Section: Australia&NZ
Ukraine president urges Russia to withdraw troops
SYDNEY (AP) ” Australia has pledged its support for Ukraine during a visit by the nation’s president and urged Russia to honor a little-respected cease-fire agreement signed in September.Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott met… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine president pleads with Russia to withdraw (AFP)
Sydney (AFP) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Thursday pleaded with Russia to withdraw its troops from his country and close the border, saying it would lead to almost immediate peace. …read more Source: The West...
Gorbachev calls for US-Russia summit to defrost ties
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev called on Wednesday for a US-Russia summit to be convened to prevent a deep freeze in Moscow’s relations with the West over the Ukraine crisis. read more …read more Source: Otago Daily...
Truce holds in Ukraine but next steps uncertain (AFP)
Sulaimaniyah (Iraq) (AFP) – A day-old ceasefire largely held along the bloodied frontline in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday but hopes of peace talks and pulling back heavy weaponry still hung in the balance. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine to extend truce with separatists
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ” Ukraine says it will continue upholding a truce with Russian-backed separatists following a day largely free of exchanges of fire between the warring sides.Military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said Wednesday there… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Mysterious spate of bombings hit Ukraine military hub (AFP)
Kharkiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – The city of Kharkiv in Ukraine’s industrial east has stayed out of rebel hands but a mysterious spate of bombings has triggered fears that Russia is trying to destabilise this key defence hub. …read more Source: The West...
MH17 wreckage arrives at Dutch base (AFP)
Gilze-Rijen Airbase (Netherlands) (AFP) – A convoy carrying wreckage from Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 arrived at a Dutch airbase on Tuesday where it will be pieced together as part of a probe into its shooting down over Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Crimea annexation upends lives of Tatar minority
SARY-SU, Crimea (AP) ” Since Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine, armed men have shown up frequently to search the cinder-block houses, mosque and school in this settlement of Crimean Tatars, a Muslim ethnic minority that has long… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Crimea annexation upends lives of Tatar minority
SARY-SU, Crimea (AP) ” Since Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine, armed men have shown up frequently and at odd hours to search the cinder-block houses, mosque and school in this settlement of Crimean Tatars, a Muslim ethnic minority… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Dutch to begin reassembling MH17 wreckage
Crash investigators will try to reconstruct the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that was shot down over eastern Ukraine in July from wreckage that was brought by truck to a Dutch air force hangar. …read more Source:...
