Section: Australia&NZ
Pro-Russians blast destruction of Soviet statues in Ukraine (AFP)
Kharkiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Masked men toppled Soviet-era statues in night raids in Ukraine’s second city Saturday, as moves to erase fraught symbols of the past widen the country’s divide. …read more Source: The West...
Soviet-era statues smashed as Ukraine likens Russia to Nazis (AFP)
Kharkiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Masked men smashed communist-era monuments in Ukraine’s second city overnight Friday after the country’s pro-Western parliament voted to purge the nation of Soviet symbols and its head of state compared today’s Russia to Nazi Germany. …read more Source: The West...
Russia lashes out at law to erase Ukraine’s Soviet past (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Controversial laws designed to leave Ukraine’s Soviet past behind stoked tension in the war-divided country Friday and prompted an angry reaction from Russia which called the ban on communist-era symbols “totalitarian”. …read more Source: The West...
Russia slams Ukrainian law banning Communist-era symbols
MOSCOW (AP) ” The Russian Foreign Ministry has denounced Ukraine for new laws that ban symbols of the former Communist regime and recognize partisans who fought against the Red Army as freedom-fighters.A ministry statement said… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Germany to bring back 100 mothballed tanks
BERLIN (AP) ” The German military plans to bring 100 mothballed tanks back into service as it deals with increased demands from the Ukraine crisis.Defense Ministry spokesman Jens Flosdorff said Friday that the military will pay… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine says 39 pro-Russian ‘saboteurs’ arrested in Odessa (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukrainian authorities on Thursday said 39 people had been arrested for planning a pro-Russian rebellion in the southern port city of Odessa which has been rocked by mysterious explosions in past months. …read more Source: The West...
Amnesty condemns ‘summary killing’ of Ukraine troops by rebels (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Amnesty International on Thursday said it had new proof of the “summary killings” of Ukrainian soldiers captured by pro-Russian separatist fighters in eastern Ukraine, and demanded a quick impartial probe. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine outlaws Communist names in fresh break with Soviet past (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine on Thursday outlawed Communist names, symbols and even songs in a fresh break with the country’s Soviet past as its soldiers fight pro-Russian separatists in the east. …read more Source: The West...
4 foreign ministers to discuss Ukraine in Berlin Monday
BERLIN (AP) ” Germany’s foreign minister has invited his counterparts from Russia, Ukraine and France to Berlin Monday to discuss implementation of the peace agreement brokered in Minsk, Belarus in February.The Foreign Ministry… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine rebels ‘killed govt soldiers’ (AP)
Amnesty International says they believe Russian-backed soldiers executed captured Ukrainian soldiers in the country’s civil war. …read more Source: The West...
