russia “until further notice” over the Ukraine crisis. …read more Source: The West...
Conditions not right to deliver warship to Russia: France (AFP)
Paris (AFP) – France’s foreign minister Tuesday said the conditions were not right to deliver a high-tech warship to Russia given the Ukraine crisis, as pressure from Moscow grows to hand over the vessel. …read more Source: The West...
The fear and the chaos of a missile attack in east Ukraine (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – There was a blinding flash, then complete darkness and thick clouds of dust. A missile had just hit Ivan Balabanov’s house in rebel-held east Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Teenage cadets swear allegiance to Ukraine rebel state (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Not long ago, the cadets at the military academy in east Ukraine’s industrial hub of Donetsk swore allegiance to the Ukrainian flag. …read more Source: The West...
Kiev says Russia has 7,500 troops in Ukraine (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Russia has 7,500 troops in the east of the country, where pro-Moscow separatists have been fighting government troops for months, Ukraine’s defence minister said. …read more Source: The West...
Yatsenyuk to remain Ukraine PM in coalition: president (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk will keep his post to lead a new coalition government after a deal between the country’s pro-Western parties, President Petro Poroshenko said Friday. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine coalition agrees to make NATO membership a priority (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine’s pro-Western political parties on Friday agreed to make joining NATO a priority in a coalition deal that will give them a parliamentary majority. …read more Source: The West...
A year after Kiev protests, Ukraine vanishes in rebel east (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – The symbols of Ukraine have been hidden somewhere in the school in the country’s war-torn east — but the headmistress will not say exactly where. …read more Source: The West...
