Section: The New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)
Mother of Ukraine pilot jailed in Russia seeks global help
UNITED NATIONS (AP) ” The mother of a Ukrainian helicopter pilot imprisoned in Russia is on a global campaign seeking support from world leaders to pressure President Vladimir Putin to free her daughter.Nadezhda Savchenko was captured… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Mother of Ukraine pilot jailed in Russia seeks global help
The mother of a Ukrainian helicopter pilot imprisoned in Russia is on a global campaign seeking support from world leaders to pressure President Vladimir Putin to free her daughter.Maria Shavchenko said in an interview with The… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Mother of Ukraine pilot jailed in Russia seeks global help
UNITED NATIONS (AP) ” The mother of a Ukrainian helicopter pilot imprisoned in Russia is on a global campaign seeking support from world leaders to pressure President Vladimir Putin to free her daughter.Maria Shavchenko said in… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
US to send Ukraine $18 million in food, health, shelter aid
WASHINGTON (AP) ” The United States will supply Ukraine with nearly $18 million in aid to provide shelter, food vouchers, potable water and health and sanitation in regions affected by fighting between government forces and pro-Russia… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
US, Ukraine start military training, defying Russian fury
YAVORIV, Ukraine (AP) ” Troops from the United States and Ukraine have officially opened joint training exercises intended to help bolster Ukraine’s defenses against incursions from Russian-backed separatists in the east.Speaking… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
US troops arrive in Ukraine for training exercises
MOSCOW (AP) ” About 300 US Army paratroopers have arrived in Ukraine for training exercises with national guard units, a move criticized by the Kremlin and eastern Ukraine’s Russia-backed separatist rebels.The troops, from the Italy-based… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
UN: death toll in Ukraine fighting now above 6,100
BERLIN (AP) ” The United Nations says the number of people killed in a year of fighting in Ukraine has now passed 6,100, and says it’s increasingly worried that breaches in a cease-fire will further worsen the human rights situation… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Obama, Italian Prime Minister Renzi to meet at White House
WASHINGTON (AP) ” Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi is getting an audience with President Barack Obama.Obama is hosting Renzi at the White House on Friday to compare notes on a range of issues, including Ukraine, Libya and Islamic… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine crisis: Life in Shyrokyne, a bitterly disputed village
Irina Strezhak begs the international monitors who have arrived near her bombed-out home in the besieged Ukrainian village of Shyrokyne for sleeping pills.”We need something to let us sleep through the night, some medication, sleeping… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Pro-Russian journalist gunned down in Ukraine’s capital
MOSCOW (AP) ” A Ukrainian journalist known for his pro-Russian views has been gunned down in Kiev.Ukrainian Interior Minister Anton Herashchenko said in a Facebook post that Oles Buzyna, who was editor-in-chief of a leading daily… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
