Transparency International calls on Ukraine President to fulfil his anti-corruption commitmentsTransparency International (press release) (blog)Ukraine must not delay the launch of a key electronic system to monitor the assets and interests of politicians and public…
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Ukraine Today“The Ukrainian military repelled them successfully. The coordinated efforts of the personnel made the enemy retreat to the initial firing positions. The enemy suffered losses of up to eight men. There were no losses…
Ukraine TodayOleksandr Yefremov, former Governor of Luhansk region and ex-leader of ousted President Yanukovych’s Party of Region, is accused of creating the so called Luhansk People’s Republic. This is reported by Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy…
Foreign Policy (blog)I was surprised by the words of Canadian historian Marco Carynnyk, who Cohen quoted in his article saying he had problems accessing the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) archive when I was director….
Ukraine crisis: ‘Last chance’ for peace says HollandeBBC NewsA peace plan drawn up by France and Germany is “one of the last chances” to end the conflict in east Ukraine, French leader Francois Hollande says….
The GuardianA huge Russian convoy allegedly carrying humanitarian aid was on its way to war-torn eastern Ukraine on Tuesday night, in a operation which the west fears may be a prelude to a Russian invasion…
New York TimesThe eurozone G.D.P. report, to be released Thursday by the European Union statistical agency, Eurostat, is based on data from before the latest tensions over Ukraine, and before the sanctions against Russia for…
Wall Street JournalEscalating tensions with Russia sent Ukraine’s currency tumbling to a record low against the dollar Tuesday, a move that could threaten the stability of the country’s banking system and raise the prospect of…
Daily BeastFor the last few days all media attention on the Ukrainian crisis has been focused on two topics: the advances made by Ukrainian forces around the city of Donetsk and, more worryingly, the threat…
Florida TodayA senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Nelson made his comments on the eve of a two-week, fact-finding trip to Ukraine, Lithuania and Turkey. Nelson plans to meet with local government leaders,…
Fox News11, 2014. Abbott and Rutte met Monday to discuss repatriation of Australian victims of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 disaster and to examine possibilities for prosecuting the persons responsible for downing the civilian plane…
ABC NewsRussian television and news agencies reported Tuesday that 2,000 tons of aid was en route to Ukraine, where fighting between pro-Russian separatists and government forces has claimed more than 1,300 lives since April, according…
The Moscow TimesUkraine said European companies would have to agree on a major revision of gas contracts with Russia if Kiev slaps sanctions on Moscow and Gazprom, a measure that may lead to disruption in…
New York TimesMOSCOW — An enormous Russian convoy of about 280 trucks carrying humanitarian aid has left Moscow for southeastern Ukraine, Russian television and news agencies reported Tuesday. The Russian aid has been an object…
PoliticoThe fog of war, the ADHD of cable news and the smears of Russian propaganda have combined to obscure some important good news in this dismal summer. In the historic fight over the future of…
Pensacola News JournalA senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Nelson made his comments on the eve of a two-week, fact-finding trip to Ukraine, Lithuania and Turkey. Nelson plans to meet with local government…
New York TimesAs the Kremlin announced that it had sent a convoy of humanitarian aid to the besieged, separatist-held city of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine under the auspices of the Red Cross, the secretary-general of…
Yahoo NewsThe Kremlin said Monday Russia will send a humanitarian convoy into Ukraine in cooperation with the International Red Cross. The statement was made in a readout of a telephone call between Russia's President Vladimir…
ReutersBRUSSELS/DONETSK (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that Russia is sending an aid convoy to eastern Ukraine despite urgent Western warnings against using humanitarian help as a pretext for an invasion. With Ukraine…
USA TODAYUkraine said Monday it had agreed with Russia, the European Union and the United States on an international humanitarian mission led by the Red Cross to the besieged city of Luhansk in far-eastern Ukraine….
