Section: Australia&NZ
Deadly Ukraine attack condemned by UN
The UN Security Council, including Russia, has strongly condemned the “reprehensible” shelling of a trolleybus in east Ukraine and said those responsible should be brought to justice. …read more Source:...
US to back new system warning airlines in conflict zones
The United States will throw its support behind a proposal by the UN’s aviation agency to share information about risks to commercial aircraft over conflict zones after the downing of a Malaysian jet in Ukraine last year, according to a senior US official. …read more Source:...
Ukraine troops cede prized airport to pro-Russia rebels (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine’s military on Thursday said days of unceasing artillery strikes by pro-Russian insurgents had forced its soldiers to abandon a shattered airport that had become the symbolic prize of the nine-month war. …read more Source: The West...
Rebels parade Ukrainian POWs through shelled city (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Captured Ukrainian soldiers were paraded through the rebel-held city of Donetsk on Thursday and forced to kneel before angry locals who spat and pelted them with snowballs and shards of glass. …read more Source: The West...
13 killed in Donetsk bus attack
Thirteen civilians have died after shells hit a trolleybus in Ukraine’s rebel bastion Donetsk. …read more Source:...
Eight civilians killed in shelling of Ukraine trolleybus
An artillery shell or mortar struck a public transport stop in the rebel-controlled city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, killing at least eight civilians in an incident both sides blamed on the other. read more …read more Source: Otago Daily...
Pro-Russian rebels parade Ukraine troops
Captured Ukrainian soldiers have been paraded through the rebel-held city of Donetsk and forced to kneel before angry locals. …read more Source:...
Ukraine leader says pro-Russia rebels paid ‘high price’ for attacks (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Thursday that pro-Russian rebels had paid a “high price” for their escalating attacks on government forces across the separatist east. …read more Source: The West...
NATO: Fighting in eastern Ukraine fiercer than ever
There are reports that 9,000 Russian troops have entered into Ukraine. …read more Source: Television New...
Georgians in Ukraine fight shadow war
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) ” The return of a Georgian fighter’s body to his homeland from Ukraine on Thursday was a grim reminder of how eastern Ukraine’s conflict carries traces of a war of a quarter-century ago.About 100 Georgian volunteers… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
