Section: The West Australian (Australia)
Bishop blames Russia at UN over MH17 (AAP)
Russia says it is the victim of an information war following the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
New Ukraine peace talks after Obama rebuffs Poroshenko pleas (AFP)
Minsk (AFP) – Warring parties in Ukraine meet on Friday to try to find a lasting solution to a brutal conflict that has killed around 3,000 people and stoked Western alarm about Russia’s territorial ambitions. …read more Source: The West...
EU, Ukraine, Russia to hold gas talks next week (AFP)
Brussels (AFP) – The European Union will hold fresh talks with Russia and Ukraine next week to settle their ongoing dispute over gas deliveries, an EU official said on Friday. …read more Source: The West...
New Ukraine peace talks after Obama-Poroshenko meet (AFP)
Minsk (AFP) – Warring parties in Ukraine meet on Friday to try to find a lasting solution to a brutal conflict that has killed around 3,000 people and stoked Western alarm about Russia’s territorial ambitions. …read more Source: The West...
Russia evicts Crimean Tatars from assembly (AFP)
Simferopol (AFP) – Russian authorities have ordered Crimean Tatars to leave their assembly building, in a move that the leader of the ethnic minority — which opposed Russia’s annexing of Crimea from Ukraine — called a return to Soviet oppression. …read more Source: The West...
Russia ‘moves troops in Crimea’ ahead of Ukraine-US meet (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Kiev accused Moscow on Thursday of massing its troops in annexed Crimea on the Ukraine border, rattling nerves just as President Petro Poroshenko prepared to meet US counterpart Barack Obama. …read more Source: The West...
BBC reporters ‘badly beaten’ in southern Russia (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – A team of BBC journalists was assaulted in southern Russia while researching a story about soldiers “being killed at the Ukraine border,” the company said Thursday after lodging a protest with Russian authorities. …read more Source: The West...
Moscow hails Ukraine self-rule olive branch for east (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Russia hailed Wednesday Ukraine’s offer of self-rule for separatist rebels in the east under a peace plan seen as the best chance yet of halting five months of bloody warfare. …read more Source: The West...
Russia praises Ukraine law on self-rule for Donbass region (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Moscow on Wednesday praised Kiev’s law on self-rule for the war-torn eastern Ukraine as a “step in the right direction” and expressed the hope the rebel-held regions would develop cross-border cooperation with Russia. …read more Source: The West...
Deadly gunbattles in east Ukraine despite autonomy offer (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Fierce gunbattles erupted around the Ukrainian rebel stronghold of Donetsk on Wednesday, with two civilians killed just a day after lawmakers in Kiev held out an offer of self-rule to the pro-Russian separatists. …read more Source: The West...
