As Ukraine’s KGB-successor agency announced the start of a nationwide “anti-terrorist” operation in
coordination with other law enforcement and defense bodies
Feb. 19, 2014
Ukraine’s authorities admitted on Feb. 19 that massive stocks of arms were stolen from regional police and Security Service of Ukraine headquarters, and suggested that those weapons were being transp
Feb. 19, 2014
Editor’s Note: Police launched a raid on Independence Square at 8 p.m. on Feb. 18. See Kyiv Post coverage of daytime clashes today between police and protesters that killed at least 25 persons.
Feb. 19, 2014
Open warfare broke out on the streets of Kyiv today, with at least 25 persons reportedly killed and more than 1,000 people injured. It was a day of non-stop bloodletting, smoke, fire.
Feb. 19, 2014
Ukraine’s leader has become a puppet of Russian President Vladimir Putin and is unable to take independent decisions on the country’s future, jailed opposition icon Yulia Tymoshenko said in an intervi
Feb. 15, 2014
Kyiv
Two months after the monument to Soviet ruler Vladimir Lenin at Taras Shevchenko Boulevard was torn down by pro-European protesters, artwork has again flowered on the spot.
Feb. 13, 2014
Editor’s Note: Anti-government EuroMaidan demonstrations began in Ukraine on Nov. 21, triggered by President Viktor Yanukovych’s decision to abandon closer ties with the European Union.
Feb. 9, 2014
Several hundred ‘titushkis’ advance on protester barricades in Kyiv, but then retreat (live updates)
EuroMaidan self-defense groups say they repelled a potential attack by a group of up to 2,000 people who advanced on barricades near the protester-occupied Kyiv City Hall about noon, but then hastily
Feb. 8, 2014
Andriy Parubiy, the security chief of EuroMaidan, instructed the protesters on Feb. 7 to accept no objects from people they don’t know, no matter how well-meaning they may seem. His warning came a day
Feb. 7, 2014
About 45% of Ukrainians support the demonstrations in favor of Ukraine’s closer relations with Europe, known as Euromaidan, while 48% do not support them and 7% are undecided, a poll of 2,600 responde
Feb. 7, 2014
Charges of anti-Semitism are a hot weapon in Ukraine’s current political
crisis, but the evidence of anti-Semitic words and deeds within the
government or the anti-government EuroMaidan protest moveme
Feb. 7, 2014
Money talks, as a recent investigation by Ukrainska Pravda deputy chief editor Serhiy Leshchenko shows.
Feb. 7, 2014
The portrait of an average EuroMaidan activist looks something like this: a man from western Ukraine, about 40 years of age and a specialist likely with a higher education. His main demand is resigna
Feb. 6, 2014
In a conversation leaked online and posted to YouTube on Feb. 4, voices closely resembling those of U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland disc
Feb. 6, 2014
European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fuele has once again said that Euromaidan protesters and opposition leaders must dissociate themselves from radical elemen
Feb. 5, 2014
Editor’s Note: Anti-government EuroMaidan demonstrations began in Ukraine on Nov. 21, triggered by President Viktor Yanukovych’s decision to abandon closer ties with the European Union in favor of Rus
Feb. 4, 2014
Editor’s Note: Anti-government EuroMaidan demonstrations began in Ukraine on Nov. 21, triggered by President Viktor Yanukovych’s decision to abandon closer ties with the European Union.
Feb. 3, 2014
Oleksandr Danylyuk, the leader of radical anti-government group Spilna Sprava is in London, according to a status update he made more than an hour ago on his Facebook page.
Feb. 3, 2014
Editor’s Note: Anti-government EuroMaidan demonstrations began in Ukraine on Nov. 21, triggered by President Viktor Yanukovych’s decision to abandon closer ties with the European Union in favor of Rus
Feb. 2, 2014
U.S. President Barack Obama said that America hopes that negotiations with Ukraine’s officials and political opposition will lead to “some sort of democratic process that creates a government with gre
Feb. 1, 2014