Section: Australia&NZ
Ukraine helicopter pilot slams ‘lies’ as murder trial starts in Russia (AFP)
Donets (Russia) (AFP) – Ukrainian airforce helicopter pilot Nadiya Savchenko on Tuesday blasted Russian prosecution ‘lies’ against her at the start of a trial over the murder of two journalists that has caused outrage in Kiev and the West. …read more Source: The West...
NATO chief stops short of backing Ukraine membership (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – The head of NATO said Tuesday that “Ukraine can rely on” the Western military alliance but stopped short of infuriating Russia by backing the ex-Soviet republic’s membership in the Cold War-era bloc. …read more Source: The West...
High-profile trial of Ukrainian officer begins in Russia
MOSCOW (AP) ” A Russian court has begun hearing the high-profile case against Ukrainian officer Nadezhda Savchenko, who is charged in the deaths of two Russian journalists in eastern Ukraine.Russian investigators allege that Savchenko,… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Russian court starts hearing Ukrainian pilot’s murder trial (AFP)
Donetsk (Russia) (AFP) – A Russian court on Tuesday started hearing a case against Ukrainian helicopter pilot Nadiya Savchenko over the murder of two Russian journalists in a trial that has caused outrage in Kiev and the West. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine leader expresses wish to join NATO
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ” Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has told the country’s security council that staying out of the NATO alliance was a “criminal” policy that his government is ready to reverse.Ukraine has been fighting with… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine’s richest man plays both sides of war’s frontline
KRASNODON, Ukraine (AP) ” In this town deep in eastern Ukraine’s rebel heartland, about a quarter of the population works in the coal mines owned by billionaire Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine’s richest man. Here and elsewhere in territory… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Hundreds of foreign fighters join pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine
Some call them ‘Rambo wannabes’, but for the hundreds of foreign volunteers who have reportedly taken up arms in Ukraine, the struggle against what they claim is pro-Western fascism is deadly serious. …read more Source: ABC...
NATO’s Stoltenberg begins first visit to Ukraine
LVIV, Ukraine (AP) ” NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg began his first visit to Ukraine Monday, meeting with President Petro Poroshenko and helping inaugurate a joint disaster response drill that Poroshenko hailed as more evidence… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Russia still arming Ukraine rebels despite truce: NATO chief (AFP)
Yavoriv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Russia is still sending weapons to separatist rebels battling the Ukrainian government despite a fresh truce in the war-torn east of the country, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Monday. …read more Source: The West...
NATO says Russia must withdraw heavy weapons from Ukraine (Reuters)
By Robin Emmott LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday an ebb in violence in eastern Ukraine was not enough to bring peace and demanded Russia withdraw hea… …read more Source: The West...
