Section: The West Australian (Australia)
U.N. says close to 8,000 killed in east Ukraine (Reuters)
GENEVA (Reuters) – At least 7,962 people have been killed and 17,811 wounded in violence in eastern Ukraine since mid-April 2014, the U.N. Human Rights Office said on Tuesday, as it published a regula… …read more Source: The West...
New Ukraine truce: rays of hope and clouds of doubt (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine’s warring sides marked a week without heavy fighting Monday in a tentatively encouraging change to a 17-month war that has debilitated Western relations with Russia and unsettled eastern Europe. …read more Source: The West...
France proposes talks with Ukraine, Russia, Germany in September (AFP)
Paris (AFP) – French President Francois Hollande on Monday offered to host talks on the situation in Ukraine with his German, Russian and Ukrainian counterparts, as a February truce finally appeared to be holding. …read more Source: The West...
IMF chief urges Ukraine’s creditors to back debt restructuring plan (Reuters)
By Natalia Zinets and Richard Balmforth KIEV (Reuters) – International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde on Sunday lauded Ukraine’s economic progress and urged its creditors to join… …read more Source: The West...
Replica of most powerful nuclear bomb ever on display in Moscow (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Eight metres long and weighing 25 tonnes, a replica of the so-called Tsar Bomb, the most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated, has gone on display for the first time in Russia, in the midst of an ongoing standoff with the West over Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine truce upheld for first time: Poroshenko (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Saturday that the Western-backed truce signed in Minsk in February had been respected this week for the first time, despite pro-Russian rebels claiming a civilian had been killed. …read more Source: The West...
Truce upheld for first time in war-torn eastern Ukraine: president (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Saturday that the Western-backed truce signed in Minsk in February had been respected this week for the first time, despite pro-Russian rebels claiming a civilian had been killed. …read more Source: The West...
Gazprom seals big gas deals in Europe despite Ukraine crisis (Reuters)
By Vera Eckert and Oleg Vukmanovic FRANKFURT/MILAN (Reuters) – Russia’s Gazprom has bolstered its industrial presence in the heart of Europe with two major gas deals tha… …read more Source: The West...
Two senior nationalists charged over Kiev clashes (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukrainian authorities on Friday charged two senior members of an ultra-nationalist party over violent clashes in Kiev that killed three police this week. …read more Source: The West...
Putin slams ‘tragic’ clashes in Kiev over autonomy for rebel east (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday condemned the deadly clashes that took place this week between police and nationalists in Kiev and questioned how long Ukrainians would “put up with” the instability rocking the country. …read more Source: The West...
