EU leaders have frozen assets belonging to deposed Ukraine leaders, and have warned Russia of sanctions if they do not pull troops out of Crimea.
President Vladimir Putin says Russia has reserved the right to use all options in Ukraine, but that Moscow would use force only as a last resort.
Contradicitng his earlier comments, Ukraine’s former president Viktor Yanukovych asked for an intervention in Crimea, says Russia’s UN ambassador.
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.
Ukraine opposition leaders have signed an EU-mediated peace deal with President Viktor Yanukovich, aiming to end a violent standoff.
Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovich has tried to calm protest violence in Kiev that has claimed three lives. But the opposition remains sceptical.
Russian gas delivered into Ukraine’s pipelines to end an embargo on Europe cannot be transported onwards, officials said on Tuesday.
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.…
Ukraine was on Sunday night mourning one of the deadliest mining disasters in its 16-year history as an independent country, after at least 56 people were killed in an…
Russian rescue helicopters and ships searched for five missing seamen on Monday after a storm in the northern mouth of the Black Sea, while oil spilt from a sunken tanker coated…
Russia threatened on Tuesday to cut gas supplies to Ukraine again in a move that appears to reflect its displeasure at the prospect of a new orange government in Kiev. Gazprom,…
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…
