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Editor’s Note: Ukrainians went to the polls on May 25 and elected Petro Poroshenko, a billionaire businessman, independent member of parliament, a former economic and foreign minister.
May. 26, 2014
With most votes counted, presumptive President-elect Petro Porshenko gave his first post-election press conference on May 26 — with Kyiv Mayor-elect Vitali Klitschko at his side — and talked about the
May. 26, 2014
The voter turnout in the early presidential election in Ukraine was over
60 percent, said Head of the Central Election Commission (CEC) Mykhailo
Okhendovsky said.
May. 26, 2014
Towny Lisicansk in the Luhansk region is fully occupied by terrorists and insurgents, all the administrative building and the police headquarters are seized. This is reported by employees of the Town
May. 26, 2014
Ukrainians elected Petro Poroshenko to be their fifth president in a vote that was dubbed “the second independence referendum,” because of voters’ determination to cast their ballots despite a Russian
May. 26, 2014
For the residents of the capital a lot more was at stake than just the presidency on May 25. Kyiv elected a mayor and the city legislature for the first time since 2008.
May. 25, 2014
A group of hackers has been arrested in Kyiv with specialized equipment intended to rig the results of the Ukraine’s presidential election, according to Victor Yagun, deputy head of the Security Servi
May. 25, 2014
TOREZ/DONETSK, Ukraine — Just one day before Ukraine holds a crucial presidential election, confusion and a looming specter of violence are dissuading voters from going to the polls in the country’s r
May. 24, 2014
The situation in Ukraine’s struggling Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts, which for more than two months have had parts of their territory controlled by groups of Russia-backed armed separatists is likely t
May. 24, 2014
TOREZ, Ukraine — Paramilitaries from a group organized by presidential candidate Oleh Lyashko stormed a local government building in a sleepy eastern Ukrainian mining city and killed a pro-Russian sep
May. 23, 2014
Ukrainian government will allocate Hr 100 million to buy 22 BTR-3E armored personnel carriers (APCs) for the Armed Forces and the National Guard, Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said.
May. 23, 2014
Outnumbered six-to-one, at least one Ukrainian
Donbas Volunteer Battalion member was killed and 20 were wounded in an ambush
by 150-200 pro-Russian separatists in the village of Karlivka, 35 kilometer
May. 23, 2014
Two more Ukrainian military servicemen, who were injured near Volnovakha (Donetsk region) on May 22, died in the early hours of Friday morning, said Kostiantyn Zinkevych, a military serviceman from th
May. 23, 2014
Crimean housewives were the first to feel the harder realities of life under Russia, with food prices shooting up 20 to 50 percent.
May. 22, 2014
Editor’s Note: On May 11, the People’s Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk declared their independence from Ukraine after holding dubious separatist referendums on the same day. Since then, the Ukrainian
May. 22, 2014
The margin between the leaders of the Ukrainian presidential race,
Petro Poroshenko and Yulia Tymoshenko, was over 30 percent six days before the
election, according to the findings of a poll conducte
May. 22, 2014