Section: Australia&NZ
Ukrainian border officials inspect Russian aid convoy
Ukraine says its border guards and customs officials have begun inspecting a Russian humanitarian aid convoy bound for eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: ABC...
Tokyo investors eye Fed chief speech next week (AFP)
Tokyo (AFP) – Tokyo investors will focus on a speech by US Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen next week as investor concerns about crises in the Ukraine and Iraq start to ease, brokers said. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine says dozens of its border officials in Russia to inspect aid convoy with Red Cross
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) Ukraine says dozens of its border officials in Russia to inspect aid convoy with Red Cross. …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Russian armoured vehicles near Ukraine border (AFP)
KAMENSK-SHAKHTINSKY (Russia) (AFP) – Russian armoured vehicles were moving Friday towards the Ukrainian border, AFP journalists said, after British media reports that a small group had crossed into Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
11 civilians killed by shelling in rebel-held Donetsk (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Shelling killed 11 civilians and wounded eight more over the past 24 hours in the besieged rebel stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, local authorities said Friday. …read more Source: The West...
What’s in the white trucks, Russia?
A CONVOY of more than 200 trucks is making its way to eastern Ukraine. Russia says it’s aid, but the West is convinced they’re hiding something. …read more Source:...
12 Russian armored vehicles join aid convoy
KAMENSK-SHAKHTINSKY, Russia (AP) A dozen Russian armored personnel carriers have appeared near a large aid convoy that is parked near the Ukrainian border and poised to cross into rebel-held territory.Ukraine has expressed fears… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Rebel forces unravel as Ukraine military cuts off key stronghold (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine have suffered dramatic setbacks after top military chiefs quit and Kiev’s forces pummelled their strongholds, cutting off a key rebel-held city from the Russian border. …read more Source: The West...
US warns Russia over Ukraine convoy
RAISING the stakes in Ukraine’s conflict, a Russian aid convoy of more than 200 trucks pushed up to the border but then stopped. …read more Source: THE...
Is Putin changing tack on Ukraine?
IN a surprising change in tone, President Vladimir Putin has said Russia would do everything in its power to halt the bloody conflict in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
