Russia And Ukraine Conflict

This photo taken on July 26, 2014 shows flowers, left by parents of an Australian victim of the crash, laid on a piece of the Malaysia Airlines plane MH17, near the village of Hrabove (Grabovo), in the Donetsk region. Ukraine sought on July 25 to avoid a political crisis after the shock resignation of its prime minister, as fighting between the army and rebels close to the Malaysian airliner crash site claimed over a dozen more lives. Dutch and Australian forces were being readied on July 26 for possible deployment to secure the rebel-held crash site of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in east Ukraine where many victims' remains still lie nine days after the disaster claimed 298 lives. AFP PHOTO/ BULENT KILIC

Abbott, Putin discuss Ukraine plan

THE two leaders held a telephone conversation to discuss organising an independent international probe into the downing of MH17.

Greg Sheridan

Abbott accrues diplomatic capital

GLOBAL leaders are looking at Australia differently in the wake of flight MH17.

Greg Sheridan

Paul Kelly

Purer view of character on display

THE authentic Tony Abbott has been revealed through his responses to the Ukraine tragedy.

Paul Kelly and Editor at Large

Greg Sheridan

Putin’s interest in dragging matters out

RUSSIA’S strongman Vladimir Putin has behaved brutally and cynically but with considerable tactical flexibility in Ukraine.

Greg Sheridan and comment

MH17

Retired Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston looks on as one of four bodies are carried during a ramp ceremony at Kharkiv Aiport, Kharkiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, July 23. The bodies are being flown to the Netherlands after being recovered from the crash site of Malaysian Airlines flight MH-17 in eastern Ukraine. (AAP Image/Dave Hunt) NO ARCHIVING

AFP force may secure site

UP to 100 Australian Federal Police officers and military personnel could be sent to help secure the MH17 crash site in Ukraine.

BRENDAN NICHOLSON and Jacquelin Magnay

MH17

22 July 2014. DONETSK, UKRAINE. Valentina Kozlovaâ€™s world was already grey but now she will have to live in darkness as she has no money to repair all the windows of her home unit that were shattered when a mortar landed outside. But that is the least of 76-year-old great grandmother's problems - her grandson Vlad was outside at the time. Pic Ella Pellegrini

Massing of troops will stop access

AIR-CRASH investigators will be unlikely to gain safe and extended access to the site of the downed MH17.

CHARLES MIRANDA in DONETSK

Opinion

Crimea's Russia-backed leader Sergei Aksyonov gestures as people celebrate in Lenin Square, in downtown Simferopol, Ukraine, Sunday, March 16, 2014. Polls have closed in Crimea's contentious referendum on seceding from Ukraine and seeking annexation by Russia. The vote, unrecognized both by the Ukrainian government and the West, was held Sunday as Russian flags fluttered in the breeze and retirees grew weepy at the thought of reuniting with Russia. (AP Photo/Max Vetrov)

Imperialist ideologue driving Putin

ALEKSANDR Dugin pushes a grisly line in propaganda.

Mervyn F Bendle

MH17

A pro-Russian fighter walks past a piece of the crashed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine Monday, July 21, 2014. Four days after Flight 17 was shot out of the sky, international investigators still have had only limited access to the crash site, hindered by pro-Russia fighters who control the verdant territory in eastern Ukraine. Outrage over the delays and the possible tampering of evidence at the site was building worldwide, especially in the Netherlands, where most of the victims were from. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

‘Industrial scale evidence tampering’

A MULTINATIONAL security force including Australians could be deployed to Ukraine to protect MH17 debris, Tony Abbott says.

JARED OWENS

MH17

Russia will back UN resolution

RUSSIA declared last night it would support an Australian-led UN Security Council resolution giving international backing to an MH17 investigation.

BRENDAN NICHOLSON

Phillip Hudson

Abbott and Shorten pass worst of tests

THE murder of so many puts the focus on what matters.

PHILLIP HUDSON

MH17

A Malaysia Airlines employee sits behind a closed ticket counter at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang on July 20, 2014. Malaysia Airlines said it would offer full refunds to customers who want to cancel their tickets in the wake of the MH17 disaster, just months after the carrier suffered another blow when flight MH370 dissapeared. AFP PHOTO/ MANAN VATSYAYANA

$66 each was enough to miss Ukraine

IT would have cost Malaysia Airlines about $66 per passenger to divert around the Ukrainian airspace where it was shot down, sources say.

Steve Creedy

MH17

TOPSHOTS Ukrainian rescue workers carry the body of a victim on a stretcher through a wheat field at the site of the crash of a Malaysia Airlines plane carrying 298 people from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur in Grabove, in rebel-held east Ukraine, on July 19, 2014. Ukraine and pro-Russian insurgents agreed on July 19 to set up a security zone around the crash site of a Malaysian jet whose downing in the rebel-held east has drawn global condemnation of the Kremlin. Outraged world leaders have demanded Russia's immediate cooperation in a prompt and independent probe into the shooting down on July 17 of flight MH17 with 298 people on board. AFP PHOTO / DOMINIQUE FAGET

Australian death toll up to 37

THE number of passengers on Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 who were Australian citizens and permanent residents has been revised up to 37.

