Section: Australia&NZ
Dutch prosecutors: fragments from MH17 site may be from Russian-made missile
Dutch prosecutors from a joint international criminal investigation into the 2014 downing of flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine say some of the debris recovered from the site may belong to a Russian-made missile system. …read more Source:...
Prosecutors: Possible BUK missile parts found at MH17 site
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) ” Dutch prosecutors have said for the first time that they have found possible parts of a BUK missile system at the site in eastern Ukraine where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was brought down last year,… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Dutch prosecutors – fragments from MH17 site may be from Russian-made missile (Reuters)
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch prosecutors from a joint international criminal investigation into the 2014 downing of flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine say some of the debris recovered from the site may bel… …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine reports heaviest shelling in six months
Ukraine has accused pro-Russian rebels of carrying out the heaviest artillery attacks on government positions in six months and warned of signs the conflict was escalating despite a ceasefire deal. read more …read more Source: Otago Daily...
US warns of sharp rise in separatist attacks in Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) ” The United States says Ukrainian rebels launched more attacks over the last three days than any similar time period since February, in what may be an escalating effort by Russian-backed militants to destabilize Ukraine’s… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine ‘repels’ rare tank assault by pro-Russian rebels (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine on Monday reported it had repelled a rare tank assault by pro-Russian rebels that threatened to shatter a shaky ceasefire and dangerously escalate the 16-month war in its breakaway east. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine reports heavy tank battle with pro-Russians (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine on Monday reported repelling a rare tank assault by pro-Russian rebels that threatened to usher in a dangerous escalation to the 16-month war. …read more Source: The West...
Vladimir Putin, failed spy
The ex-KGB officer seated in front of me raised his hand to interrupt my brief monologue on Vladimir Putin’s “hybrid” war in Ukraine. It was clearly the work of someone formed by the Soviet intelligence service, I was opining, of… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Gerard Depardieu banned from Ukraine
Gerard Depardieu has been named on a list of 14 Russian singers and actors whose work will be banned from TV, radio and cinemas in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Four OSCE vehicles set fire in Donetsk in ‘arson attack’ (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – OSCE observers based in the separatist stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine said Sunday that four of their vehicles were destroyed in an apparent arson attack at their hotel. …read more Source: The West...
