Section: Australia&NZ
‘Like the last judgment’ in Donetsk
With the conflict in eastern Ukraine laying waste to its cities and infrastructure, residents of war-torn Donetsk are being forced to live with the bare minimum. …read more Source:...
Peace talks between Kiev, separatist rebels break down
Peace talks aimed at working out a truce agreement between pro-Russian rebels and Ukraine have ended without a deal. …read more Source: ABC...
Scramble to treat wounded at last Ukraine frontline hospital (AFP)
Artemivsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – A constant stream of ambulances, lorries and civilian cars screeches to a halt outside the last working hospital in this area of the Ukrainian frontline, delivering a growing number of those wounded in intense clashes. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine peace talks break up, key players leave meeting in different cars
Peace talks on the Ukraine crisis, involving Ukrainian and Russian representatives and separatist envoys, broke up on Saturday after more than four hours with key players leaving the venue by different cars, a Reuters witness said. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
2 passengers killed in bus crash in eastern Slovakia
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) ” Slovak officials say two passengers have been killed in a crash of a Czech bus heading for the city of Uzhorod in Ukraine.Andrej Hirjak of Slovakia’s rescue service says the accident occurred shortly… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
3 civilians dead in intense fighting in eastern Ukraine
DEBALTSEVE, Ukraine (AP) ” A top Ukrainian official says at least three civilians were killed overnight in intense fighting between pro-Russian separatists and government troops in eastern Ukraine.Donetsk regional police chief Vyacheslav… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Hungary under pressure to pick sides in Russia-EU standoff (AFP)
Budapest (AFP) – Hungary’s maverick Prime Minister Viktor Orban has spent the past year straddling the divide between Russia and his European Union counterparts on the crisis in Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine talks, clashes follow EU sanctions
The EU has expanded its raft of sanctions against Russia as fighting continues in the east and fresh moves are made hold peace talks. …read more Source:...
In Ukraine’s rebel capital daily life is fraught with deadly danger (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Civilians queuing for aid handouts in Ukraine’s rebel stronghold of Donetsk on Friday became the five latest casualties of a conflict which makes daily life a gamble, for those who haven’t already fled. …read more Source: The West...
On Ukraine battlefield, one act of mercy becomes an internet sensation
The phone connection from my living room in Berlin to the battlefield in eastern Ukraine couldn’t have been better. First Lieutenant Alexei Chaban of the Ukrainian 17th Tank Brigade came in loud and clear, the sound of gunfire in the distance. “There’s some shelling going on,” he said. “If the line cuts out,...
