Section: New Zealand
MH17 crash investigators seeking local help
Accident investigators looking into the July crash of a Malaysia Airlines plane in eastern Ukraine said on Thursday (Friday NZT) they would probably hire local contractors to collect wreckage still beyond their reach because of a continuing pro-Russian insurrection. …read more Source:...
MH17 crash investigators seek local help recovering wreckage
Accident investigators looking into the July crash of a Malaysia Airlines plane in eastern Ukraine said on Thursday (Friday NZT) they would probably hire local contractors to collect wreckage still beyond their reach because of a continuing pro-Russian insurrection. …read more Source:...
Ukraine sets passport rule for rebel area
Ukraine has announced anyone crossing in or out of areas controlled by pro-Russian separatists will have to show a passport. …read more Source:...
Ukrainian forces deny launching new offensive in east
Ukrainian forces denied allegations by pro-Russian separatists that they had launched a new offensive in eastern Ukraine on Thursday (Friday NZT), saying they were strictly adhering to a ceasefire agreement. …read more Source:...
Ukraine says it will probe school shelling in east
DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) Authorities in Ukraine say security services will investigate the shelling of a school in the rebel-held east that left two teenagers dead and four others injured.Security spokesman Andriy Lysenko said Thursday… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
How the Ukrainian peace deal is faring
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) Two months after Ukraine signed a truce with pro-Russian rebels, daily fighting continues in the east and other key conditions of the deal haven’t been met. Despite persisting hostilities, Russia and Ukraine have… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
EU’s Mogherini: more sanctions on Russia possible
WARSAW, Poland (AP) The European Union’s new foreign policy chief condemned the recent rebel-held elections in eastern Ukraine as “illegal and illegitimate” and said that the bloc could pursue further sanctions against Russia as… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine peace plan threatened
The ceasefire in Ukraine is hanging by a thread after the President accused pro-Russian rebels of sinking the peace process. …read more Source:...
Life as a Ukrainian prisoner of war
Ruslan Tinkalyuk cut a forlorn figure as he took a long, slow drag on a Chesterfield cigarette. Dirty and unkempt, he was curled up by a small barrel fire amid the rubble of an apartment destroyed by a rocket in this war-torn eastern Ukrainian town. …read more Source:...
Merkel sees more Ukraine rebels on sanctions list
BERLIN (AP) German Chancellor Angela Merkel is indicating that more rebel leaders in eastern Ukraine could be added to lists of people targeted by European Union sanctions following much-criticized weekend elections.Ukraine and… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
