Section: Australia&NZ
Sanctions-hit Russia in risky bet on Ukraine talks (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – It seems to have played out exactly as Western powers hoped: …read more Source: The West...
Missile hits bus in Ukraine, kills 11
A missile struck a passenger bus near a town in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, leaving 11 civilians dead and 17 wounded, officials say. …read more Source:...
Russia: Gas to Europe should go via Turkey, not Ukraine
MOSCOW (AP) ” Russia’s state natural gas company wants its exports to Europe to bypass Ukraine entirely and go via a proposed new pipeline to Turkey.Gazprom head Alexei Miller made the statement Wednesday. He said European countries… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Rebels launch Ukraine offensive after bloody bus strike (AFP)
Tonenke (Ukraine) (AFP) – Pro-Kremlin insurgents unleashed a massive rocket assault in Ukraine Wednesday as Kiev and Moscow traded blame for a bus shelling that killed 12 in the war’s bloodiest incident since a September truce. …read more Source: The West...
Russia, Ukraine trade blame for bloody bus attack (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – The death toll from a stray rocket that hit a Ukrainian bus climbed to 12 on Wednesday as Moscow and Kiev traded blame for the separatist war’s bloodiest incident since a September truce. …read more Source: The West...
Merkel: Ukraine summit still possible, but unclear when
BERLIN (AP) ” German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she isn’t giving up hope of organizing a summit with the Russian and Ukrainian leaders, but she can’t say how long that might take after tentative plans for a meeting this week were… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Bus blast blows Ukraine peace hopes
AN attack on a bus in eastern Ukraine has killed 12 civilians, likely dealing the final blow to ceasefire hopes. …read more Source: THE...
Lack of aid deepens suffering in conflict-hit east Ukraine
DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) ” Valentina Dudareva’s voice cracks with despair as she stands in the snow, surveying the bombed-out windows of her apartment block in Donetsk, the separatist capital in eastern Ukraine.Cold, poor and hungry,… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Rocket kills 11 Ukrainians in bus strike
Eleven Ukraine civilians have been killed after a rocket hit a bus, with Kiev saying it was fired by pro-Russian separatists. …read more Source:...
10 killed as passenger bus attacked at Ukraine checkpoint
At least 10 civilians are killed and many others wounded near a checkpoint in eastern Ukraine after a passenger bus comes under heavy fire. …read more Source: ABC...
