Section: The West Australian (Australia)
Ukraine’s parliament sacks corruption-tainted prosecutor (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine’s parliament on Tuesday sacked the country’s chief prosecutor over his alleged attempts to stall high-profile corruption investigations and cover up state graft. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine pilot Savchenko ‘will serve’ her sentence: Kremlin (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Ukrainian military pilot Nadiya Savchenko will serve her 22-year jail term over the killing of two Russian journalists, the Kremlin said Saturday despite Kiev’s pushing for a prisoner exchange. …read more Source: The West...
Ukrainian lawyer of captured Russian soldiers found dead (Reuters)
KIEV (Reuters) – The body of a lawyer of two Russian servicemen on trial in Ukraine has been discovered on the grounds of a former farming collective, prosecutor Anatoly Matios said on Friday, saying … …read more Source: The West...
Lawyer for suspected Russian soldier found murdered in Ukraine (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – The body of a Ukrainian lawyer representing one of two purported Russian soldiers on trial in Kiev was discovered Friday, buried at a farm after being brutally murdered. …read more Source: The West...
Poroshenko says new Ukrainian government must be formed next week (AFP)
Kharkiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko Wednesday urged parliament to approve a new government next week that could end a raging political crisis and unlock crucial Western aid. …read more Source: The West...
Kerry to meet Putin to push peace in Syria, Ukraine (AFP)
Washington (AFP) – US Secretary of State John Kerry heads to Moscow this week for talks with President Vladimir Putin, hoping to build momentum for peace in Syria after a partial Russian withdrawal and to restore a fragmenting ceasefire in Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Kiev offers to swap two suspected Russian troops for Ukraine pilot (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Tuesday offered to swap two suspected Russian soldiers captured in the separatist east for Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko who was sentenced to 22 years by a Russian judge. …read more Source: The West...
Russian court finds Ukrainian pilot Savchenko guilty (Reuters)
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian court ruled on Tuesday that Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko was guilty of complicity in killing two Russian journalists and said that she will be given a custodial sent… …read more Source: The West...
Russian court due to rule in murder trial of Ukrainian pilot (AFP)
Donetsk (Russia) (AFP) – A Russian court was due to deliver its verdict on Tuesday in the trial of Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko, charged over the deaths of two Russian journalists in a case that the West and Kiev have dubbed a farce. …read more Source: The West...
Russian court delivers verdict in Ukraine pilot trial (AFP)
Donetsk (Russia) (AFP) – A Russian court began on Monday delivering its verdict in the high-profile murder trial of Ukrainian helicopter pilot Nadiya Savchenko, which Kiev and the West have slammed as a political sham. …read more Source: The West...
