Ukraine
Billionaire and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Governor Ihor Kolomoisky has sparked a major scandal.
Mar. 20, 2015
DONETSK, Ukraine – Ryzhik, Gaika and Dasha are three friends who, until recently, dressed like other young women. Now they no longer choose their clothes: They just don military uniforms, pick up thei
Mar. 20, 2015
Russian President Vladimir Putin takes full credit for what is happening in Crimea. He is proud of personally planning and overseeing the annexation of Ukraine’s peninsula a year ago. Moreover, he is
Mar. 16, 2015
Ukrainian Member of Parliament from Petro Poroshenko Bloc party
Alexey Goncharenko has been detained by Russian authorities in Moscow at
the peace rally in tribute to Boris Nemtsov – a fierce Kremlin
Mar. 1, 2015
Mykhailo Chechetov, former deputy head of the Party of Regions parliament faction in the time of the president Viktor Yanukovych, killed himself jumping out of the window of his apartment at 17 floor
Feb. 28, 2015
Editor’s Note: This is an English-language translation done by the Kyiv Post of a leaked analytical note published by the Russian online newspaper Novaya Gazeta on Feb. 24. According to sources of Nov
Feb. 25, 2015
MARIUPOL, Ukraine — Despite the Minsk II cease-fire agreement, which was supposed to take effect on Feb. 15, shelling from the Russian side has continued along the Mariupol front and Ukraine’s militar
Feb. 23, 2015
President of Russia Vladimir Putin arrogantly scoffed at the defeat of the Ukrainian military in Debaltseve, gloating at their “shame” of losing the battle “to yesterday’s coal miners and tractor driv
Feb. 21, 2015
The Ukrainian Cabinet has closed 23 checkpoints on the country’s border with Russia.
Feb. 21, 2015
ARTEMIVSK, Ukraine – Less than 24 hours after breaking out of the encirclement in Debaltseve on top of a tank, junior lieutenant Taras Savchuk was digging trenches at the new front line some 46 kilome
Feb. 20, 2015
LUHANSKE, Ukraine – An endless line of Ukrainian soldiers stretched out along the road approaching Artemivsk, the closest city to Debaltseve, in Donetsk Oblast. Some of them were walking, others sat a
Feb. 18, 2015
Editor’s Note: The following is the transcript and video of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s Feb. 18 statement on the retreat of Ukrainian forces from Debaltseve in Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast.
Feb. 18, 2015
MOSCOW – Oleksandr Zakharchenko, the leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk people’s republic, has suffered a slight wound to his foot in Debaltseve, a Donetsk people’s republic military source told In
Feb. 17, 2015
A two-day-old truce in Ukraine was under threat on Feb. 16 as fighting raged around a strategic railway hub and other violations were reported, jeopardising an agreement to start withdrawing heavy wea
Feb. 16, 2015
The non-governmental organization Defense of Mariupol has said that an attack on Ukrainian army positions in Shyrokyne has killed five servicemen and injured 22.
Feb. 16, 2015
DONETSK, Ukraine — It took just hours for Ukraine and the Russian-backed separatists to accuse one another of violating the cease-fire that came into effect at 12 a.m. on Feb. 15. From the city center
Feb. 15, 2015