Section: Australia&NZ
Tears and accusations as Ukraine buries mine blast victims (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Emotions ran high as mourners in east Ukraine on Friday laid to rest some of the 33 miners killed in an apparent gas blast at a notoriously dangerous coal mine in rebel-led Donetsk. …read more Source: The West...
‘On the brink’: Ukrainian pilot ends hunger strike in Russia jail (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko has ended a more than 80 days hunger strike in protest at her detention in Russia after her health came near to collapse, her lawyer said on Friday. …read more Source: The West...
Russia, Germany urge OSCE to boost Ukraine observers to 1,000 (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Russia and Germany on Friday urged the OSCE to more than double the number of its observers in Ukraine to 1,000, to monitor a sputtering ceasefire as the EU downplayed the threat of new sanctions against Moscow. …read more Source: The West...
Russia, Germany urge OSCE to double Ukraine observers to 1,000 (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Russia and Germany on Friday urged the OSCE, which is charged with monitoring a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine, to double the number of observers in the country to 1,000, Moscow said. …read more Source: The West...
Ukrainian pilot ends hunger strike in Russian jail: lawyer (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko has decided to end a hunger strike after going more than 80 days without food to protest her detention in a Russian jail, one of her lawyers said on Friday. …read more Source: The West...
UN says it has not received any Ukraine peacekeeping request
UNITED NATIONS (AP) ” The U.N. political chief says Ukraine still hasn’t submitted a formal request for a U.N. peacekeeping force to be stationed in eastern regions where government forces are battling Russian-backed separatists.Jeffrey… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Imprisoned Ukrainian ready to end hunger strike, lawyers say
MOSCOW (AP) ” Lawyers for a Ukrainian military officer imprisoned in Russia say she’s ready to end her nearly three-month hunger strike if she’s offered a balanced diet.Nadezhda Savchenko has been in Russian custody since June on… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine blockade breeding resentment
THE war in Ukraine that brought death and destruction to the region has largely abated, but the misery remains. …read more Source: THE...
EU chief speaks out against arms supplies for Kiev
RIGA, Latvia (AP) ” The European Union’s foreign policy chief is speaking out against bipartisan calls in the U.S. to provide lethal, defensive weapons to Ukraine in its fight against Russian-backed separatists.Some lawmakers from… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine declares heavy weapons pullback from front line
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ” Ukrainian military officials say government forces are withdrawing heavy rocket launchers from the front line with Russian-backed separatists in accordance with last month’s cease-fire accord.Military spokesman… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
