Section: The West Australian (Australia)
Russia puts Ukraine aviator in the dock (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Russia on Thursday opens the high-profile trial of Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko in a politically charged case that could send ties between Moscow and Kiev to a new low. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine claims capture of another Russian soldier (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine’s security service on Wednesday announced the capture of a Russian army major who was allegedly delivering explosives to pro-Kremlin rebels in the former Soviet state’s separatist east. …read more Source: The West...
Russia vetoes UN resolution on MH17 tribunal (AFP)
United Nations (United States) (AFP) – Russia vetoed a UN Security Council resolution on Wednesday that sought to set up a special tribunal to try those responsible for shooting down flight MH17 over Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Poroshenko honours Ukraine Church leader derided by Russia (AFP)
Lviv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Wednesday unveiled a monument to a Catholic Church leader derided by Moscow for initially welcoming Nazi soldiers during World War II. …read more Source: The West...
Dutch PM appeals to Putin not to veto MH17 vote at UN (AFP)
The Hague (AFP) – Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Wednesday made an “urgent” appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin not to veto a UN Security Council resolution to try those who shot down flight MH17 over Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Dutch PM appeals to Putin ahead of MH17 tribunal vote at UN (AFP)
The Hague (AFP) – Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Wednesday made an “urgent” appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin not to veto a UN Security Council resolution to try those who shot down flight MH17 over Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Special Report – Ukraine struggles to control maverick battalions (Reuters)
By Elizabeth Piper and Sergiy Karazy KIEV (Reuters) – From a basement billiard club in central Kiev, Dmytro Korchynsky commands a volunteer battalion helping Ukraine’s government fight … …read more Source: The West...
Girl ‘without a face’ finds new sister across the world (Yahoo7)
A girl born ‘without a face’ has a new sister after her parents adopted a Ukrainian orphan with the same condition. …read more Source: The West...
Foreign monitors come under ‘targeted’ fire in Ukraine (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Western monitors of Ukraine’s tattered truce on Tuesday reported coming under “targeted” fire that has forced them to rethink their future operations in the war-torn former Soviet state. …read more Source: The West...
NATO eastward expansion would be ‘catastrophic’: Russian official (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – NATO enlargement into Ukraine and Georgia would have “catastrophic consequences” for Europe, Russia’s envoy to NATO warned Tuesday in a television interview, as relations between Moscow and the West sink to Cold War-era lows. …read more Source: The West...
