Section: Australia&NZ
Poland puts on biggest military parade in years
WARSAW, Poland (AP) Poland is putting on its biggest military parade in years to mark its Armed Forces Day, with the president saying violence in Ukraine shows that conflict is still a “brutal reality” in Eastern Europe.Fighter… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Armoured vehicles cross from Russia into Ukraine
A column of armoured vehicles and military trucks crossed the border from Russia into Ukraine on Thursday, in the first confirmed sighting of such an incident by Western journalists. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Separatist leader ‘Igor the Terrible’ resigns
Igor Strelkov, one of the leading separatist military leaders in eastern Ukraine has resigned, the separatists’ self-proclaimed Donetsk Republic said on its website. …read more Source: ABC...
