Section: The West Australian (Australia)
Shelling in Ukraine’s Donetsk tears family apart (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Face covered in soot, a grandfather sits in front of the three bodies of his loved ones muttering again and again his lament. …read more Source: The West...
Merkel jets into Kiev as tensions soar over Ukraine (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived in Kiev Saturday for crisis talks with Ukraine’s pro-Western leaders, as a controversial aid convoy from Moscow began crossing back from the war-torn east of the country to Russia. …read more Source: The West...
Artillery fire ‘kills two civilians’ in Donetsk (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Two civilians were killed Saturday apparently by artillery fire in Donetsk, the main separatist stronghold in eastern Ukraine, an AFP reporter witnessed. …read more Source: The West...
Kiev, West slam Russian aid convoy to east Ukraine (AFP)
Izvaryne (Ukraine) (AFP) – The West rebuked Russia for sending scores of trucks Friday from a controversial aid convoy to east Ukraine’s rebel-held Lugansk in a move Kiev decried as an “invasion.” …read more Source: The West...
No surrender: Ukraine rebels confident despite losses (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukrainian forces may be pummelling them daily and key leaders might have just quit but defiant pro-Russian rebels say any talk of them being on the back foot is just crude propaganda from Kiev. …read more Source: The West...
NATO says Russian convoy move ‘only deepens crisis’ (AFP)
Brussels (AFP) – NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen sharply criticised the Russian decision to advance a “so-called” aid convoy into Ukraine on Friday as a “blatant breach” of international commitments that “only deepens the crisis”. …read more Source: The West...
NATO says Russian convoy move ‘only deepens crisis’ (AFP)
Brussels (AFP) – NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen sharply criticised the Russian decision to advance a “so-called” aid convoy into Ukraine on Friday as a “blatant breach” of international commitments that “only deepens the crisis”. …read more Source: The West...
Kiev, West slam Russia’s convoy ‘invasion’ in east Ukraine (AFP)
Izvaryne (Ukraine) (AFP) – The West on Friday blasted Moscow for unilaterally sending a controversial aid convoy to east Ukraine’s rebel-held Lugansk in a move Kiev decried as an “invasion”. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine accuses Russia of ‘invasion’ as aid trucks move in (AFP)
Izvaryne (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukraine on Friday accused Moscow of invading after Russia unilaterally sent the first part of its mammoth aid convoy into east Ukraine, warning against any attacks on the trucks. …read more Source: The West...
Kiev accuses Russia of ‘direct invasion’ over aid convoy (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine’s security chief on Friday accused Russia of a “direct invasion” after Moscow sent a disputed aid convoy into the war-torn east of the country. …read more Source: The West...
