The Ukrainian president will ask his parliament to consider enacting martial law after three Ukrainian navy ships were fired upon and captured in the Black Sea on Sunday.
Russia and Ukraine traded accusations over an incident at sea Sunday near the disputed Crimean Peninsula, increasing tensions between both countries and prompting Moscow to block passage through the Kerch Strait.
Pope Francis recalled Sunday the manmade, Stalin-era famine that killed millions of Ukrainians in the early 20th century, praying that such a massacre never be repeated.
New research exposing a huge divide in attitudes to social issues has revealed that young eastern and central Europeans hold much more conservative views on topics such as gay marriage than people across all age groups in western Europe. The
Contents: Ukraine counters Russia’s military buildup in the Sea of Azov; Ukraine prepares to challenge Russia in the Sea of Azov; Violent school massacre in occupied Crimea kills 19 people
An 18-year-old allegedly massacred his fellow students with a shotgun on Wednesday at a vocational school in Crimea, the Ukrainian territory Russia annexed in 2014, killing 19 and injuring more than 50 others before committing suicide.
Contents: Constantinople grants Ukrainian Orthodox Church independence, causing historic split with Russia; Russia says that Constantinople’s decision is ‘catastrophic’
U.S-backed Ukraine is expected to strengthen its military presence in the Azov Sea and deploy additional forces to the region to repel an intensifying Russian threat, Reuters learned from the chief of the Ukrainian forces over the weekend.
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko urged the United Nations during his General Assembly speech Wednesday to intervene and curb Russia’s military invasion of his country, lamenting that Russia’s “abuse of [its] veto power” at the Security Council has acted as a “brake” on legitimate U.N. intervention.
Contents: Russian Orthodox Church in historic split with Constantinople over Ukraine issue; Consequences of an independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church
LVIV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian city of Lviv, once a major center of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, is commemorating the 75th anniversary of the annihilation of the city’s Jewish population by Nazi Germany and honoring those working today to remember and preserve what they can of that vanished world.
Contents: Alexander Zakharchenko, leader of Russian forces in eastern Ukraine, is assassinated; Alexander Zakharchenko was increasingly annoying to his masters in Moscow
The leader of the Russian-backed separatists fighting in Ukraine’s Donetsk region was reportedly killed Friday by an explosion at a cafe.
BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office says she plans weekend talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Germany on issues including the development of a contentious Baltic Sea natural gas pipeline.
The Russian government on Saturday announced the appointment of actor Steven Seagal as a special envoy on U.S.-Russian humanitarian ties.
The Russian government reacted with outrage on Wednesday following a declaration from the State Department confirming that Washington would never legitimize Moscow’s illegal invasion and annexation of Crimea, Ukraine.
The media are not interested in Russia. They are only interested in taking down Trump. Hence the free pass for Obama and friends.
The Pentagon announced Friday it is providing $200 million to Ukraine to strengthen its military, which is locked in low-grade war with Russia. The funds will go to additional training, equipment, and advisory efforts.
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Western powers on Thursday against deepening military alliances with Georgia and Ukraine, asserting that Russia would “respond proportionately” to “aggressive moves” against it.
According to Bloomberg News sources who claim to have attended his closed-door speech, Russian President Vladimir Putin told his diplomats that he made an offer to resolve the conflict in eastern Ukraine during his summit with President Donald Trump in Helsinki on Monday.
A former Minneapolis daycare provider who attempted to hang a toddler in her home avoided prison Monday after a judge sentenced her to ten years of probation.
Ukraine was clearly following the summit in Helsinki between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin closely and with some anxiety. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko registered his disapproval by vowing that his country is prepared to defend itself against Russia “alone, without international support” if necessary, while the leader of the pro-Russian Ukrainian Choice movement said the Trump-Putin summit “should become a wake-up call for the Ukrainian authorities.”
On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump will hold a globally-anticipated one-on-one meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Contents: Russia’s actions in Sea of Azov raise fears of another invasion of Ukraine; Ukraine’s Donbas war continues, as US supplies Javelin anti-tank missiles
Ukraine announced its decision this week to neither regulate cryptocurrency mining nor tax profits from this endeavor, cementing its status as one of the most crypto-friendly countries in the world.
A Russian journalist who, with the help of Ukrainian police, faked his own death said on Wednesday that he has no plans to die until he has “danced on Putin’s grave.”
Anti-Putin Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko appeared at a press conference Wednesday, a day after reports appeared to confirm his assassination in Kiev, Ukraine, explaining that Ukrainian police fabricated his killing to catch those plotting his murder.
The Netherlands and Australia are holding the government of Russia legally responsible for providing pro-Moscow separatists the missile system used to shoot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine in 2014, killing all 298 people onboard, including an American citizen.
The New York Times published a list of questions Monday that, it said, were prepared by Special Counsel Robert Mueller to ask President Donald Trump. One of them, oddly, referred to a long-debunked conspiracy theory about the 2016 Republican Party platform.
General Raymond Thomas, the head of U.S. Special Operations Command, said at a conference in Tampa, Florida on Wednesday that “adversaries” are jamming U.S. Air Force electronics in Syria, creating what he described as “the most aggressive EW environment on the planet.”
Ukraine and Belarus commemorated the 32nd anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster this week with memorial services and marches. The Chernobyl incident, the worst civilian nuclear accident in history, began on April 26, 1986.
Contents: Russia builds bridge over Kerch Strait to Crimea, blocking commercial traffic to Ukraine; Ukraine threatens seizure of ships in Sea of Azov travelling to and from Crimea
The Trump administration on Thursday approved the sale of 210 Javelin anti-tank missiles and 37 launchers to Ukraine, a deal valued at $47 million. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko quickly expressed gratitude to President Trump for making the sale, while the Russians were considerably less pleased.
Protesters who support Ukraine’s populist Movement of New Forces claimed this week that the nation’s top prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko lunged at their protest tent Monday night brandishing an ax.
Just a few hours from Germany, Europe’s largest economy, a Ukrainian soldier is killed every three days defending the territory of his country inside its borders, according to the Trump administration’s special representative to the Ukraine conflict Amb. Kurt Volker.
Contents: Syria, Russia, Iran conduct full-on mass extermination of civilians in Eastern Ghouta; Russia rejects 30-day ceasefire in United Nations Security Council; North Korea insults South Korea with selection of Kim Yong-chol head of Olympics closing ceremony
Contents: Special prosecutor Robert Mueller issues farcical indictment of Russian trolls; How the Russian trolls do their jobs; Russian trolls are Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons; Comparing Russian trolls to Chinese hackers
Ukrainian authorities violently arrested and deported Mikheil Saakashvili, former Georgian president and governor of Ukraine’s Odessa region, to Poland on Monday, citing his lack of permission to enter the country.
Author and sociologist Frank Furedi claims globalist activists working for billionaire financier George Soros bragged about toppling governments at a private lunch.
Former Vice President Joe Biden told the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC, that the focus on alleged collusion between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign leading up to the 2016 presidential election had “obscured” a bigger issue.