New York Times3, a crowd of Ukrainian nationalists tried to block the entrance to a beachfront nightclub in the southern city of Odessa, waving sticks and shouting slogans that accused the night’s star attraction of…
Fox NewsAugust 10, 2014: A wounded Ukrainian woman receives treatment after shelling in Donetsk. One person was killed and 10 injured in shelling that started early Sunday morning and continued into the day, city council…
Telegraph.co.ukBut Kiev’s use of volunteer paramilitaries to stamp out the Russian-backed Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s republics”, proclaimed in eastern Ukraine in March, should send a shiver down Europe’s spine. Recently formed battalions such as Donbas,…
New York TimesIt also reinforced the Ukrainian leadership’s rejection of a cease-fire on humanitarian grounds offered on Saturday by the head of the main pro-Russian separatist group here, the Donetsk People’s Republic. The separatist leadership…
Ukraine Demands Rebels In Donetsk SurrenderHuffington PostDONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Fighting raged in the city of Donetsk on Sunday, as government forces continued to close in on the rebel stronghold and pro-Russian insurgents backed away…
Husband of Kiev Revolution Hero Killed in Battle in UkraineMashableSince 2002, Berezovy had been married to Chornovol, a former investigative journalist who investigated corruption and exposed the lavish lifestyles of Ukraine’s elite, including Viktor Yanukovych,…
The GuardianAt the corner of the stage hung the black, blue and red flag of the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic” (DNR), declared independent by pro-Russia rebels fighting to break away from Ukraine. Fans waved Russian…
CNBC“The other thing coming out of Russia is [President Vladimir Putin] with an emergency meeting that he’s trying to push to declare concern about a humanitarian crisis unfolding in [Ukraine],” Bremmer said on “Squawk Box.”…
Fox NewsUkrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said he will consider allowing an international aid mission into rebel-held areas of eastern Ukraine after pro-Russian separatists called for a case-fire to avert a “humanitarian catastrophe.” However …Ukraine…
The Two-WayNPR (blog)Updated at 3:50 p.m. ET. Amid reports that Ukraine army forces are closing in on rebel-held Donetsk, the leader of the separatist insurgents says his fighters would accept a cease-fire to avoid a…
Los Angeles TimesEmbattled Ukrainian separatists called for a truce Saturday after government troops surrounded their main stronghold of Donetsk, and a reported attempt by Russia to send in an armored aid convoy spurred warnings from…
BBC NewsPro-Russian rebels in Ukraine’s east have called for a ceasefire in Donetsk to avert a “humanitarian catastrophe”. Newly installed rebel political leader Aleksandr Zakharchenko made the call after other rebels said the army had…
Ukraine Rebel Leader Says Willing To Accept CeasefireHuffington PostDONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s rebels are surrounded and ready to agree to a cease-fire to prevent a “humanitarian catastrophe,” the insurgents’ new leader said Saturday as…
Reuters“We are ready for a ceasefire to prevent the proliferation of a humanitarian disaster in Donbass,” Alexander Zakharchenko, prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk people’s republic said in a statement, referring to the area of…
New York TimesDONETSK, Ukraine — The warnings from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the White House over the past week could not have been graver in tone: The Russian Army, they said, had massed…
ABC NewsRussia, which the Ukrainian government in Kiev and Western countries allege is supporting the rebels, has called repeatedly for a humanitarian mission into eastern Ukraine. But Kiev and the West suggest that could be…
Kyiv PostIn this file photo from Sept. 13, 2008, Russian peacekeepers leave their posts not far from Zugdidi, Georgia. Peacekeepers that have massed on Russia’s border with Ukraine were set to enter the country last…
Toronto SunKIEV – Ukraine said on Saturday it had headed off an attempt by Russia to send troops into Ukraine under the guise of peacekeepers with the aim of provoking a large-scale military conflict, a…
BBC NewsThe mayor of Kiev has taken the lead in work to dismantle the final barriers and tents on the Ukrainian capital’s main street, nine months after pro-EU demonstrators took to the streets. Vitali Klitschko,…
Is Putin Really Cornered?New York TimesWASHINGTON — The dismal flood of news out of Ukraine could hardly be more discouraging for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. The downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, apparently…
RT (blog)Canada said it received the request from the Ukrainian government. “Ukraine has asked for this and once again we are delivering,” Defence Minister Rob Nicholson Nicholson said at the Canadian Forces Base in Trenton….
