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...
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...
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...
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...
Russian convoy retreats amid condemnation of ‘dangerous escalation’
The first trucks from Moscow’s controversial aid convoy to rebel-held parts of Ukraine have begun returning to Russia, monitors from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe say.Paul Picard, the acting head of the mission observing the Russian border post known as Donetsk, said some of the vehicles had begun passing through...
