Section: Australia&NZ
New Ukraine Defence Minister promises to regain Crimea
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has shaken up his country’s beleaguered forces with new appointments to head the Defence Ministry, the general staff and a military advisory office in his presidential administration. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Ukraine shakes up top brass in new bid to crush rebels (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukraine shook up its beleaguered army’s top brass on Thursday as clashes raged in the separatist east despite mounting US and German pressure on Russia to force the rebels to halt fire. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine shakes up beleaguered top brass amid clashes (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukraine shook up its beleaguered army’s top brass on Thursday as clashes raged in the separatist east despite international efforts to arrange a new truce that could also calm flaring East-West tensions. …read more Source: The West...
Fighting in east Ukraine despite push for truce talks (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Fighting rumbled on in east Ukraine Thursday between government troops and pro-Russian rebels despite a fresh push for ceasefire talks from international envoys. …read more Source: The West...
Russia and Ukraine ‘committed to ceasefire’
The foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine have agreed to hold three-way talks involving pro-Moscow rebels to pave the way for a new ceasefire, despite continued fighting that Kiev says has now killed 200 of its troops. …read more Source: ABC...
Ukraine army takes control of shattered border post (AFP)
Dolzhansky (Ukraine) (AFP) – Crouching behind sandbags next to the bombed out remains of a roadside cafe that once catered for truck drivers and tourists, Ukrainian troops guarded the Dolzhansky border post with Russia on Wednesday. …read more Source: The West...
Top envoys urge new Ukraine truce talks as battles rage (AFP)
Berlin (AFP) – Russia and Ukraine’s foreign ministers agreed in Berlin on Wednesday that new ceasefire talks should be held this week, as government forces battled pro-Moscow insurgents in the ex-Soviet state. …read more Source: The West...
Top diplomats urge new Ukraine truce talks by July 5 (AFP)
Berlin (AFP) – The foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France agreed Wednesday that fresh ceasefire talks involving the OSCE should start no later than Saturday on crisis-torn Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
Berlin crisis talks as Ukraine forces battle pro-Moscow rebels (AFP)
Berlin (AFP) – Top European diplomats were holding crisis talks in Berlin Wednesday as fighting raged in eastern Ukraine, where government troops backed by tanks and fighter bombers clashed with pro-Russian separatists. …read more Source: The West...
