Section: Australia&NZ
US judge orders release of Trump’s dealings with Ukraine
The US State Department will have 30 days to begin handing over documents related to the president’s dealings with Ukraine. …read more Source:: The Sydney Morning...
Journalist Stanislav Aseyev sentenced to 15 years in a penal colony – Українського журналіста Станіслава Асєєва засудили до 15 років ув’язнення
A court established by Russia-backed separatists who hold parts of eastern Ukraine has sentenced journalist Stanislav Aseyev, an RFE/RL contributor, to 15 years in a penal colony. Aseyev, who wrote under the pen name Stanislav Vasin, disappeared in Ukraine’s Donetsk region on June 2, 2017, and has been held in detention since by the...
Ukraine leader ‘felt pressure’ from US to investigate Biden before Trump phone call
More than two months before the phone call that launched the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, Ukraine’s newly elected leader was already worried about pressure from the US president to investigate his Democratic rival… …read more Source:: The New Zealand...
Republican lawmakers disrupt impeachment inquiry
House Republican Whip Steve Scalise, who led the confrontation, told reporters: “There are going to be other things done to push even harder to have a fair and open process.” Photo: Reuters A US House of Representatives impeachment inquiry has devolved into chaos as Republican lawmakers, encouraged by President Donald Trump to get...
‘Alarming circumstances’: A distressed diplomat tells a tale of venal intrigue
Ambassador William Taylor Jr. looked out over the front lines of Ukraine’s long war with Russian-backed separatists last July, taking in a damaged bridge and then farther in the distance, an “armed and hostile” enemy.Taylor had… …read more Source:: The New Zealand...
US diplomat: Trump linked Ukraine aid to demand for probe
Top US diplomat says Trump held back military aid from Ukraine unless they agreed to investigate political rivals. …read more Source::...
UKRAINE AND AUSTRALIA, THE WAR WITH RUSSIA AND THE “STEINMEIER FORMULA” – Україна і Австралія, війна з Росією та “формула Штанмайєра”
Bogdan Rudnytski interviewed the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Australia Dr Mykola Kulinich. We spoke about the meetings of Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Yehor BOZHOK with MR. TONY SHEEHAN, Deputy Secretary DFAT – International Security, Humanitarian and Consular Group, and with other...
Trump impeachment: US envoy condemns ‘irregular’ pressure on Ukraine
A top US diplomat says President Trump made the release of military aid to Ukraine conditional on a pledge that a political rival would be investigated. …read more Source:: Radio New...
‘I sensed something odd’: US envoy testifies Trump tied Ukraine aid to spurious probes
Lawmakers who emerged after nearly 10 hours of the private deposition were stunned at Taylor’s account, which some Democrats said established a “direct line” to the quid pro quo at the center of the impeachment probe. …read more Source:: The Sydney Morning...
Mick Mulvaney’s missteps draw scrutiny from Donald Trump allies
For Mick Mulvaney, the hits just keep on coming.First, US President Donald Trump’s acting chief of staff stirred up a tempest by acknowledging that the administration had held up aid to Ukraine in part to prod that country to investigate… …read more Source:: The New Zealand...
