Section: Australia&NZ
Ukraine rips up key cooperation deals with Russia (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Kiev lawmakers on Thursday annulled five crucial security agreements with Moscow that allowed Russia to transport troops to a separatist region of Moldova and purchase weapons only produced in Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine lawmakers suspend military cooperation with Russia
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ” Ukraine’s parliament has voted to suspend military cooperation with Russia in a long-anticipated move signaling a further break in relations between the once-close partners.The five cooperation agreements scrapped… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine waging ‘real war’ with Russia
Petro Poroshenko has sparked fresh Kremlin fury by warning that Russia is fighting a “real war” against Russian aggressors. …read more Source:...
Ukraine pres: ‘Russia at war with us’
UKRAINE’s president says the country is fighting a “real war” with Russia after the capture of two alleged Russian soldiers in the ex-Soviet state. …read more Source:...
Russians hurt and far fromhome
Two Russian soldiers say there were captured and wounded while on active duty in the east of Ukraine. …read more Source: THE...
Russian activists say find fresh graves of soldiers killed in Ukraine (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Russian opposition activists investigating the deaths of three special forces soldiers said Wednesday their findings indicate that elite Russian army reconnaissance units are operating in Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine charges two suspected Russian soldiers with ‘terrorist activity’ (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine has charges two suspected Russian soldiers who were captured during a gun battle in the separatist eastern region of Lugansk with involvement in “terrorist activity,” a security official said Wednesday. …read more Source: The West...
Poroshenko says Ukraine waging ‘real war’ with Russia (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said in an interview broadcast on Wednesday that his crisis-torn country was fighting a “real war” with Russia that could escalate at any time. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine open to hosting missile defense system
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ” A senior Ukrainian security official says his country is open to placing a ballistic missile-defense system in Ukraine to ward off the potential risk of attacks from Russia.Oleksandr Turchynov, the head of Ukraine’s… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ex-Soviet Georgia urges EU progress, despite Russian pressure (AFP)
Tbilisi (AFP) – Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili has warned European Union leaders against letting Russian aggression in Ukraine undermine the bloc’s project of building closer links with ex-Soviet nations. …read more Source: The West...
