Section: Australia&NZ
New Ukraine peace talks fail to halt escalating clashes (AFP)
Minsk (AFP) – Ukraine on Tuesday reported the death of two soldiers as a fresh round of European-mediated talks with pro-Russian insurgents failed to break a deadlock over the future status of eastern separatist enclaves. …read more Source: The West...
‘Selfie’ proves Russia sent soldiers to fight in Ukraine: VICE News report
It’s the ‘selfie’ that, according to VICE news, proves beyond argument that Russia sent soldiers to fight in Ukraine. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Deadly clashes precede new Ukraine peace talks (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine on Tuesday reported the death of two soldiers in advance of European-mediated talks with pro-Russian insurgents aimed at breaking a deadlock over the future status of eastern separatist enclaves. …read more Source: The West...
In east Ukraine psychiatric ward, war deepens mental wounds
HORLIVKA, Ukraine (AP) ” Whenever the bombs fell, the men and women in the psychiatric ward would huddle in terror around fellow patient Valentina Izotova, a stout, maternal-looking woman, and she would read to them from her favorite… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
East Ukrainians in rare protest against Russian-backed rebels (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Several hundred Ukrainians in the country’s war-torn east demanded Monday that pro-Russian insurgents remove scores of rocket launchers from crowded city neighbourhoods and stop provoking government fire on their homes. …read more Source: The West...
Security agency wars add to Ukraine’s spreading woes (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – War-scarred Ukraine was engulfed Monday by a scandal involving the chiefs of its two main domestic security agencies amid claims of criminal dealings with top Russian tycoons. …read more Source: The West...
East Ukrainians stage rare rally against rebel command (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Several hundred Ukrainians in the country’s war-torn east demanded Monday that pro-Russian insurgents remove scores of rocket launchers from crowded city neighbourhoods and stop provoking return government fire on their homes. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine’s artillery duels again take toll on civilians
DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) ” Crackling forth over radio, the voice ordered tanks to take position in a residential area in Donetsk, the stronghold of separatist rebels in east Ukraine.The rebel armored vehicles trundled to their destination… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Poland says in talks with US on storing heavy weapons (AFP)
Warsaw (AFP) – Poland said on Sunday it is in talks with the United States on the possibility of Washington storing heavy weaponry on Polish soil, as regional tensions run high over Russia and the conflict in Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
AFP reporter injured in east Ukraine shelling (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – A local reporter working for Agence France-Presse (AFP) covering the war in eastern Ukraine was injured in the leg by shrapnel on Sunday in the separatists’ de facto capital Donetsk. …read more Source: The West...
