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BELBEK AIR BASE, Crimea—Pro-Russian forces stormed a Ukrainian air force base in Crimea, firing shots and stun grenades and smashing through concrete walls with armored personnel carriers. At least on
Mar. 22, 2014
Several hundred demonstrators have gathered near the monument to Vladimir Lenin on Freedom Square in Kharkiv to demand that a referendum be held on the Ukrainian southeastern regions’ broad autonomy a
Mar. 22, 2014
The swift annexation of Crimea from Ukraine by Russia is one of the biggest international incidents of recent years, with global condemnation leading to sanctions and the worrying possibility of arme
Mar. 22, 2014
The European Union has signed the political provisions of an association agreement with Ukraine in Brussels.
Mar. 21, 2014
A total of 1,288 people left Crimea for Ukraine temporarily or permanently, mostly the Lviv region as of March 19, member of the Ukrainian government Ostap Semerak told a briefing in Kyiv on March 20
Mar. 20, 2014
SEVASTOPOL, Crimea — Russian forces and Russian-backed Crimean “self-defense” units have moved against Ukrainian army bases in Crimea, following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annexiation of Ukrai
Mar. 19, 2014
Several members of the nationalist Svoboda Party scandalously assaulted the acting CEO of state-owned First National TV channel. On March 18, lawmakers Ihor Miroshnichenko, Andriy Illenko and Bohdan B
Mar. 19, 2014
With Crimean Prime Minister Serhiy Aksyonov sitting in the front row, Russian President Vladimir Putin carried through on his threat to annex Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula as part of Russia — a violatio
Mar. 19, 2014
SIMFEROPOL, Crimea – His name is Reshat Ametov, a 38-year-old Crimean Tatar, and many here suspect he is the first victim of Russia’s occupation of the Ukrainian peninsula.
Mar. 18, 2014
Acting President of Ukraine, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov has appointed Leonid Prus the Chairman of Khmelnytsky regional state administration, Mykhailo Romanov – Chair
Mar. 18, 2014
In the wake of a March 16 referendum in which Crimeans voted to join the Russian Federation, Ukrainian leaders refused to cede any part of the peninsula, calling on their troops to prepare for war.
Mar. 17, 2014
SIMFEROPOL, Crimea — With one exit poll showing that 93 percent of Crimeans voted to join Russia, and street celebrations under way, the peninsula’s pro-Kremlin prime minister
Mar. 17, 2014
SIMFEROPOL, Crimea — Several Russian military helicopters landed on March 15 in southern Kherson Oblast near Kremlin-occupied Crimea, bringing dozens of commandoes and seizing a natural gas plant.
Mar. 15, 2014
SIMFEROPOL, Crimea — Behind closed doors, and amid a heavy presence of men armed with Kalashnikovs in the Crimean parliament building, Serhiy Aksyonov was elected the new prime minister of the autonom
Mar. 15, 2014
U.S. senators John McCain and Dick Durbin, two of eight American senators visiting Ukraine this weekend, say they will urge U.S. President Barack Obama to immediately send arms and other military supp
Mar. 15, 2014
Experts of the Council of Europe for constitutional law have said
that the referendum in Crimea on the peninsula’s joining Russia which
the Crimean authorities plan to hold on March 16 is illegal and
Mar. 15, 2014