Tag: Ukraine

Canada says it is pulling its ambassador from Moscow over the crisis in Ukraine. A statement issued by Prime Minister Stephen Harper after an emergency...

SEVASTOPOL- The pro-Russian prime minister of Ukraine's restive Crimea claimed control of all military, police and other security services in this strategic peninsula Saturday and...

SIMFEROPOL- The Ukrainian region of Crimea was taken over by Pro-Russian armed men who seized control of parliament and government buildings on Thursday and...

MOSCOW- Ukraine must not be forced to choose between close ties with Russia or the West, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday. The comment...

KIEV- Ukrainian authorities on Monday announced that the ousted President Viktor Yanukovich is wanted for mass murder of demonstrators that shot by police snipers during...

Ukraine's parliament on Saturday voted to remove President Viktor Yanukovich after three months of street protests, while his arch-rival Yulia Tymoshenko hailed opposition demonstrators...

KIEV- Violence flared again in Kiev on Friday as Ukraine's opposition politicians pondered a draft deal with Russian-backed President Viktor Yanukovich which EU foreign...

KIEV- At least 21 civilians were killed in fresh fighting in Kiev on Thursday, shattering an overnight truce declared by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich, and...

KIEV- Flames engulfed Kiev's occupied Independence Square on Wednesday as police stormed the main protest camp in a bloody escalation of Ukraine's three-month political...

KIEV- Ukraine protesters on Sunday vacated the city hall in Kiev, the symbolic centre of prolonged anti-government demonstrations, eyewitnesses say. "City hall is almost completely evacuated",...

WASHINGTON- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will be meeting key Ukrainian opposition figures on Friday on the sidelines of a security conference in Munich,...

KIEV- Police clashed with protesters who barricaded a building in central Kiev on Sunday. Protesters numbering a few thousands attempted to storm a cultural centre where...

Two demonstrators were on Wednesday reported killed in new anti-government unrest in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, inflaming protesters who confronted the police. Reports spread...

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich on Monday appealed for compromise as police and demonstrators clashed again in the streets in a series of worst violence...

Pro-EU Ukrainian activists on Sunday prepared to take to the streets of the Ukrainian capital of Kiev to defy controversial new curbs on rallies...

Ukraine’s ongoing crisis intensified on Sunday with fear of clashes between the Supporters and opponents of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych during rival protests in...

Thousands of Ukrainians massed outside parliament Tuesday as lawmakers debated a no-confidence motion against the government after its scrapping of a deal with the...