Section: Australia&NZ
Emails show ties between Kremlin, Ukraine (AP)
An email dump by hackers shows close financial and political ties between Moscow and separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Hackers: emails show ties between Kremlin, Ukraine rebels
MOSCOW (AP) ” A group of Ukrainian hackers has released thousands of emails from an account used by a senior Kremlin official that appear to show close financial and political ties between Moscow and separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine.The… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Freed Ukrainian pilot back in Russia for jailed compatriots (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – A Ukrainian pilot released from a Russian prison in May was in Moscow on Wednesday to throw her support behind two compatriots jailed in Russia, her lawyer said. …read more Source: The West...
Canada seeking to cooperate with Russia in the Arctic (AFP)
Ottawa (AFP) – Despite tensions over conflicts in Syria and Ukraine, Russia and the West have maintained a strong working relationship in the Arctic and Canada’s new Liberal government is looking to further bolster that cooperation. …read more Source: The West...
Jailed Ukrainian filmmaker ‘staying’ in Russia
MOSCOW (AP) ” Ukraine says Russia is refusing to hand over jailed Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit terror attacks by a Russian military court in 2015 and sentenced to 20 years in prison.Ukraine’s… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Putin backs armed OSCE mission to east Ukraine (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – President Vladimir Putin backs an armed OSCE mission to war-torn eastern Ukraine, the Kremlin said Thursday, in spite of objections by pro-Moscow rebels. …read more Source: The West...
Russia agrees to armed OSCE monitors in Ukraine’s east
MOSCOW (AP) ” The Kremlin says President Vladimir Putin has welcomed the deployment of armed OSCE observers in eastern Ukraine.Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov spoke after the Russian leader attended the four-way talks in Berlin… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Hollande, Merkel not excluding sanctions against Russia over Syria (AFP)
Berlin (AFP) – The leaders of France and Germany warned Thursday that they did not exclude imposing sanctions on Russia over its bombardment in the Syrian city of Aleppo. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine peace ‘roadmap’ by end of November: president (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – A “roadmap” for applying the Minsk peace accords for Ukraine will be presented by the end of November, President Petro Poroshenko announced Thursday. …read more Source: The West...
The Latest: Ukraine says agreement reached on police mission
MOSCOW (AP) ” Ukraine’s president says an agreement has been reached at a summit with the leaders of Russia, France and Germany on deploying an armed police mission in separatist eastern Ukraine.Petro Poroshenko’s comments were… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
