Ukraine
DONETSK, Ukraine – Alexander Borodai, the self-proclaimed prime minister of the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic, claims that six separatist fighters were killed in the early morning hours on M
May. 31, 2014
A Ukrainian soldier injured during the attack of National Guard’s
military unit in Luhansk, Dmytro Shelemin, has died in hospital,
spokeswoman of the Main Directorate of Ukraine’s Interior Ministry in
May. 30, 2014
DONETSK, Ukraine – It’s no longer about amateurs. There is a full-scale war going on, and it’s fought by professionals. The Russians are here – and they’re making a grab for power in eastern Ukraine.
May. 30, 2014
DNIPROPETROVSK – The “Donbas” special operations battalion of Ukraine’s National Guard is officially mobilizing men aged 18 to 55 years old, a battalion spokesman told reporters.
May. 30, 2014
DONETSK – The bodies of 34 Russian rebels who have been killed fighting on the side of the Donetsk militants at Donetsk airport were sent off to Russia on May 29, said the prime minister of the unilat
May. 30, 2014
Militants have shot down an Mi-8 helicopter of the National Guard of Ukraine near the town of Sloviansk, and as a result, 12 Ukrainian security officers were killed, the Web site of the National Guar
May. 29, 2014
Mykolaiv City Electoral Commission has announced that Yuriy
Hranaturov, who previously was city’s acting mayor, won the recent
mayoral elections.
May. 28, 2014
At an unknown campaign stop before the presidential election, now President-elect Petro Poroshenko promised to make strengthening the Ukrainian army his top priority. Porohsenko said he could attract
May. 28, 2014
DONETSK, Ukraine – A trip on May 27 to the morgue in Donetsk, the capital of Ukraine’s most populous oblast, confirms that the war against Kremlin-backed insurgents – the government would say terroris
May. 27, 2014
BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke to Ukraine’s president-elect Petro Poroshenko by telephone on May 27, her office said, and offered congratulations on election.
May. 27, 2014
he following is an investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), which is based in Washington, D.C., a Kyiv Post partner.
May. 27, 2014
Ukrainian border guards at 3:40 a.m. on
May 27 captured a van and two passenger cars filled with an assortment of arms that
illegally crossed into Luhansk Oblast from Russia and which was part of a la
May. 27, 2014
Vitaly Klitschko, a former world heavyweight boxing champion, has claimed victory in an election to become mayor of Kyiv, clinching a major role in Ukraine’s emerging new political order after preside
May. 27, 2014
Refugee families from Donetsk and Luhansk regions where the
counter-terrorist operation against separatists and foreign mercenaries
is currently under way are arriving in Poltava region, Director of
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May. 26, 2014
Editor’s Note: Ukrainians went to the polls on May 25 and elected Petro Poroshenko, a billionaire businessman, independent member of parliament, a former economic and foreign minister.
May. 26, 2014
With most votes counted, presumptive President-elect Petro Porshenko gave his first post-election press conference on May 26 — with Kyiv Mayor-elect Vitali Klitschko at his side — and talked about the
May. 26, 2014