Section: The West Australian (Australia)
Russian court convicts one for pro-Ukrainian ‘vandalism’ (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – A Russian court on Thursday jailed a man for more than two years over a protest in which the top of a Moscow skyscraper was painted to resemble the Ukrainian flag. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine PM calls second Russia-Germany pipeline ‘anti-European’ (AFP)
Bratislava (AFP) – Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Thursday criticised as “anti-Ukrainian and anti-European” a deal between Russia’s energy giant Gazprom and several Western firms to build a second gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea. …read more Source: The West...
Russia’s Nemtsov, Saudi’s Badawi, listed for EU rights prize (AFP)
Brussels (AFP) – Assassinated Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, a Ukraine military pilot held on murder charges by Moscow and jailed Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi were shortlisted Thursday for the European Parliament’s prestigious Sakharov human rights prize. …read more Source: The West...
Hollande, Merkel, Putin, Poroshenko to hold summit on Ukraine (AFP)
Paris (AFP) – The leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine on Wednesday agreed to hold an October summit on ending the conflict in Ukraine, as they welcomed reports that a truce in the east had been “generally respected since September 1”, the French presidency said. …read more Source: The West...
Hollande, Merkel, Putin, Poroshenko say Ukraine truce ‘generally respected’ (AFP)
Paris (AFP) – The leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine on Wednesday said the truce between government forces and pro-Russian insurgents in east Ukraine had been “generally respected since September 1”, the French presidency said in a statement. …read more Source: The West...
‘Unlawful’ vote in rebel-run areas would breach Ukraine peace deal: PM (AFP)
Warsaw (AFP) – Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk warned Wednesday that any attempt to hold “unlawful” elections in rebel-run areas in the country’s east would constitute a breach of a February peace deal. …read more Source: The West...
Exclusive – Russia building major military base near Ukrainian border (Reuters)
By Anton Zverev SOLOTI, Russia (Reuters) – Russia has started to build a huge military base housing ammunition depots and barracks for several thousand soldiers near the Ukrainian borde… …read more Source: The West...
Poroshenko may renege on self-rule promise if Russia violates truce (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko warned Wednesday he may renege on his promise to give pro-Russian separatists more power should Moscow fail to abide by the terms of a shacky truce. …read more Source: The West...
Russian accuses Kiev PM of fighting Moscow in Chechnya (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – The head of Russia’s powerful investigative body claimed Wednesday that Ukraine’s bespectacled technocrat prime minister fought in Chechya with Islamist insurgents against Moscow. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine still faces threat of Russian military offensive – Poroshenko (Reuters)
By Pavel Polityuk and Natalia Zinets KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine still faces the threat of a full-scale Russian military attack despite several days of relative calm on the front-lines of … …read more Source: The West...
