Section: New Zealand
Putin: Russia helped Yanukovych flee Ukraine
MOSCOW (AP) ” In a new documentary about Russia’s annexation of Crimea, President Vladimir Putin says Russian forces helped ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych escape to Russia.The documentary is being shown Sunday on state… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Japanese ex-PM visits ‘peaceful’ Crimea
A former Japanese prime minister has returned to Tokyo from a controversial trip to Crimea. …read more Source:...
Ukraine says ‘de-escalation’ in conflict
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has confirmed a “gradual de-escalation” in fighting a month after a ceasefire agreement came into effect. …read more Source:...
Russian envoy: Aggression in Baltics, Poland not possible
WARSAW, Poland (AP) ” Russia’s ambassador to Poland says it’s “not possible” for Russia to repeat the incursion it made into Ukraine in the Baltic states or in Poland.Ambassador Sergei Andreyev told Polish Radio 1 late Thursday… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ex-Japan PM: Crimea vote was legitimate
MOSCOW (AP) ” A former Japanese prime minister whose visit to Crimea brought harsh criticism at home says he’s convinced that the referendum leading to the peninsula’s annexation by Russia was legitimate.Yukio Hatoyama’s trip to… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Bowler throws grenade instead of ball in Ukraine, 2 injured
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ” Two people have been injured while bowling in a rebel-controlled area of east Ukraine after a player rolled a grenade instead of a ball.A separatist-run news agency cited emergency services official Sergei Ivanushkin… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine requests UN peacekeeping mission
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ” Ukraine says it has placed a formal request with the United Nations for a peacekeeping mission to be deployed in its eastern regions, where a cease-fire between government and Russian-backed separatist forces… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine’s grinding war stains innocence of childhood
KHARTSYZK, Ukraine (AP) ” Seryozha colors in his drawing of a tank, lost in thought. Like many 7-year-olds in eastern Ukraine, he has trouble recalling a time before the war.”They’ve always been shooting,” he says, vigorously scratching… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Kremlin says Ukraine moving too slowly to fulfill peace deal
MOSCOW (AP) ” Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman is accusing Ukraine of dragging its feet on implementing last month’s peace deal.Dmitry Peskov told The Associated Press on Thursday that while hostilities in eastern Ukraine… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
French PM discusses Ukraine, security with Poland’s leaders
WARSAW, Poland (AP) ” French Prime Minister Manuel Valls and Poland’s leaders have stressed the need for the Minsk peace deal to be observed in eastern Ukraine.Valls met in Warsaw on Thursday with Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
