Section: Australia&NZ
Residents return to ‘hellish’ ruins in Ukraine town (AFP)
Nikishyne (Ukraine) (AFP) – Not a single building in Nikishyne escaped undamaged after months of intense bombardment, which helped shrink the village of 700 to a handful residents as fighting raged in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Russia drops treason charges against mother of seven: lawyer (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Russia on Friday dropped treason charges against a mother of seven, whose arrest for allegedly informing Ukraine about Russian troop movements sparked an outcry in the country, her lawyer said. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine requests UN peacekeeping mission
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ” Ukraine says it has placed a formal request with the United Nations for a peacekeeping mission to be deployed in its eastern regions, where a cease-fire between government and Russian-backed separatist forces… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine’s grinding war stains innocence of childhood
KHARTSYZK, Ukraine (AP) ” Seryozha colors in his drawing of a tank, lost in thought. Like many 7-year-olds in eastern Ukraine, he has trouble recalling a time before the war.”They’ve always been shooting,” he says, vigorously scratching… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
MH17: New evidence on downing of passenger plane over Ukraine
Villagers in eastern Ukraine have told Reuters they saw a missile flying directly overhead just before Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was shot out of the sky. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Ukraine crisis: Inside the Mariupol base of the controversial Azov battalion
The Azov battalion is a highly controversial paramilitary group that fights alongside regular Ukrainian forces, but the group itself says its soldiers have a much higher purpose than “winning the war”. …read more Source: ABC...
Kremlin says Ukraine moving too slowly to fulfill peace deal
MOSCOW (AP) ” Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman is accusing Ukraine of dragging its feet on implementing last month’s peace deal.Dmitry Peskov told The Associated Press on Thursday that while hostilities in eastern Ukraine… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Cash-strapped Ukraine launches crucial debt talks (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine on Thursday said it would begin negotiations with creditors on restructuring the conflict-torn country’s debt, a move called for in its high-stakes multibillion-dollar bailout from the International Monetary Fund. …read more Source: The West...
OSCE doubles Ukraine observer mission to 1,000 (AFP)
Vienna (AFP) – The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe is to double the potential size of its observer mission in war-torn eastern Ukraine to up to 1,000 personnel, a spokeswoman for the security body told AFP Thursday. …read more Source: The West...
OSCE to double Ukraine observer mission to 1,000 (AFP)
Vienna (AFP) – The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe is to roughly double the size of its observer mission in war-torn eastern Ukraine to up to 1,000 personnel, a spokeswoman for the security body told AFP Thursday. …read more Source: The West...