STEFANIE BALOGH

MH17

TOPSHOTS A group of Ukrainian miners assist rescue workers in the search for bodies of victims in a wheat field at the site of the crash of a Malaysian airliner carrying 298 people from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur in Grabove, in rebel-held east Ukraine, on July 18, 2014. Pro-Russian separatists in the region and officials in Kiev blamed each other for the crash, after the plane was apparently hit by a surface-to-air missile. Members of the UN Security Council demanded a full, independent investigation into the apparent shooting down of a Malaysia Airlines jet over Ukraine. AFP PHOTO / DOMINIQUE FAGET

Australia presses Moscow on MH17 probe

TRADE Minister Andrew Robb has raised MH17 with his Russian counterpart, while Queensland’s Premier says Vladimir Putin may not be welcome for the G20.

SID MAHER

MH17

A crime against humanity

THE nation has been plunged into mourning over the deaths of 28 Australians on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.

Jamie Walker

MH17

Son of missing Brisbane couple Rodney and Mary Burrows, Jayden Burrows, and Rodney's sister Kaylene Mann during a press conference at Police Headquarters this afternoon. Pics Tim Marsden

Family struck twice by lightning

AN Australian whose brother and sister-in-law vanished on doomed MH370 is now mourning two more relatives.

SARAH ELKS AND RICK WALLACE

Aviation

‘A grim day for Australia’

A MELBOURNE real estate agent and his wife, and a popular Perth sailor and his grandchildren are among the Australian victims of flight MH17.

Patricia Karvelas and Sarah Elks

MH17

A firefighter stands as flames burst amongst the wreckages of the malaysian airliner carrying 298 people from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur after it crashed, near the town of Shaktarsk, in rebel-held east Ukraine, on July 17, 2014. There were 298 people, including 154 Dutch nationals, on board the Malaysia Airlines flight that crashed in strife-torn eastern Ukraine on Thursday, an official from the carrier said. AFP PHOTO/DOMINIQUE FAGET (Photo credit should read DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty Images)

28 Aussies die in downed jet

TWENTY-EIGHT Australians were on a Malaysia Airlines plane apparently shot down by a missile fired by pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine, killing all 298 on board.

Jacquelin Magnay

The Weekend Australian Magazine

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Is Man a Van?

IT’S a mystery that’s baffling the art world. Is the National Gallery of Victoria’s famous painting ‘Head of a Man’ a van Gogh, or not?

Michaela Boland

Foreign Affairs

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper speak at a press conference at Parliament Hill in Ottowa, Canada. Picture: Jake Nowakowski

G20 ‘not the forum’ to punish Russia

RUSSIA appears set to escape any action by the Group of 20 club of major economies to punish it over its incursions into Ukraine.

David Crowe in Ottawa

Foreign Affairs

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott talks to reporters standing in front of a Kangaroo armored personnel carrier at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, Sunday, June 8, 2014. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Fred Chartrand)

PM demands end to Russian ‘bullying’

TONY Abbott has sharpened his criticism of Vladimir Putin to support a blistering attack on the Russian president by Canada’s PM.

David Crowe in Ottawa

The World

Russian President Vladimir Putin leaves the Elysee Palace in Paris, after meeting with French President Francois Hollande, Thursday, June 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)

Room for Putin, says Abbott

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin is expected to attend the Group of 20 summit in Australia in November despite the tensions with the West.

DAVID CROWE

The World

In this image made from video received by The Associated Press on Monday, May 5, 2014, Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Nigeria's Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, speaks in a video in which his group claimed responsibility for the April 15 mass abduction of nearly 300 teenage schoolgirls in northeast Nigeria. Shekau threatened to sell the nearly 300 teenage schoolgirls abducted from a school in the remote northeast three weeks ago, in a new videotape received Monday. It was unclear if the video was made before or after reports emerged last week that some of the girls have been forced to marry their abductors — who paid a nominal bride price of $12 — and that others have been carried into neighboring Cameroon and Chad. Those reports could not be verified. (AP Photo)

Indignation should turn to kidnappers

AUSTRALIAN capital city streets will this week echo to protesters chanting their detestation of Russia’s relentless takeover of Ukraine.

Rowan Callick

The Times Sport

Mercedes AMG Petronas driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain drives on the back straight before winning the Formula One Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai on April 20, 2014. AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON

Ukraine crisis may spell end for GP

FORMULA ONE could be forced to abandon the inaugural Russian Grand Prix as tensions continue to tighten between Moscow and Ukraine.

Kevin Eason

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