Russian President Vladimir Putin has cited a threat to Russian citizens and servicemen at its Black Sea fleet as a need to send in armed forces.
The US president has warned Russia’s head of state against military action in Ukraine after its new leaders accused it of deploying troops in Crimea.
Defiant crowds may destroy an old regime, but seldom do they build a new one that endures.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has put combat troops on high alert for war near Ukraine in the Kremlin’s most powerful gesture yet.
Ukraine’s presidential website has announced that acting president Oleksander Turchinov has assumed the duties of head of the armed forces.
Ousted Ukranian President Viktor Yanukovich is being hunted by police for "mass murder" linked to the revolt against his rule.
After a day of drama in which Ukraine’s president was ousted, who was left ruling the country? According to Parliament, it was not Viktor Yanukovich.
Ukraine’s Parliament has voted to remove President Viktor Yanukovich from office, hours after he abandoned his Kiev office to protesters.
Protesters have been holding the offices of President Viktor Yanukovich, whose exact whereabouts are unknown, for the next president.
Ukraine’s opposition UDAR(Punch) party intends on submitting a parliamentary resolution calling on President Viktor Yanukovych to step down.
Ukraine opposition leaders have signed an EU-mediated peace deal with President Viktor Yanukovich, aiming to end a violent standoff.
Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych says a deal has been reached with the opposition, who has not confirmed the news after "very difficult" talks.
Protests were peaceful until government security forces launched an unexpected assault on Maidan square. But now protesters 
are fighting back.
Deaths have been reported after Kiev demonstrators were told to end their efforts to occupy government buildings.
The rand stumbled for a second day as inflation rose and unrest in Ukraine and Thailand caused investors to sour towards emerging markets.
Anti-government demonstrators now occupy four buildings in the centre of Kiev, including the city hall.
Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovich has tried to calm protest violence in Kiev that has claimed three lives. But the opposition remains sceptical.
Protesters refuse to retreat after Ukraine abandons a key agreement with the European Union.
The president weathered the Orange Revolution, but will need Moscow’s support to survive this year’s protests. But the opposition says its time to go.
Ukraine’s world boxing champion Vitali Klitschko has led protesters through the streets of Kiev demanding the release of jailed former prime minister.
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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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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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.