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...
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...
Kiev says rebels downed army chopper, 2 crew killed (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Kiev said on Friday that pro-Russian rebels shot down a Ukrainian air force helicopter near the eastern city of Lugansk this week, killing the two-member crew. …read more Source: The West...
