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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
Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada has terminated early powers of Crimea’s Supreme Council. A total of 278 people’s deputies, out of 296 registered for the meeting on Saturday, voted for the relevant decree.
Mar. 15, 2014
A former foreign minister of Ukraine on Friday introduced a bill to annul Ukraine’s membership in the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Mar. 15, 2014
Chornomornaftogaz, which the Crimean authorities plan to nationalize,
could be privatized as a result of an open tender in the future,
Crimea’s First Deputy Prime Minister Rustam Temirgaliyev told In
Mar. 14, 2014
If there’s one thing cartoonists agree on these days, it’s that the situation in Ukraine lends itself to creative interpretation.
Mar. 13, 2014
Former State Security Head of Ukraine Oleksandr Yakimenko blames Ukraine’s current government for hiring snipers on Feb. 20, when dozens of people were killed and hundreds more wounded. The victims we
Mar. 13, 2014
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States General Martin Dempsey has claimed that in the case of an escalation of unrest in Crimea, the U.S. Army is ready to back up Ukraine and its a
Mar. 12, 2014
As dozens of protesters were dying on the streets of Kyiv by blunt force and bullets from police on Feb. 19-20, Ukraine’s now former President Viktor Yanukovych was quietly making an escape from his p
Mar. 12, 2014
Ukraine’s Security Service detained a Russian saboteur in Donetsk Oblast on March 10, said SBU Chief Valentyn Nalyvaichenko. The suspect is accused of preparing explosions and orchestrating other acts
Mar. 11, 2014
A total of 102 participants in the clashes in Kyiv downtown have passed away between Jan. 20 and March 11, 2014, due to the escalation of the clashes in Kyiv downtown. Since 10:20 on Feb. 18, medical
Mar. 11, 2014
The Ukrainian National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting
demands that providers stop broadcasting some Russian television
channels on their networks by 7 p.m.
Mar. 11, 2014