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Donetsk - Tempers flared Friday on Lenin Square in Donetsk -- a Russia-friendly heartland city in eastern Ukraine that has been swept by unrest since the ouster of former president and native son Viktor Yanukovych.Pro-Russian activists have set up a round-the-cl...

Turkey's Air Force has once again scrambled six of its F-16 Fighting Falcon jet fighters to intercept a Russian IL-20 surveillance plane flying near its Black Sea coastal frontier.

Moscow - Russia does not want a new Cold War, President Vladimir Putin's spokesman said on Friday, as tensions rose over Russian-backed demands by Crimea to secede from Ukraine.Dmitry Peskov was asked on a chat show on state television whether he could foresee ...

- Trailed by a convoy of cars waving the Ukrainian flag and honking their horns, two buses carrying OSCE observers stopped dead at a checkpoint flying the Russian colours.For the second day in row, 47 military and civilian observers from the Organisation...

Sebastopol - It's seven in the morning and the alarm clock buzzes: a new day dawns for Oleksandr -- a Ukrainian soldier in Crimea living under siege from a foreign army.For the past week, this 27-year-old aviation mechanic has been stuck at his base in Belbek, Seva...

Moscow - Russian energy giant Gazprom on Friday warned Ukraine it could cut off gas exports if the new authorities in Kiev did not pay a bill for debt that now stands at $1.89 billion."Ukraine has de-facto stopped paying for gas...

A sophisticated piece of spyware has been quietly infecting hundreds of government computers across Europe and the United States in one of the most complex cyber espionage programs unc...

Lviv - In the city of Lviv, across Ukraine from the crisis gripping Crimea, a group of Tatars fleeing the troubled peninsula disembarks on a train platform looking for security away from Russian forces."I'm scared for my children as long as Russian soldiers a...

Novooleksiyivka - Military observers from the OSCE who were blocked from entering Crimea will make a second attempt to enter the Black Sea peninsula on Friday, a source travelling with them told AFP.The source would not specify exactly where or when the team of 40 obser...

Kiev - Ukraine's far-right Pravy Sektor movement on Friday announced its leader Dmytro Yarosh would make a presidential bid in elections scheduled for May 25.The movement, which took a leading role in the deadly protests that unseated former president Viktor ...