Section: Australia&NZ
Trump offers Russia end to sanctions if nukes cut
Donald Trump has vowed to improve relations with Moscow even as he faces criticism he is too eager to make an ally of Vladimir Putin, a former KGB spy who rose to the top of the Kremlin in 1999. Photo: Reuters US President-elect Donald Trump says he will propose offering to end sanctions imposed on Russia for its annexation of Crimea in return...
Oksana Bilyk about musical education in Ukraine
Lecturer of world and Ukrainian music history Lviv State Music College named Stanislav Lyudkevych and the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. (Викладач світової та української історії музики Львівського державного музичного училища імені Станіслава Людкевича та Льві́вського націона́льного університе́ту і́мені Іва́на Франка́ ) …read...
Ukraine army and rebels say new truce in east disrupted (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukrainian government forces and the pro-Russian separatist rebels fighting in eastern Ukraine on Saturday accused each other of disrupting a fragile truce declared late December. …read more Source: The West...
MH17 relatives mull new search in Ukraine for remains (AFP)
The Hague (AFP) – Families of the MH17 plane disaster victims may push for a renewed search of the crash site in eastern Ukraine after the recent discovery of a bone fragment belonging to one of the dead. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine freeze kills 40 people in two weeks (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Sub-zero temperatures across Ukraine have claimed 40 lives since late December, officials said Friday as the death toll from the cold snap hitting Europe keeps rising. …read more Source: The West...
Rights group: Civilians abused by rivals in Ukraine conflict
MOSCOW (AP) ” A human rights group says civilians are being abducted and tortured by fighters on both sides of the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine.An annual report released by Human Rights Watch on Thursday accused the Ukrainian… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
OSCE head calls for boost to Ukraine observers (AFP)
Vienna (AFP) – The OSCE’s observer mission in eastern Ukraine needs to be strengthened by better equipment and the ability to patrol at night, the security body’s new rotating chair Austria said on Thursday. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine says it captured new positions in eastern Ukraine
MOSCOW (AP) ” A Ukrainian government official says the nation’s forces have captured new positions in the rebel-held east.Olexander Motuzyanyk, presidential spokesman for the operation in the east, said on Wednesday that one soldier… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
US lashes out at Russia at UN _ and Russia goes after Obama
UNITED NATIONS (AP) ” U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power has lashed out at Russia in the U.N. Security Council for invading and annexing parts of Ukraine and carrying out “a merciless military assault” in Syria.Russia’s U.N. Ambassador… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Monument to WWII massacre ransacked in Ukraine
MOSCOW (AP) ” Police says a monument to the victims of a Second World War massacre in a western Ukrainian village has been blown up.National Police in the Lviv region said in a statement on Tuesday that vandals destroyed a stone… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
