Section: Australia&NZ
Lithuania restores compulsory military service
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) ” Lithuania has decided to restore compulsory military service for young men as tensions in Ukraine continue to worry the small Baltic nation.After a meeting of military leaders and top government officials,… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukrainian president signs memorandum to cooperate with UAE
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ” Ukraine’s president says his country has signed an agreement to cooperate with the United Arab Emirates on military and technical issues as he licked off a visit to the Western-allied Gulf nation.Petro… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
No one needs a conflict: Putin
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin says he thinks the prospect of all-out war between Russia and Ukraine is unlikely. …read more Source: THE...
4-way talks on Ukraine underway in Paris
PARIS (AP) ” Talks about a fragile peace deal for Ukraine are under way in Paris between the foreign ministers of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France.The meeting at the French Foreign Ministry comes amid scattered violence and uncertainty… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Poland’s Sikorski says Putin has ‘lost Ukraine’
WARSAW, Poland (AP) ” Poland’s Parliament speaker says that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s support of separatists in eastern Ukraine has backfired on him by stoking greater Ukrainian nationalism elsewhere in the country.Radek… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine rebels claim weapons pullback begins
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ” Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine say they have begun a large-scale pullback of heavy weapons in line with an international peace plan that aims to form a wide buffer zone between separatists’ and Ukrainian… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
OSCE says Ukraine cease-fire has lowered military exchanges
UNITED NATIONS (AP) ” The head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe says the cease-fire in Ukraine has “very significantly” lowered the level of military exchanges between government and separatist forces, but… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
‘Sasha Grey’: not a heroic Russian frontline nurse, a US porn star
A popular story about a Russian nurse slain in Ukraine is illustrated by a photo of a woman who has nothing to do with the conflict. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Russian president Vladimir Putin says war with Ukraine ‘unlikely’
Russian president Vladimir Putin says war with neighbouring Ukraine is unlikely, despite claims Russia has broken the fragile European-brokered ceasefire deal by opening fire on Ukrainian military personnel. …read more Source: ABC...
Ukraine rebels mark Soviet holiday for defenders of ‘fatherland’ (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Thousands of men and women gathered on Lenin square in east Ukraine’s main rebel-held city Donetsk on Monday to celebrate a Soviet-era holiday and pay hommage to their fallen fighters. …read more Source: The West...
