Section: Australia&NZ
Kerry, Lavrov to meet as tensions soar over Ukraine (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Top US diplomat John Kerry is set to meet his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Rome on Sunday, amid anger in Moscow over the prospect of new US sanctions and possible supply of lethal military aid to Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
US and Russia diplomats to discuss Ukraine
US diplomat John Kerry is to talk new sanctions and US weapon supply to Ukraine with Russian diplomat Sergei Lavrov in Rome today. …read more Source:...
Baltics up defence spending as Russia buzzes borders (AFP)
Riga (AFP) – Russia’s meddling in Ukraine has delivered a wake-up call on defence spending to small Baltic states which spent half a century under Soviet occupation and now fear the Kremlin’s territorial ambitions. …read more Source: The West...
Desperate shortages leave Ukraine ill-prepared for trauma of war (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – With Ukraine still trapped in a Soviet-era approach to mental health and psychiatric hospitals so under-funded that some have less than 10 cents a day to feed patients, the country has been left ill-prepared for the trauma of war. …read more Source: The West...
Attacks reported, drone spotted in eastern Ukraine despite ceasefire: military
The Ukrainian army reports 11 attacks against its positions in the east where a ceasefire is tentatively holding, and said a drone was spotted over Mariupol, the last major eastern town under its control. …read more Source: ABC...
Russia threatens response if US sets new sanctions over Ukraine (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Russia responded angrily on Saturday to news that US senators had passed a bill calling for fresh sanctions against Moscow and the supply of lethal military aid to Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Russia will react if US imposes new sanctions
Russia will take countermeasures if the US imposes new sanctions on Moscow over the Ukraine crisis, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov says. …read more Source:...
Russia reaches out to Europe’s far-right parties
VIENNA (AP) ” A Russian loan to France’s National Front. Invitations to Moscow for leaders of Austria’s Freedom Party. Praise for Vladimir Putin from the head of Britain’s anti-European Union party.As the diplomatic chill over Ukraine… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Russia will react if US imposes new sanctions
Russia will take countermeasures if the US imposes new sanctions on Moscow over the Ukraine crisis, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister says. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Russia outraged at US military aid to Ukraine
Russia has expressed outrage at the US Senate’s approval of a bill to potentially provide lethal military aid to Ukraine. …read more Source:...
