Ukraine News

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...

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...

Washington - The International Monetary Fund said Friday it viewed the new government in Ukraine as committed to undertaking needed reforms in exchange for aid.IMF European Department Director Reza Moghadam said he had held "productive" talks with Prime Minister Ar...

Kiev - As the Western media beats the drums of war to pursue oil and gas interests in Ukraine, it displays a level of blatant propaganda not seen since World War II. Contrary to official U.S. statements, Ukraine is anything but an independent nation now.

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...

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 ...