Aug. 29, 2014
Ukraine is on its way to shed its non-aligned status and will move towards applying for NATO membership, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk announced on Aug. 29. His Cabinet gave preliminary approval to
Aug. 29, 2014
10 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and 30 wounded in fighting with pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine in the past 24 hours, Kiev’s security and defense council said on Aug. 29.
Aug. 29, 2014
MARIUPOL, Ukraine — After a public handshake between Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Minsk on Aug. 26, hopes for peace have vanished as Ukraine and its all
Aug. 27, 2014
Dnipro-1 battalion commander Vladimir Shilov called Ukraine’s military leaders at best incompetent and, at worst, betrayers of their soldiers on the front lines in Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Aug. 26, 2014
Russian soldiers captured by Ukrainian forces entered Ukraine by mistake, a Defense Ministry source has <a href="http://ria.ru/defense_safety/20140826/1021446691.html%5D">told</a> Russian state news a
Aug. 24, 2014
DNIPROPETROVSK, Ukraine — When the Donbas Battalion stormed Russian separatist-held Ilovaisk on Aug. 18 and raised the Ukrainian flag without a single casualty, the Ukrainian media quickly reported a
Aug. 23, 2014
German Chancellor Angela Merker offered Ukraine 500 million euros in help to rebuild destruction from a Russian-backed war in Ukraine’s east, while President Petro Poroshenko promised her to fulfill h
Kyiv
Aug. 22, 2014
When Ukrainian artists and designers from the Varto group called on the international art community some five months ago, asking them to support Ukraine in hard times, the community responded vigorous
Aug. 22, 2014
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, in an interview with several TV journalists, said “it’s clear that Russia is not planning to conduct any humanitarian mission” with a 280-truck convoy that has entere
Aug. 22, 2014
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has warned that separatists are shelling a possible route that a Russian humanitarian convoy could take to Luhansk.
Aug. 21, 2014
Ukraine received new evidence of Russian soldiers fighting on its territory when the army captured two armored personnel carriers on Aug. 20, which carried many valuable – and incriminating – document
Aug. 17, 2014
MUNICH — The grave of Stepan Bandera, a leader of Ukrainian fighters who fought both Nazi and Soviet forces during World War Two and after, was vandalized in a German cemetery overnight, police said o
Aug. 16, 2014
SNIZHNE, Ukraine – The rebel leader in Donetsk has said a column of military hardware is on its way to eastern Ukraine from Russia. Meanwhile, his fighters appeared to bolster their positions on the f
Aug. 15, 2014
Massive damage to infrastructure due to warfare in eastern Ukraine is already hitting the local economy hard, and will continue to do so for years to come due to costly and lengthy repairs required.
People
Aug. 15, 2014
This year’s
closing ceremony of Wikimania, an annual conference of the Wikimedia
Foundation, revealed a Wikipedian of 2014. Established in 2011, this prize
has already been awarded four times to Kazak
People
Aug. 14, 2014
A handful of elderly ladies comb an outdoor market in Obolon, and they’re on a military mission. This northern Kyiv neighborhood is where they collect donations of food and clothes and once a week sen
Aug. 14, 2014
Intense fighting in eastern Ukraine has forced coal mines to cut production or close entirely, imperilling the country’s electricity market and potentially forcing the government to cut exports or lim
Aug. 13, 2014
A video released through the Youtube account the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic confirms reports of the deaths of several activists of the Ukrainian nationalistic Right Sector on Aug. 12.
Aug. 12, 2014
Ukraine’s government is infiltrated with Russian spies, it shelters a small army of corrupt officials and thousands of brutal thugs in its police force, defense ministry and other agencies, according
Aug. 11, 2014
DONETSK,
Ukraine – Ukraine and the International Committee of the Red Cross will lead a humanitarian convoy supported by the European Union, the United States and Russia to the country’s conflict-torn