Section: Australia&NZ
Hundreds evacuated after Kiev blast
Ukraine has urgently evacuated hundreds of residents from the site of a series of fuel depot blasts near Kiev. …read more Source:...
Ukraine fuel depot blaze under control
Emergency services have stopped a fuel depot fire outside Kiev from spreading, officials say, but the fate of three firemen missing after the blaze triggered a powerful explosion remains unknown. read more …read more Source: Otago Daily...
NATO launches ‘spearhead’ drill on eastern flank (AFP)
Zagan (Poland) (AFP) – NATO on Tuesday launched the first full drill of its new spearhead force in northern Poland, a structure designed to boost security on its eastern flank in the wake of Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Deadly Kiev fuel blasts set off blaze near military unit (AFP)
Kryachki (Ukraine) (AFP) – Hundreds of Ukrainian firefighters battled Tuesday to keep a blaze sparked by a deadly string of fuel depot blasts from engulfing a strategic military unit outside Kiev that has Mig-29 fighter jets and rockets on site. …read more Source: The West...
Firefighters killed as fuel tanks explode
A powerful explosion killed a number of firefighters yesterday as they fought to control a blazing fuel depot which had burned through the night outside the Ukrainian capital Kiev.At least nine tanks storing mainly petrol at the… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Fuel depot blaze in Ukraine kills five, including three firemen
A massive fire at a Ukrainian fuel depot killed five people on Tuesday (Wednesday NZT), officials said, including three firemen who went missing after the flames triggered a powerful explosion. …read more Source:...
Kiev evacuates hundreds after Kiev fuel depot blasts (AFP)
Kryachki (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukraine urgently evacuated hundreds of residents Tuesday from the site of a series of fuel depot blasts near Kiev that set off a ferocious fire and left several people missing and at least one confirmed dead. …read more Source: The West...
Massive blaze engulfs fuel depot
FIREFIGHTERS are frantically working to contain a deadly inferno engulfing a Ukrainian fuel depot before it reaches a nearby military air base. …read more Source:...
G7 warns ‘wrong-headed’ Putin
World leaders warned they were prepared to extend sanctions on Russia despite their ruinous economic impact. …read more Source: THE...
Russia says closer ties with Latin America are not jab at US
MOSCOW (AP) ” Russia’s foreign minister has rejected allegations that Moscow was trying to develop closer ties with Latin American nations as a countermove to the United States amid the Ukrainian crisis.Speaking after Tuesday’s… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
