Section: Australia&NZ
Hunger-striking Ukrainian pilot in ‘satisfactory condition’ (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – A jailed female Ukrainian pilot, who this week rejected food and water to protest delays in her controversial murder trial in Russia, is in “satisfactory condition,” her lawyer said Sunday. …read more Source: The West...
US whiz kid turned out to be a 23-year-old Ukrainian man
Honour student Asher Potts was well into his senior year in a Pennsylvania high school when police got a tip that the earnest teenager who had greatly impressed community leaders for nearly four years was not the person he claimed to be. …read more Source:...
Fresh French-German push for Ukraine rebel polls flounders (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – A fresh European push to resolve one of its bloodiest crises in decades floundered when Ukraine and Russia said Friday they could not agree on polls in areas under the control of pro-Moscow separatists. …read more Source: The West...
Lavrov says ‘no consensus’ over polls in rebel east Ukraine (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that “no consensus” has been reached over the timing of polls in rebel-held east Ukraine, after France and Germany pushed for elections to be held by the end of July. …read more Source: The West...
Ukrainian pilot on trial pledges to keep up hunger strike
MOSCOW (AP) ” A Ukrainian pilot on trial in Russia says she will remain on hunger strike until she is extradited back home.Nadezhda Savchenko was fighting with a Ukrainian volunteer battalion against Russia-backed rebels in eastern… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Whiz kid was really 23-year-old Ukrainian, officials say
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) ” The arrest of a Pennsylvania high school student on identity theft and sexual assault charges is drawing astonished reactions from people who knew the boyish looking 23-year-old through his stellar academic… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Kiev, Moscow agree to hold vote in east Ukraine by end July: French FM (AFP)
Paris (AFP) – The foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France agreed Thursday that elections should be held in eastern Ukraine by the end of July, France’s Jean-Marc Ayrault said. …read more Source: The West...
France calls for prisoner exchange in Ukraine conflict
PARIS (AP) ” France’s foreign minister is calling for an April 30 deadline for a prisoner exchange in the Ukraine conflict and local elections by mid-year in the Donbas region.After a meeting with his Russian, Ukrainian and German… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Pilot: ‘You’re all f—ing idiots’
THE trial of a Ukrainian military pilot in connection with the deaths of two Russian journalists has been adjourned amid a furious exchange. …read more Source:...
France, Germany demand ‘real progress’ on Ukraine peace talks (AFP)
Paris (AFP) – France and Germany expect “real progress” from Ukraine and Russia on resolving the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Thursday ahead of talks between the four countries in Paris. …read more Source: The West...
