Tag: Ukraine

KIEV — Government troops fought to gain control of the rebel-held city of Donetsk and a key highway in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday —...

US, French, Australian governments concerned Russia might use humanitarian deliveries to carry out operation to help pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine Russia says it will transfer...

A senior aide to Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko said a large Russian military convoy had been heading for the border on Friday under a supposed agreement with the Red Cross, but had stopped after an appeal by Kiev to Russia.

Ukrainian army units which had been trapped by separatists on the border with Russia broke out of the blockade on Friday and rejoined government...

New EU and US sanctions restrict sales of arms and of equipment for the oil industry, while Russian state banks are barred from raising...

A top rebel chief in east Ukraine has banned fighters from swearing, saying it "spiritually demeans us and will lead our army to defeat",...

Russian Foreign Ministry says additional sanction list is direct evidence that EU countries have set course for fully scaling down cooperation with Russia Russia reacted...

Donetsk, a city of about 1 million people, is a major centre of the separatist uprising that has battled Ukrainian government forces for five...

SYDNEY- More than a week after Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 came down in rebel-held eastern Ukraine human remains are still at the crash site,...

A powerful Ukrainian rebel leader has confirmed that pro-Russian separatists had an anti-aircraft missile of the type Washington says was used to shoot down...

Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk resigned on Thursday in protest at the disbanding of the ruling parliamentary coalition. “I announce my resignation in connection with...

Planes were downed near Savur Mogila, a burial mound in the Shaktersky region where a memorial marks ambushes by the Soviet army on occupying...

  Ukraine is preparing a departure ceremony for the bodies of victims of the Malaysia Airlines disaster, which are being flown to the Netherlands. Deputy Prime...

Ceasefire within a 10-kilometre radius around the crash site will allow international investigators to safely access the vast area where the Malaysia Airlines flight...

Evidence has been tampered with on an “industrial scale” at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said...

International inspectors got access to the remains of hundreds of victims stored in refrigerated railway wagons near the crash site but governments expressed concern over broader access to the rebel-held area

HRABOVE, Ukraine - Another 21 bodies have been found in the sprawling fields of east Ukraine where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was downed last week,...