Section: Australia&NZ
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...
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...
Kiev, West slam Russian aid convoy to east Ukraine (AFP)
Izvaryne (Ukraine) (AFP) – The West rebuked Russia for sending scores of trucks Friday from a controversial aid convoy to east Ukraine’s rebel-held Lugansk in a move Kiev decried as an “invasion.” …read more Source: The West...
No surrender: Ukraine rebels confident despite losses (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukrainian forces may be pummelling them daily and key leaders might have just quit but defiant pro-Russian rebels say any talk of them being on the back foot is just crude propaganda from Kiev. …read more Source: The West...
Russia firing artillery within Ukraine, NATO reports
The conflict between Russia and Ukraine hit dangerous new heights Friday as Russia sent an enormous aid convoy into rebel-held Ukrainian territory without the permission of the Kiev government, a move that a top Ukrainian security… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Obama and Merkel voice alarm at Russian moves
EDGARTOWN, Massachusetts (AP) President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel say the presence of Russian soldiers in Ukraine, the buildup of Russian troops along the Ukrainian border and Russian shelling into Ukraine… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Russian trucks arrive at rebel stronghold in eastern Ukraine
Russian trucks have begun arriving in the rebel bastion of Luhansk, in Ukraine’s east, according to local officials, in what Kiev has called a “direct invasion”. …read more Source: ABC...
Merkel slams Russia over Ukraine convoy
BERLIN (AP) German Chancellor Angela Merkel has accused Russia of risking a further escalation of the conflict in eastern Ukraine by sending an aid convoy into the region without Kiev’s permission.Merkel’s office says she called… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
NATO says Russian convoy move ‘only deepens crisis’ (AFP)
Brussels (AFP) – NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen sharply criticised the Russian decision to advance a “so-called” aid convoy into Ukraine on Friday as a “blatant breach” of international commitments that “only deepens the crisis”. …read more Source: The West...
