The foreign minister’s failure to say more about the world’s most serious conflict is symptomatic of the way Ukraine has slipped down the list of Australia’s priorities.
Richard Marles would be the first government minister to visit Ukraine since Anthony Albanese travelled to Kyiv in July 2022 and met with President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The group,including former prime ministers,business,union and military leaders,wants Australia to divert the billions it has confiscated since the invasion of Ukraine.
Volodymyr Zelensky has signed into law three measures aimed at replenishing the ranks of his country’s exhausted and battered army.
Simon Shuster’s biography of the Ukrainian president is informed by the time he spent covering his story long before the Russian invasion.
Bureaucrats who decide budgets may think we do not have skin in the game. We do. Just like Britain did when Nazi Germany coveted Czechoslovakia.
The hidden toll of the war on Ukraine’s children is clear as air raid sirens fail to deter the 15 or so girls and boys in a basement classroom.
If the Russian president follows up by directly blaming Kyiv for staging the concert hall attack,he may use it as justification for even fiercer strikes.
Even as the war-torn nation defends its homeland against the Russian invasion,it is delivering major shipments to vulnerable populations.
The sound of a large explosion reverberated around the port city as the Ukrainian president and the Greek prime minister ended a tour of the war-ravaged city.
There are fears of further Russian aggression on its eastern flank,but NATO’s preparedness remains in question.