Section: The West Australian (Australia)
NATO envoys to hold emergency meeting Friday over Ukraine (AFP)
Brussels (AFP) – Ambassadors to NATO will hold an emergency meeting in Brussels on Friday morning to discuss reports that Russia had sent troops into Ukraine, a diplomatic source said. …read more Source: The West...
NATO says ‘over 1,000 Russian troops’ in Ukraine (AFP)
Mons (Belgium) (AFP) – A senior NATO official said on Thursday that “well over a thousand” Russian troops were operating inside Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Russia ‘has invaded’ Ukraine: President (Yahoo7 and Agencies)
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko has scrapped a visit to Turkey and convened a top security meeting after claiming Russian troops have been sent into Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Death toll soars from fighting in Ukraine: UN report (AFP)
United Nations (United States) (AFP) – Fierce fighting in east Ukraine over the past month has sent the death toll soaring, with at least 36 people killed every day, according to a UN rights report. …read more Source: The West...
Rebels seize ground as West claims Russia army is in Ukraine (AFP)
Starobesheve (Ukraine) (AFP) – Rebels in east Ukraine appeared on Wednesday to have seized swathes of territory from government forces who abandoned vehicles and ammunition as they left, as Western intelligence said Russian army units were operating inside the country. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine says more tanks roll in from Russia despite talks (AFP)
Rozdolne (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukraine appealed for NATO’s help on Wednesday after reporting that a huge convoy of tanks and weaponry from Russia was moving through the southeast of the country. …read more Source: The West...
Kiev reports movement of tanks, heavy weapons from Russia (AFP)
Rozdolne (Ukraine) (AFP) – Kiev on Wednesday said a massive convoy of tanks and heavy weapons from Russia was travelling towards a government-held town in restive east Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Russia, Ukraine talks end without major breakthrough (AFP)
Minsk (AFP) – Talks between the leaders of Russia and Ukraine apparently failed to make a major breakthrough towards ending brutal fighting in east Ukraine Wednesday as strongman Vladimir Putin played down the entry by his troops into the former Soviet state. …read more Source: The West...
Seaside refuge becomes Ukraine’s new front (AFP)
Novoazovsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – When 15-year-old Daniil’s family packed up their belongings in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk in May and moved to the coast of Ukraine’s Azov Sea to get away from the fighting, they thought they were safe. …read more Source: The West...
Putin, Poroshenko talk as Kiev holds Moscow troops (AFP)
Minsk (AFP) – The presidents of Russia and Ukraine on Tuesday sat down to crunch one-on-one talks over heavy fighting in east Ukraine as the Kremlin admitted for the first time its troops had entered its neighbour’s territory. …read more Source: The West...
