Section: The West Australian (Australia)
Thirteen killed in Ukraine fighting (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Thirteen soldiers and civilians have died in Ukraine, officials said Monday, in the deadliest surge of violence since the government and pro-Russian insurgents struck a shaky truce in their five-month conflict. …read more Source: The West...
Back to school in Donetsk to sound of mortar fire (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Students returning for the new school year in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday will get real-life conflict lessons as they take their seats in battle-scarred classrooms. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine troop withdrawal in doubt after 12 killed (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – The shaky truce between pro-Russian rebels and the Ukrainian military was challenged Monday when 12 soldiers and civilians were reported killed in a surge of fighting across the separatist east. …read more Source: The West...
Twelve dead in eastern Ukraine despite truce (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Nine Ukrainian soldiers and at least three civilians died in eastern Ukraine over the past day despite a ceasefire, officials said Monday. …read more Source: The West...
Ukrainian nationalists topple massive Lenin in Kharkiv (AFP)
Kharkiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Pro-Ukrainian protesters in eastern Ukraine’s city Kharkiv on Sunday toppled a giant Lenin statue seen as a symbol of Soviet legacy and Moscow’s control. …read more Source: The West...
Echoes of the past at Ukraine’s rebel-held WWII monument (AFP)
Snizhne (Ukraine) (AFP) – The Savur-Mohyla memorial in east Ukraine, commemorating thousands of Russian and German soldiers who perished in World War II, stood for decades as testament to the strategic hill’s bloodstained history. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine, pro-Russia rebels eye troop pullback (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine held back to see whether a Russian-backed truce would hold through the day before beginning its own withdrawal of forces from the frontline stretching across the war-torn country’s separatist east. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine backs off from EU-backed Russia gas deal (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – War-torn Ukraine on Saturday distanced itself from an EU-brokered agreement with Russia that would have restored its gas supplies during winter and helped rebuild trust between the neighbouring foes. …read more Source: The West...
251 victims of MH17 Ukraine crash identified (AFP)
The Hague (AFP) – Forensic experts have identified 251 of the 298 passengers and crew killed on downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, after 26 people were named this week, Dutch authorities said on Friday. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine’s border to Russia wide open — in rebel-held zone (AFP)
USPENKA (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukraine’s president may have ordered the closure of his nation’s border with Russia but, when asked about it, the rebel commander of this crossing point just smiles and points to the snaking queue of cars traversing the international line. …read more Source: The West...
