Apr. 15, 2014
Interim President Oleksandr Turchynov ‘s 9 a.m. deadline for pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine to lay down their arms has passed without Ukrainian launching any military action. Turchynov had
Apr. 14, 2014
DONETSK, Ukraine — Amid reports of casualties on both sides as Ukrainian forces battle pro-Russian militias in Sloviansk, other heavily armed separatists in military uniforms continued to seize or att
Apr. 13, 2014
Ukrainian officials say that Russia coordinated the takeovers of several Donetsk Oblast government buildings seized over the weaken by heavily armed and masked men in military uniforms.
Apr. 12, 2014
LUHANSK, Ukraine — Dozens of pro-Russian armed men holding the Security Service of Ukraine headquarters don’t put down their Kalashnikovs, even in the dining room. Since April 6, when the gunmen seiz
Apr. 10, 2014
Editor’s Note: This is an investigation conducted by the Washington, D.C.-based Organized Crime; Corruption Reporting Project, a Kyiv Post partner.
Apr. 9, 2014
The Security Service of Ukraine said that it has today negotiated the release of 56 unarmed people from the state agency’s headquarters, but that talks continue with armed pro-Russian separatists hold
Apr. 8, 2014
Early this morning, Ukrainian police stormed Kharkiv Oblast’s government center and retook control of the building from pro-Russian separatists that were holding it. About 70 suspects in the takeover
Mar. 15, 2014
SIMFEROPOL, Crimea — Several Russian military helicopters landed on March 15 in southern Kherson Oblast near Kremlin-occupied Crimea, bringing dozens of commandoes and seizing a natural gas plant.
Mar. 11, 2014
Ukraine’s Security Service detained a Russian saboteur in Donetsk Oblast on March 10, said SBU Chief Valentyn Nalyvaichenko. The suspect is accused of preparing explosions and orchestrating other acts
Mar. 4, 2014
Ukrainian
frigate Hetman Sahaidachny is expected to pass through the Bosporus Strait this
evening en route to its home base in Sevastopol, said Hryhoriy Boiko, Ukraine’s
consul in Istanbul cited by TV
Mar. 2, 2014
On the pretext of saving Russian lives, President Vladimir Putin invaded Crimea with soldiers and then ratified possibly wider use of military force in Ukraine with a unanimous vote of his rubber-stam
Feb. 28, 2014
Two Crimean airports were taken over by Russian military troops, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said on Facebook this morning. He said the situation in the autonomous republic has now escalated to “a
Feb. 26, 2014
Checkpoints were put up at all entrances to Sevastopol last night and
the borders to the city are guarded by groups of people, police units,
and traffic police.
Feb. 25, 2014
On Feb. 24, parliament passed a bill to free 23 political
prisoners. Eight are members of far-right groups believed to have been
persecuted for their political beliefs. Five were anti-drug trafficking
Feb. 25, 2014
Viktor Yanukovych remained missing on Feb. 25, four years to the day after he was inaugurated as Ukraine’s fourth president and one day after Ukraine’s current authorities issued an arrest warrant
Feb. 24, 2014
The top law enforcement official for Viktor Yanukovych, the disgraced former Ukrainian president who is now a fugitive fleeing mass murder charges, had planned an even greater bloodbath.
Feb. 20, 2014
Acting Ukrainian Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko announces
that combat weapons have been provided to the law enforcement members,
which will be used in line with the law on police.
Feb. 20, 2014
Editor’s Note: Police launched a raid on Independence Square at 8 p.m. on Feb. 18 .The Feb. 18-19 clashes killed at least 26 persons, including 10 police officers, and injured more than 1,000 people.
Feb. 19, 2014
Ukraine’s authorities admitted on Feb. 19 that massive stocks of arms were stolen from regional police and Security Service of Ukraine headquarters, and suggested that those weapons were being transp
Jan. 28, 2014
President Viktor Yanukovych has accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, according to the president’s official website. Azarov’s government will continue working until the new prime m