RTThe MPs also addressed Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and the government, urging to “declassify the official data on the amount of people – civilians, Ukrainian soldiers, and everyone who took part in the anti-terrorist operation…
New York TimesARTEMIVSK, Ukraine — An explosion in downtown Kiev, Ukraine, on Friday injured at least two people and ignited fears of new conflict in the city, where protest barricades and tents still stand in…
Wall Street JournalA new opinion poll published on Friday shows Germans widely support the European Union’s latest sanctions against Russia and an overwhelming majority view the Kremlin’s actions in eastern Ukraine with an increasingly critical…
MashableThe United States warned Russia on Friday that it would consider any additional Russian moves into Ukrainian territory “an invasion of Ukraine,” even if done under the pretense of a humanitarian mission. The U.S. ambassador…
ABC News“Therefore, any further unilateral intervention by Russia into Ukrainian territory, including one under the guise of providing humanitarian aid, would be completely unacceptable and deeply alarming, and it would be viewed as an invasion…
BBC NewsInvestigators in Russia have announced the arrest of five Ukrainian army officers for alleged war crimes as fighting rages in eastern Ukraine. The officers from Ukraine’s 72nd Mechanised Brigade are apparently among hundreds of…
Dow reversal illustrates Ukraine sway over marketsUSA TODAYUkrainian servicemen greet people near the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, in the Donetsk region, as they ride an armoured personnel carrier (APC) on the road to Donetsk,…
RT“We simply have no other choice,” the Prime Minister said, adding that Ukraine will use part of the planned $17 billion IMF aid to achieve energy independence, and may go to the World Bank for…
Wall Street JournalNATO is warning that a Russian troops movement near the Ukrainian border could culminate in an invasion. Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Roman Popadiuk joins MoneyBeat to explain what happens next as the…
CBC.caCanada will send military equipment to help Ukraine protect its eastern border, Defence Minister Rob Nicholson said Thursday. “Ukraine has asked for this and once again we are delivering,” Nicholson said at CFB Trenton, a…
New York TimesThe episode highlighted the high risk of collateral damage and civilian casualties as the Ukrainian Army tries to defeat pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine by striking from a distance. In recent days, government…
Channel News AsiaZHDANIVKA, Ukraine: A Ukranian fighter jet tumbled to earth in a fireball on Thursday (Aug 7) after it was blasted out of the air while flying low over rebel-held territory in the east…
Reuters Blogs (blog)Ukrainian troops have made huge headway routing the separatists in the east. They are in the process of choking off the cities of Luhansk and Donetsk, to which many of the separatists have…
New York TimesPALO ALTO, Calif. — IN response to Russian support for Ukrainian rebels, and in coordination with European leaders, President Obama has instituted the most comprehensive set of economic sanctions ever against Russian officials…
CNNThis is the scenario that Putin’s fiercest critics worry is in the offing. They point to Russia’s annexation of Crimea in March — touted by Russia as a legitimate reflection of the will of the…
Fox NewsDONETSK, Ukraine – Residents of this eastern Ukrainian city are fleeing in droves as national forces step up mortar attacks aimed at dislodging the pro-Russian separatists who are clinging to control of a city…
Aljazeera.comNATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk have discussed possible Western alliance support for Ukraine’s defence capacity, a Kiev government statement said. Rasmussen and Yatseniuk exchanged …NATO chief arrives in Ukraine…
ReutersIn eastern Ukraine, a Dutch recovery team called off its work at the site where a Malaysian airliner was shot down over rebel-held territory last month, saying escalating fighting had made the frontline location too…
ReutersKIEV (Reuters) – Late last year, Ukraine’s consumer protection agency began filing lawsuits against Foxtrot, the country’s largest electronics retailer. By early March, Foxtrot faced at least 231 separate suits that demanded fines totaling more…
