Section: Australia&NZ
Ukrainian minister hopes resignation will speed up reforms
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ” The Ukrainian economy minister whose resignation plunged the country into yet another political crisis says he hopes the scandal will help create momentum for economic reforms.Aivaras Abromavicius resigned on… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Fighting flares up in eastern Ukraine
MOSCOW (AP) ” The Ukrainian government has accused Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine of violating the shaky truce with large-caliber weapons.The military conflict between government forces and separatist rebels in Ukraine’s… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine faces fresh crisis after economy minister quits (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine faced the prospect Thursday of a fresh political crisis sparked by its reformist economy minister’s resignation in protest at alleged influence-peddling and state graft. …read more Source: The West...
Hundreds of Soviet regime victims reburied in Ukraine (AFP)
Lviv (Ukraine) (AFP) – The remains of more than five hundred apparent victims of the Soviet regime were reburied on Wednesday at a cemetery in Ukraine’s western city of Lviv, local authorities said. …read more Source: The West...
Ukrainian border guards stop cigarette-smuggling horses
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ” Ukrainian officials say they have intercepted a small herd of horses attempting to bring thousands of euros worth of contraband cigarettes across the border from Ukraine to Romania.The country’s border guard… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Germany’s Merkel presses Putin on Ukraine separatists
BERLIN (AP) ” The German government says Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged President Vladimir Putin to use Russia’s influence with separatists in eastern Ukraine to help secure progress toward a political solution.Merkel’s office… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Merkel tells Putin to ‘use influence’ to rein in Ukraine rebels (AFP)
Berlin (AFP) – Chancellor Angela Merkel Tuesday told Russian President Vladimir Putin to use his influence to rein in pro-Kremlin rebels in eastern Ukraine, a day after the German leader warned that a peace deal was not being fully implemented. …read more Source: The West...
Russia still sending troops, weapons to east Ukraine: Poroshenko (AFP)
Berlin (AFP) – Ukraine’s president Monday accused Russia of sending troops and weapons into the ex-Soviet state’s conflict-torn east, and warned that a fragile peace deal was not being fully implemented. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine reports first military casualties in 3 weeks (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Two Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in the country’s war-torn east where government forces are seeking to put down a pro-Russian insurgency, the first reported casualties in nearly three weeks, Ukraine’s military said Sunday, …read more Source: The West...
Statue of controversial Bolshevik leader toppled in Ukraine (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukrainian activists in the eastern city of Dnipropetrovsk on Friday night toppled a statue of controversial Bolshevik leader Grigory Petrovsky, implicated in a famine that killed millions in the 1930s, city hall said. …read more Source: The West...
