Dec. 11, 2014
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s ambitious reform program to attack corruption and stifling Soviet-era bureaucracy won quick approval in parliament on Dec. 11, with 269 members of parliament — meani
Nov. 12, 2014
Pro-separatist leaders of civil society organizations in the Donbas region have accused Ukraine of “declaring war” on its own people and turning them into “beggars” after the Ukrainian government anno
Sep. 19, 2014
Mr. Speaker,
Majority Leader,
Members of the House, Members of the Senate
Aug. 26, 2014
Ukraine’s Communist Party on Aug. 25 vehemently denied allegations by the Security Service (SBU) chief that Communist activists have been involved in financing terrorism.
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. 8, 2014
Ukraine’s government has picked 172 individuals and 65 companies that will face sanctions for “support and financing of terrorism” or responsible for crimes on country’s territory, Prime Minister Ars
Jul. 24, 2014
Russian military aggression towards Ukraine has persisted unabated since Kremlin-backed guerillas shot down a commercial airliner on July 17, killing all 298 people on board, including more than 80 ch
Jul. 21, 2014
Russian troops are not only refusing to draw back from their positions along the border with Ukraine but their numbers continue to grow, Andriy Lysenko, spokesman for Ukraine’s National Security
Jul. 18, 2014
Editor’s Note: The following is an English-language transcript of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko after a surface-to-air missile fired from Russian-backed insurgent territory in Donetsk Oblast s
Jul. 18, 2014
Members of
illegal armed units have not seized air defense launchers of the
Ukrainian Armed Forces in Donetsk, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Vitaliy
Yarema said.
Jun. 7, 2014
Editor’s Note: The following is the English-language translation of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s <a href="http://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/30488.html">inaugural address</a> on June 7 in
Jun. 5, 2014
The Ukrainian government appears to be moving swiftly to impose martial law in its restive eastern regions after heavily armed separatists seized control of two bases and a border crossing in Luhansk
Jun. 3, 2014
Intense clashes between Ukrainian military forces and pro-Russia insurgents raged in the eastern region of Donetsk on June 3, killing at least two Ukrainian troops and injuring dozens a day after heav
Jun. 2, 2014
Five Russian-backed separatists were killed, and eight wounded as of 11 a.m. amid ongoing fighting at the Border Guard Service coordination center in Luhansk Oblast after it was assaulted around 12:30
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. 14, 2014
DNIPROPETROVSK OBLAST, Ukraine – On any other day, this summer camp called “Friendship” might be a serene setting for school kids on vacation from drab classrooms and teachers’ instructions.
May. 13, 2014
DONETSK, Ukraine — Armed pro-Russian rebels ambushed a Ukrainian military convoy transporting ammunition on the outskirts of the flashpoint city of Kramatorsk around 1 p.m. on May 13, killing seven pa
May. 12, 2014
Self-proclaimed “People’s Governor” of Donetsk Pavel Gubarev said that Ukraine’s richest man, Rinat Akhmetov, of financing separatism in eastern Ukraine in a May 12 interview with Russian state-contr
May. 11, 2014
Editor’s Note: Pro-Russian separatists on May 11 are holding their referendums on whether Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts should declare independence from Ukraine. The same type of illegal voting took on