Section: Australia&NZ
Ukraine rebels: Ready to pull back tanks, smaller weapons
MOSCOW (AP) ” Ukraine’s Russia-backed separatist rebels say they are ready to pull back smaller-caliber weapons from much of the front line in eastern Ukraine.Under a February armistice, both the rebels and the Ukrainian forces… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Four dead as fighting flares in east Ukraine (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Three civilians and one Ukrainian soldier have been killed over the past day in renewed fighting in the east of the country, where pro-Russian rebels are waging an insurgency, Kiev said on Saturday. …read more Source: The West...
BBC claims News Corp MH17 exclusive video broadcast a year ago
News Corporation’s so-called “exclusive” MH17 crash footage smuggled out of a Ukrainian rebel base was broadcast a year ago by the BBC, the broadcaster’s Australian correspondent says. …read more Source:...
BBC claims News Corp MH17 exclusive video broadcast a year ago
News Corporation’s so-called “exclusive” MH17 crash footage smuggled out of a Ukrainian rebel base was broadcast a year ago by the BBC, the broadcaster’s Australian correspondent says. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
MH17 crash: Ukraine points finger at Russia as families mark anniversary
Families of the victims of the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 gathered in the Netherlands to mark the first anniversary of the tragedy, as Ukraine’s president accused Russia’s military of responsibility for the disaster which killed 298 civilians, 38 of them Australian. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
France, Germany, Russia, Ukraine urge ‘respect’ of Ukraine truce (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – The leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine called Friday for a “strict respect of engagements” pledged in a peace deal to end the Ukraine crisis, the French presidency said of the first four-way talks in more than two months. …read more Source: The West...
Germany, France call for Minsk agreement to be fully effective by end 2015 (Reuters)
PARIS (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande held a telephone conversation with the leaders of Russia and Ukraine on Friday to discuss the situation in east… …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine president vows justice over MH17
Ukraine president Petro Poroshenko has called it a “moral duty” to punish the “murderers” who killed 298 people by downing Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over rebel-held territory one year ago. …read more Source:...
Russia dismisses Kiev’s ‘imitation’ of constitutional reform (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Russia on Friday dismissed constitutional amendments proposed by Kiev to decentralise Ukraine as part of the peace process as merely an “imitation” of compliance. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine outrages Moscow by deporting top Russian envoy (AFP)
Kiev (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukraine outraged Russia on Friday by expelling Moscow’s top envoy to a vital Black Sea region now governed by the pro-Western former president of Georgia. …read more Source: The West...
