Section: Australia&NZ
US troops drive in eastern Europe to show defense readiness
WARSAW, Poland (AP) ” A U.S. army infantry convoy is driving through eastern Europe seeking to provide reassurance to a region concerned that the conflict between Russian-backed rebels and government forces in Ukraine threatens its… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Deposed Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych’s son drowns in icy lake
Viktor Yanukovych, the younger son of the deposed Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, drowned when his car went through ice on Russia’s Lake Baikal. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Russia has ‘more right’ to Crimea than UK to Falklands, says Moscow (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Russia has more claim to Crimea than Britain has to the Falkland Islands, a senior Russian lawmaker insisted Sunday as London again denounced Moscow’s “illegal annexation” of the peninsula. …read more Source: The West...
Russia hosts extreme far-right forum
REPRESENTATIVES of some of Europe’s most extreme nationalist groups have met in Russia to show their support for Moscow’s actions in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Ukraine truce shaken by artillery fire
Artillery fire has rocked the Donetsk in the latest clashes to rattle an internationally-brokered ceasefire. …read more Source:...
Yanukovych’s younger son reported dead in accident in Russia
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ” An associate of Ukraine’s deposed president says the former leader’s son has died in an accident in which a vehicle plunged through the ice on Lake Baikal in Russia.Nestor Shufrych, a deputy in Ukraine’s parliament,… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Artillery rocks Ukraine rebel bastion Donetsk despite truce (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Artillery fire rocked the outskirts of the rebel-held east Ukraine city of Donetsk on Sunday in the latest clashes to rattle an internationally brokered ceasefire between pro-Russian separatists and Kiev. …read more Source: The West...
In Ukraine, some Russians take up arms against Putin (AFP)
Odessa (Ukraine) (AFP) – When Andrei Krasilnikov hugged his wife good-bye last week and climbed onto a bus to take him back to the frontline in eastern Ukraine, his motive was typical of those fighting for Kiev — to defend his family and future from what he perceives as Russian aggression. …read more Source: The West...
Artillery fire breaks out in east Ukraine (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Intensive artillery fire broke out Sunday near the rebel-held city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, apparently breaking an internationally brokered ceasefire between pro-Russian separatists and the Ukrainian government, an AFP reporter said. …read more Source: The West...
US air defense troops train fast deployment in Poland
SOCHACZEW, Poland (AP) ” U.S. air defense troops are training rapid deployment of Patriot missile launchers in Poland amid concerns that the conflict between Russia-backed rebels and government forces in Ukraine is threatening the… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
