Section: The New Zealand Herald (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...
Ukraine’s neighbor Poland to test resilience to attack
WARSAW, Poland (AP) ” Poland’s President Bronislaw Komorowski says that an exercise will be held to test the nation’s resilience to a “crisis” like the conflict in neighboring Ukraine.Komorowski spoke Wednesday during an annual… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine expects $5B loan from IMF in ‘coming days’
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ” Ukraine’s finance minister says the country is expecting to receive $5 billion in credit from the International Monetary Fund in the coming days” the first in a sought-for series of bailout loans the government… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
US to send more aid, small drones to Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) ” U.S. officials say Vice President Joe Biden is telling the Ukraine president that the U.S. will send more aid to the country. That will include small drones and armored Humvees.Biden delivered the news in a call… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
US unveils more sanctions related to Russia-Ukraine conflict
WASHINGTON (AP) ” The United States is slapping new sanctions on several individuals and entities involved in supporting Russian-backed separatists seeking to destabilize eastern Ukraine.The penalties target 14 Ukrainian and Russian… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
