Section: The West Australian (Australia)
Kiev claims ‘intensive’ movements of troops crossing from Russia (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – The Ukrainian military on Sunday reported “intensive” movement of troops and equipment from Russia into the separatist controlled area in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
In separatist Ukraine town, war snatches home and life (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Nadezhda Ivanovna had plenty of lucky escapes during four months of shelling against her Donetsk neighbourhood. But on Saturday, Ukraine’s war finally closed in, with a shell destroying her house and killing her seven pigs. …read more Source: The West...
Rebel chief, Lenin fan set to win separatist Ukraine votes (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Two pro-Russian separatists will likely be confirmed as leaders in a controversial vote in Ukraine on Sunday — one a rebel chief who highlights his status as a miner’s son and the other a fan of Communist icon Vladimir Lenin. …read more Source: The West...
Bombardments ahead of Ukraine separatist vote (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Artillery explosions could be heard every few seconds early Saturday in Donetsk on the eve of separatist elections that Ukraine and its Western backers say will undermine an increasingly hollow truce accord. …read more Source: The West...
US condemns eastern Ukraine separatist vote (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – The United States says it will not recognise weekend elections planned by pro-Kremlin rebels in eastern Ukraine, where more than 4,000 people have been killed according to new UN figures. …read more Source: The West...
4,000 killed in Ukraine conflict, president seeks to ‘unite’ country (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – More than 4,000 people have been killed in fighting in eastern Ukraine between the army and pro-Russian separatists, the UN said Friday, as the Ukrainian president took steps to “unite” the country after elections. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine’s Poroshenko taps Yatsenyuk for PM after Russian gas deal (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko backed rival Arseniy Yatsenyuk as future premier Friday, to “unite” the country after it secured a deal with Moscow on future gas supplies. …read more Source: The West...
More remains found at MH17 crash site (AP)
Investigators have recovered additional human remains in eastern Ukraine after gaining rare access to the site where MH17 was downed in mid-July. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine soldiers to government: we’re coming for you next (AFP)
Dnipropetrovsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Vitaliy Feshchenko, one of thousands of Ukrainian volunteers fighting pro-Russian rebels, has this message for government leaders back in the capital Kiev: his battle-hardened men might come for them next. …read more Source: The West...
More remains recovered from MH17 wreckage (AP)
Dutch investigators have recovered human remains after gaining rare access to the crash site of the Malaysia Airlines plane shot down over Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
