Section: Australia&NZ
Health groups slam Ukraine for slow polio response (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Global health groups accused Ukraine on Friday of being critically late and ineffective in responding to Europe’s first polio outbreak since 2010. …read more Source: The West...
Lemkos: Abandoned minority of shattered Ukraine war zone (AFP)
Peremozhne (Ukraine) (AFP) – Partially blind Tetyana has been living near the skeletal remains of a rebel-held airport in eastern Ukraine and surviving off hand-picked vegetables since war gripped the EU’s backyard last year. …read more Source: The West...
Few answers in final MH17 report
SINCE flight MH17 was downed over Ukraine on July 17 last year, THE 298 victims’ families have sought answers. Next week, they may get some. …read more Source:...
Official: Moscow could hand over imprisoned Ukrainian
MOSCOW (AP) ” Russia’s justice minister says Moscow is open to discussing handing over to Kiev a Ukrainian pilot charged with the murder of two journalists.Nadezhda Savchenko, a Ukrainian pilot who served in a volunteer battalion… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
UN: Polio vaccines in Ukraine safe despite local concerns
LONDON (AP) ” The World Health Organization says it’s worried that millions of doses of polio vaccine might be wasted in the Ukraine after concerns were raised by a patient group that the doses are unsafe.The oral polio vaccine… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Missile fragments ‘found in MH17 bodies’
Fragments of a Buk anti-aircraft missile have been found in the bodies of victims of the Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 disaster in eastern Ukraine, an investigator has said.Vasyl Vovk, a senior officer of the Ukrainian Security Service… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Next stop Syria? Ukraine rebels weigh options as fighting stops (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – As fighting has dropped off in eastern Ukraine, pro-Russian rebels are weighing their options: wait for the conflict to resume, return to civilian life or even head to war-torn Syria. …read more Source: The West...
‘Real truce’ has begun in Ukraine – Poroshenko
President Petro Poroshenko says a “real truce” had begun in Ukraine but a long-lasting peace with pro-Russian insurgents would still take some time. …read more Source:...
‘Real truce’ has begun in Ukraine, says Poroshenko (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – President Petro Poroshenko said on Wednesday a “real truce” had begun in eastern Ukraine but a long-lasting peace with pro-Kremlin insurgents would still take some time. …read more Source: The West...
Poroshenko says ‘real truce’ has begun in Ukraine
President Petro Poroshenko says a “real truce” has begun in Ukraine, but a long-lasting peace with pro-Russian insurgents in its east would still take some time. …read more Source: ABC...
