Section: Australia&NZ
Ukraine plans $3 billion boost to defense spending
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) Ukraine’s president has vowed to boost military spending by 40 billion hryvnia ($3 billion) in the next three years as government forces seek to overpower pro-Russian separatists in the east.President Petro Poroshenko… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine president pledges $3 billion to rearm military (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Sunday promised to spend some $3. …read more Source: The West...
Shelling in Ukraine’s Donetsk tears family apart (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Face covered in soot, a grandfather sits in front of the three bodies of his loved ones muttering again and again his lament. …read more Source: The West...
Russian aid trucks leave Ukraine as Merkel calls for peace
German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for a swift diplomatic resolution to the conflict in Ukraine as trucks that sparked international condemnation by crossing into the country without consent returned to Russia. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Russia aid trucks draw West’s ire
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is due to arrive in Ukraine today for talks, a day after calling Russia’s decision to send an unauthorised aid convoy there a dangerous escalation.More than 260 Russian trucks entered eastern Ukraine… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Russian aid trucks quit Ukraine
THE West has rebuked Russia for sending trucks from an aid convoy to east Ukraine’s rebel-held Luhansk in a move Kiev decried as an “invasion”. …read more Source: THE...
Merkel calls for ceasefire, Ukraine says not at cost of independence
German chancellor Angela Merkel has called for Ukraine and Russia to agree to a ceasefire during her first visit to Ukraine since fighting erupted early this year. Ms Merkel pressed Moscow to engage on a peace plan with Kiev and said success was not possible if only one side was interested in a diplomatic solution.”There must be two sides...
Merkel jets into Kiev as tensions soar over Ukraine (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived in Kiev Saturday for crisis talks with Ukraine’s pro-Western leaders, as a controversial aid convoy from Moscow began crossing back from the war-torn east of the country to Russia. …read more Source: The West...
Anger in West as Russian aid convoy enters Ukraine
The West has rebuked Russia for sending scores of trucks from a controversial aid convoy to east Ukraine’s rebel-held Luhansk in a move Kiev decried as an “invasion.” …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Artillery fire ‘kills two civilians’ in Donetsk (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Two civilians were killed Saturday apparently by artillery fire in Donetsk, the main separatist stronghold in eastern Ukraine, an AFP reporter witnessed. …read more Source: The West...
