Elton John writes about how the Ukraine now threatens the freedom of gay people to express themselves or even speaking openly about homosexuality.
Ukraine’s jailed former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s problems mounted after a prosecutor said he was planning to charge her for a 1996 murder.
On the eve of the Euro 2012 football championships Ukraine is staring at nothing less than a full-blown PR disaster, writes Luke Harding.
Thirty-eight more people have died from extremely cold weather in Ukraine in the past 24 hours, bringing to 101 the toll from freezing temperatures.
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/ 2 December 2011
Five Ukrainian women have stripped off to protest what they say are plans to turn Ukraine into a ‘Euro-brothel’ during the 2012 European championship.
Ukraine’s Environment Minister Mykola Zlochevsky vowed on Wednesday to free all bears kept in restaurants for entertainment purposes.
Russian and Ukrainian leaders marked 25 years since the world’s worst nuclear disaster on Tuesday as they paid an historic visit to Chernobyl.
Chernobyl has brought greater cancer risks, economic hardship and homes uprooted — and no one can predict when it will end.
Only a Hollywood doomsday movie can prepare a visitor for Prypyat, the ghost town at the epicentre of the world’s worst nuclear disaster.
Hundreds of mainly elderly Ukrainians live within a restricted region around the Chernobyl plant, dispelling the area’s reputation as a dead zone.
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/ 12 October 2010
Forty people were killed on Tuesday when a bus crashed into a train after apparently jumping a red light at a level crossing in central Ukraine.
Armed men burst into the headquarters of Ukraine’s energy firm Naftogaz on Wednesday in what the security service said was part of a criminal inquiry.
Russia and Ukraine failed to resolve a gas row at a meeting in Moscow but will continue talks to end a dispute that has choked off supplies to Europe.
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/ 25 December 2008
An explosion ripped through an apartment building in southern Ukraine overnight, killing nine people, including a child, and at least 40 were missing.
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/ 19 September 2008
Ukraine’s chances of joining Nato have been ”considerably weakened” by the country’s political crisis, says Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
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/ 17 September 2008
Ukraine was on Tuesday night facing the prospect of further political instability after the pro-Western coalition formally collapsed.
Rescue workers found 23 miners missing underground after a gas explosion at a Ukrainian colliery and were bringing them to safety on Monday through a narrow ventilation shaft.
Rescuers on Monday brought to the surface alive two miners missing after a gas explosion at a Ukrainian colliery, and tried to push down a ventilation shaft to find 34 of their missing comrades.
Thirty-seven miners were missing after a gas explosion tore through a pit in Ukraine’s Donbass coalfield on Sunday.
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/ 20 November 2007
Rescue teams battled smoke and high temperatures on Monday as they pressed on with the task of tracking down 20 missing miners in a Ukrainian coal mine after a methane explosion killed at least 80 others. Distraught family members demanded information about victims more than 24 hours after the explosion.
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/ 19 November 2007
Rescue teams battled a tenacious fire in a Ukrainian colliery on Monday as they strove to locate 30 miners missing underground after a methane blast killed at least 70 miners. The explosion at the Zasyadko mine in Donetsk, heart of Ukraine’s Donbass coalfield, is likely to become the country’s deadliest accident since independence from Soviet rule in 1991.
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/ 18 November 2007
Seventeen miners were killed and 14 are missing after a methane explosion ripped through a mine in Ukraine’s Donbass coalfield on Sunday, the latest of a string of accidents in the region’s outdated mines. Ukraine’s Emergencies Ministry said 31 miners had been in the immediate vicinity of the 3am blast at the Zasyadko mine in the coalfield’s main town, Donetsk.
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/ 14 October 2007
Thirteen people were killed and 23 others injured in a natural-gas explosion at an apartment building in eastern Ukraine, the Emergency Situations Ministry said on Sunday, Interfax reported. The ministry earlier said that 11 people had died in Saturday’s incident in the city of Dnipropetrovsk.
Orange Revolution supporters claimed victory over allies of Ukraine’s prime minister in a snap parliamentary election, but the two camps face tough talks on Monday to forge a viable coalition. President Viktor Yushchenko dissolved Parliament in April, accusing his rival, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, of a grab for power.
Ukraine’s feuding president and prime minister on Sunday agreed to hold an early parliamentary election on September 30, diffusing the country’s months-long political crisis that had threatened to escalate into violence. ”We found a decision, which is a compromise,” Yushchenko was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency.
Ukraine’s president and prime minister will resume talks on Saturday in a bid to defuse an escalating political crisis and settle a dangerous arm-wrestle between the rivals for control of special security forces. President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych met for three hours late on Friday.
Ukraine’s antagonistic leaders said on Thursday they favoured a compromise to resolve a stand-off prompted by the president’s dissolution of Parliament, but neither appeared to make immediate concessions. President Viktor Yushchenko, swept to power by the mass protests of the 2004 ”Orange Revolution”, dissolved the chamber and called a new parliamentary election for May 27.
Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich increased pressure on Ukraine’s president on Wednesday, boycotting the campaign for a poll ordered by a leader aiming to restore his authority two-and-a-half years after the ”Orange Revolution”. Under Ukrainian law, the campaign opened on Wednesday.
Ukraine’s pro-Western President Viktor Yushchenko signed a decree on Monday to dissolve Parliament and order an election next month, stepping up months of confrontation with the assembly and prime minister. Parliament said the decree ”bears all the signs of a step towards a coup d’état” and made clear the chamber would defy it.
Investigators recovered flight recorders from the charred wreckage of a Russian airliner on Wednesday as grief-stricken families prepared to travel to the site to identify remains. Relatives of the 170 victims, who included 45 children under 12, are due to fly out from Pulkovo airport in St Petersburg to the scene of the crash, 45km north of the Ukrainian city of Donetsk.
An airliner flying from southern Russia to the country’s second city of St Petersburg crashed on Tuesday in flames in eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian emergencies ministry said. The ministry said helicopters circling the site about 45km north of the regional town of Donetsk saw the Tu-154 in flames.
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Ukraine toasted its hero footballers on Tuesday after the team defied expectations to secure a place in the World Cup quarterfinals by beating Switzerland 3-0 in a penalty shootout. ”We’re in the quarterfinals!” screamed the headline of one Kiev daily.