Section: The West Australian (Australia)
Ukrainian pilot’s murder trial to start September 22 (AFP)
Donetsk (Russia) (AFP) – A Russian court on Tuesday said a Ukrainian female helicopter pilot will go on trial next week over the murder of two Russian journalists, and ruled that she must stay behind bars meanwhile. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine wants Western weaponry if Minsk deal fails – official (Reuters)
By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Ukraine will renew its calls for lethal defensive weaponry from its Western allies if the Minsk peace deal fails, the country’s top official to NATO… …read more Source: The West...
Top officials hail ‘progress’ on Ukraine deal (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Progress has been made on some contentious issues in the peace process, the foreign ministers of Germany, Russia, Ukraine and France said after holding talks in Berlin to prepare for a summit in Paris on October 2. …read more Source: The West...
Germany says ‘significant progress’ made at Ukraine meeting (Reuters)
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said after meeting his Russian, Ukrainian and French counterparts in Berlin on Saturday that “significant progress” had been made tow… …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine has ‘long way to go’ on gay rights: Elton John (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Veteran British rock star Elton John on Saturday said Ukraine still had “a long way to go” in its treatment of the gay, bisexual and transgender community at a conference in Kiev. …read more Source: The West...
Ukrainian PM warns West not to lift Russia sanctions (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Saturday urged the West not to lift sanctions on Russia for its role in the Ukraine conflict unless the Minsk peace deal is fully implemented. …read more Source: The West...
Russia’s Putin welcomes Ukraine ceasefire (Reuters)
CHERSONEUS, Crimea (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that it was welcome that both Ukrainian armed forces and separatists in eastern Ukraine had ceased military operations,… …read more Source: The West...
Applause and wine as Berlusconi and Putin visit Crimea (AFP)
Sevastopol (AFP) – President Vladimir Putin on Friday hosted Italy’s former leader Silvio Berlusconi for talks in Crimea, during the highest-profile visit by a Western politician to the peninsula since its annexation last year. …read more Source: The West...
Poroshenko says Ukraine truce holding despite Russia ‘threat’ (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told an international conference Friday that Russia remained a treat to the “entire democratic world” but that he held out hope a new truce with pro-Moscow insurgents would hold. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine’s pro-Russia rebels target media in propaganda war (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Yana Agafonova, a media official in the pro-Russian rebel government in eastern Ukraine, says critical publications are not welcome in the separatist region, which is locked in a vicious propaganda war with Kiev. …read more Source: The West...
