Feb. 20, 2014
Crimean Parliament Speaker Volodymyr Konstantynov has not ruled out
the possibility that the autonomous republic may secede from Ukraine if
tensions escalate further in the country.
Feb. 19, 2014
Ukrainian Olympic
alpine skier Bohdana Matsotska and her father posted a message on Facebook stating
that they no longer will represent their nation’s team in the Sochi Winter
Games over the bloody ev
Feb. 19, 2014
As Ukraine’s KGB-successor agency announced the start of a nationwide “anti-terrorist” operation in
coordination with other law enforcement and defense bodies
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
Feb. 19, 2014
Editor’s Note: Police launched a raid on Independence Square at 8 p.m. on Feb. 18. See Kyiv Post coverage of daytime clashes today between police and protesters that killed at least 25 persons.
Feb. 19, 2014
Open warfare broke out on the streets of Kyiv today, with at least 25 persons reportedly killed and more than 1,000 people injured. It was a day of non-stop bloodletting, smoke, fire.
Feb. 18, 2014
The presidium of the Supreme Council of Crimea believes a civil war
has in fact begun in Ukraine and calls on President Viktor Yanukovych to
take extraordinary measures to preserve the foundations of
Feb. 14, 2014
The Council of Maidan all-Ukrainian Association has declared it is ready to comply with some requirements of the amnesty law after the release of all detained activists.
Kyiv
Feb. 13, 2014
Two months after the monument to Soviet ruler Vladimir Lenin at Taras Shevchenko Boulevard was torn down by pro-European protesters, artwork has again flowered on the spot.
Feb. 10, 2014
Police are investigating Center UA, a public-sector watchdog funded by Western donors, on suspicion of money laundering, the group said. The group’s leader, Oleh Rybachuk, said it appears that author
Feb. 8, 2014
Several hundred ‘titushkis’ advance on protester barricades in Kyiv, but then retreat (live updates)
EuroMaidan self-defense groups say they repelled a potential attack by a group of up to 2,000 people who advanced on barricades near the protester-occupied Kyiv City Hall about noon, but then hastily
Feb. 7, 2014
Charges of anti-Semitism are a hot weapon in Ukraine’s current political
crisis, but the evidence of anti-Semitic words and deeds within the
government or the anti-government EuroMaidan protest moveme
Feb. 5, 2014
European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fuele has once again said that Euromaidan protesters and opposition leaders must dissociate themselves from radical elemen
Feb. 4, 2014
Editor’s Note: Anti-government EuroMaidan demonstrations began in Ukraine on Nov. 21, triggered by President Viktor Yanukovych’s decision to abandon closer ties with the European Union in favor of Rus
Feb. 4, 2014
The situation was quiet in central Kyiv on Tuesday afternoon.
Protesters have been trying to communicate the latest news to law
enforcement but they seem to prefer some music instead, an
Interfax-Ukra
Feb. 3, 2014
Editor’s Note: Anti-government EuroMaidan demonstrations began in Ukraine on Nov. 21, triggered by President Viktor Yanukovych’s decision to abandon closer ties with the European Union.
Feb. 3, 2014
Oleksandr Danylyuk, the leader of radical anti-government group Spilna Sprava is in London, according to a status update he made more than an hour ago on his Facebook page.
Feb. 2, 2014
Editor’s Note: Anti-government EuroMaidan demonstrations began in Ukraine on Nov. 21, triggered by President Viktor Yanukovych’s decision to abandon closer ties with the European Union in favor of Rus
Jan. 29, 2014
At least two trade association complained that Ukrainian exports are once again facing troubles at the Russian border, similar to the brief but damaging trade war in August.
Jan. 27, 2014
In the early hours on Jan. 27, soon after one building of the Justice Ministry in Kyiv was seized by a small group of protesters, Justice Minister Olena Lukash issued a televised address, calling for