Eastern ukraine
Zelensky: two months as Ukraine's most unusual president
The 41-year-old has played a twofold game, underlining that he is a man of the people while attacking the traditional political class that he has denounced as...
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Pompeo ups pressure on Russia over four MH17 accused
The trial of the four men with military and intelligence links will start in the Netherlands in March next year.
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Ukraine to inaugurate comedian Zelensky as president
A month after scoring a landslide victory against incumbent Petro Poroshenko in polls, the 41-year-old becomes Ukraine's youngest post-Soviet president.
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Putin defends 'lawful' seizure of Ukrainian ships
In his first extensive remarks since the confrontation at sea on Sunday, Putin said it had been orchestrated by Kiev as a "provocation".
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Russia seizes three Ukrainian naval ships off Crimea
The confrontation at sea is a dangerous development in the long-running conflict pitting Ukraine against Russia and Russian-backed rebels in the east of the country.
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UN Security Council calls emergency meeting over Ukraine: Haley
The meeting was requested by both Russia and Ukraine, diplomatic sources told AFP.
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Teenager kills 19 in Crimea college shooting: Russian officials
There were no immediate clues as to his motive in mounting such an attack, which recalled similar shooting sprees carried out by students in US schools.
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Journalist who faked death: I didn't want to share Skripal's fate
Ukrainian officials said on Tuesday night that Babchenko, a Kremlin critic, had been gunned down in his apartment building in Kiev.
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Prominent Russian journalist who criticised Kremlin shot dead in Kiev
Arkady Babchenko, 41, died of his wounds in an ambulance after his wife found him covered in his blood in their home, police said.
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Kiev subway resumes operation after bomb warning false alarm
Earlier on Saturday, the subway closed its five stations after it received a warning call.
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Fighting in eastern Ukraine worst since February: OSCE
In February, a surge of violence around the government-held industrial town of Avdiivka cut off power and water to thousands of civilians on the front line.
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Bodyguard killed, MP and two others wounded in Kiev blast
Kiev police spokeswoman Oksana Blyshchyk said that at 1905 GMT authorities had received information about a car explosion in the Solomensky district of Kiev.
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Russia seeks to reassure over war games, denies invasion plans
Russian Deputy Defence Minister Alexander Fomin told Western military attaches in Moscow on Tuesday the West had nothing to fear.
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Ukraine denies selling missile technology to North Korea
State-owned Yuzhmash said it had not produced military-grade ballistic missiles since independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
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American member of watchdog OSCE killed in Ukraine
The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe said the killing was the first death of one of its members while on patrol in Ukraine.
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Saboteurs blew up arms warehouse - Ukraine military
More than 10,000 people have been killed in the conflict between Ukraine and the separatist rebels since 2014.
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Kremlin: Putin, Merkel call for immediate truce in east Ukraine
Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Germany’s Angela Merkel called for the immediate restoration of a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine.
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Ukraine, separatists say more civilians killed in eastern flare-up
The reports follow a short lull in fighting in the wake of the deadliest clashes in recent months that have brought global attention.
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Putin accuses Kiev of provoking flare-up in east Ukraine fighting
Russian President Vladimir Putin says it was a ploy to win the support of the administration of US President Trump.
