Although Ukraine’s monopoly arms maker Ukroboronprom suspended all shipments to Russia three weeks ago, no political decision has yet been taken on whether to resume contracts in the future, says Yuri
Apr. 15, 2014
Ukrainian officials say that Russia coordinated the takeovers of several Donetsk Oblast government buildings seized over the weaken by heavily armed and masked men in military uniforms.
Apr. 13, 2014
DONETSK, Ukraine – Since April 6, the state administration building that serves as government headquarters for 10 percent of Ukraine’s population has been home to the self-proclaimed People’s Republic
Apr. 11, 2014
Editor’s Note: This is an investigation conducted by the Washington, D.C.-based Organized Crime; Corruption Reporting Project, a Kyiv Post partner.
Apr. 10, 2014
The Security Service of Ukraine said that it has today negotiated the release of 56 unarmed people from the state agency’s headquarters, but that talks continue with armed pro-Russian separatists hold
Apr. 9, 2014
Russia is mobilizing for war and may be poised for a springtime invasion of Ukraine’s mainland, after stealing Crimea in less than three weeks.
Mar. 28, 2014
Since Russian troops invaded and took over Crimea, Ukraine’s authorities have seemed largely helpless. The criticism is not easing since many expect that Russia may invade the mainland, citing Russian
Mar. 26, 2014
SIMFEROPOL, Crimea — The annexation of Crimea by Russia is already having a potentially deadly affect on one local population group – a group of patients on substitution therapy.
Mar. 24, 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 — 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
U.S. and British investigators are in Ukraine
to assist the Ukrainian government with recovering as much as $70 billion that
fugitive ex-President Viktor Yanukovych and his close circle allegedly stol
Mar. 11, 2014
Voters in Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Crimea who vote in the March 16 referendum have two choices – join Russia immediately or declare independence and then join Russia.
So the choices are “yes, now” o
Mar. 7, 2014
Soon after the Russian troops started invading Crimea, an entirely different invasion started in eastern and southern Ukraine. Dozens of Russian civilians traveled to those regions to stir up separati
Mar. 7, 2014
The Soviet Kremlin was skilled at dishonesty – from Vladimir Lenin’s “a lie told often enough becomes the truth” to Josef Stalin’s denial of Ukraine’s forced famine that killed millions
Mar. 5, 2014
BELBEK, Crimea — In the early morning hours of March 4, a group of unarmed Ukrainian soldiers marched from their barracks on the territory off Belbek military airfield near Sevastopol to demand that t
Mar. 4, 2014