Section: Australia&NZ
Ukraine’s released pilot returns to parliament (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine’s defiant pilot Nadiya Savchenko sang the national anthem Tuesday in a strident first appearance in parliament since her release in a prisoner swap with Russia last week. …read more Source: The West...
Freed pilot Savchenko sworn in as Ukrainian lawmaker
MOSCOW (AP) ” Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko, who spent two years in Russian custody before she was released last week, has been sworn in as a lawmaker in the national parliament.Savchenko was elected as a lawmaker in 2014 while… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
“New Ukraine “ interview with bishop Venedykt Aleksiyckuk
Changers in Ukrainian society and in country – personal point of view (Зміни в українському суспільстві і в країні – особиста точка зору) …read more Source:...
Three Ukrainian soldiers killed in upsurge in east (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Three Ukrainian soldiers were killed and eight wounded in a fresh “escalation” of fighting between pro-Russian rebels and government forces, Kiev said Monday. …read more Source: The West...
EU leader Juncker to visit Russia in sign of diplomatic thaw
MOSCOW (AP) ” A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin says the European Commission’s president is coming to Russia next month in what would be the most high-profile EU visit since Russia annexed Crimea two years ago.Dmitry… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Pro-Russian rebels kill 5 Ukrainian soldiers
Five Ukrainian servicemen have been killed and four wounded in the past 24 hours as a result of attacks by pro-Russian rebels in separatist eastern regions. …read more Source:...
17 killed in care home fire in Ukraine (AAP)
Seventeen people have died after a fire inside a building for senior citizens near Kiev. …read more Source: The West...
Fire at Ukrainian home for the elderly kills 17, injures 5
MOSCOW (AP) ” Ukraine’s emergency services say a pre-dawn fire has swept through a private home for the elderly, killing 17 people and injuring five others.No cause has yet been determined for the fire that broke out Sunday at the… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Five Ukrainian soldiers killed, four wounded in separatist east (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Five Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and another four wounded in fresh clashes with pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country, the second biggest casualty toll in a single day this year, the military said on Sunday. …read more Source: The West...
Seventeen die in fire at Ukraine home for elderly: official
Seventeen people are dead after a makeshift home for elderly people outside the Ukrainian capital Kiev caught fire in the early hours of Sunday, local emergency services say. …read more Source: ABC...
