Section: The West Australian (Australia)
New Ukraine truce jeopardised by first combat death (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine on Friday reported its first combat death since a new ceasefire with pro-Russian rebels went into effect on September 1 before the new school year. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine picks Kiev as Eurovision host city (The West Australian)
Ukraine has announced that next year’s Eurovision Song Contest will take place in its capital, Kiev. …read more Source: The West...
Russia’s $3bn court case against Ukraine scheduled for January (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Britain’s High Court will next year hear a case Moscow has filed against Ukraine over a $3 billion eurobond loan, a deputy finance minister said Thursday. …read more Source: The West...
Russia frees Crimea Tatar activist Umerov from psychiatric hospital (AFP)
Simferopol (AFP) – Authorities in Russian-annexed Crimea on Wednesday released prominent Crimean Tatar activist Ilmi Umerov from a psychiatric hospital, where he was forcibly detained for three weeks as he faces extremism charges. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine leader calls joining NATO ‘strategic goal’ (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – President Petro Poroshenko said Tuesday that Ukraine’s membership in NATO remained a “strategic goal” even though the Western military alliance remained sceptical about enlisting the former Soviet state. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine draws Western ire for attack on ‘pro-Russia’ TV (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine drew rare Western anger Monday after the studio of one of its most popular TV channels was set ablaze by protesters unhappy with its alleged support for Russia. …read more Source: The West...
Russia launches major military drills set to rattle Kiev (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Russia on Monday launched large-scale military drills on Ukraine’s eastern border and around the Crimean peninsula, in the latest exercises set to rattle Kiev and the West. …read more Source: The West...
Beatings and a lost kidney: life in Ukraine’s ‘secret prisons’ (AFP)
Ukrainsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Secretly detained by Ukrainian authorities for almost 600 days, Mykola Vakaruk suffered repeated beatings, battled the freezing cold and lost a kidney in an ordeal he described as pure hell. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine, pro-Russia rebels say new ceasefire holding (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels on Thursday said their forces were respecting a ceasefire aimed at halting a recent spike in fighting in time for the start of the new school year. …read more Source: The West...
G20 offers Putin one more stab at Obama on Syria, Ukraine (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – The G20 summit starting in China on Sunday gives Russian President Vladimir Putin one more chance to try to strongarm US leader Barack Obama over Syria and Ukraine as their fraught relationship nears an end. …read more Source: The West...
