Section: Australia&NZ
Ukraine vows to show off ‘captured Russian soldiers’ (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine vowed on Monday to present to the public two Russian soldiers it claimed to have captured while fighting Moscow-backed forces in the separatist east. …read more Source: The West...
Russians troops captured in Ukraine on their way to capital
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ” A Ukrainian military spokesman says two Russian soldiers captured in the war-torn east of the country are on their way to the capital, Kiev.Ukrainian officials said Sunday two Russians were wounded and taken… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
US envoy Victoria Nuland to hold talks with Russians on peace deal for Ukraine
US State Department official Victoria Nuland arrived in Moscow for negotiations just days after US Secretary of State John Kerry met for four hours with Russian President Vladimir Putin. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Ukraine says 2 Russian officers captured near rebel area
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ” A Ukrainian military spokesman says government forces have captured two Russian officers who were operating in the rebel-controlled area.Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said on Sunday that two Russians… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Russian rocket carrying Mexican satellite crashes in Siberia
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ” A Russian rocket carrying a Mexican satellite malfunctioned and crashed Saturday in Siberia shortly after its launch ” the latest mishap to hit Russia’s troubled space industry, whose Soviet-era glory has been… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine president enacts controversial laws banning Soviet symbols (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Friday enacted laws banning Soviet symbols and communist-era propaganda, his office said, after the measures drew strong Russian criticism when they were approved by parliament last month. …read more Source: The West...
France offers Russia 785 mn euros to ditch warship deal: report (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – France has offered Russia its terms to scrap a contentious contract to supply two warships that was suspended due to the Ukraine crisis, but Moscow judged the sum as unacceptable, a report said Friday. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine’s economy contracts 17.6 pct as conflict takes toll
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ” Ukraine’s economy contracted by a stunning 17.6 percent in the first quarter of 2015 from a year earlier as the country struggles to cope with the impact of unrest in the industrial heartland of the east.The… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
US Senator McCain turns down Ukraine advisor role (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Republican US Senator John McCain has turned down a post as advisor to Ukraine’s pro-Western President Petro Poroshenko, saying constitutional constraints prohibited him from accepting. …read more Source: The West...
NATO ministers share singalong as Ukraine tensions continue
On Thursday, in a moment beyond satire, NATO’s foreign ministers linked arms and sang ‘We Are the World”. …read more Source:...
