Ukraine
They came to help police in their standoff with demonstrators, but ended up getting captured by those very protesters. Now they are prisoners of a war whose casualties are growing by the day with no e
Feb. 21, 2014
Serhiy Klyuyev, the younger brother President Viktor Yanukovych’s chief of staff Andriy Klyuyev, was calm despite the nation’s crisis when the Kyiv Post interviewed him in his luxurious office on Feb.
Feb. 21, 2014
Acting Ukrainian Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko announces
that combat weapons have been provided to the law enforcement members,
which will be used in line with the law on police.
Feb. 20, 2014
Editor’s Note: Police launched a raid on Independence Square at 8 p.m. on Feb. 18 .The Feb. 18-19 clashes killed at least 26 persons, including 10 police officers, and injured more than 1,000 people.
Feb. 20, 2014
Editor’s Note: Police launched a raid on Independence Square at 8 p.m. on Feb. 18 .The Feb. 18-19 clashes killed at least 26 persons, including 10 police officers, and injured more than 1,000 people.
Feb. 20, 2014
Crimean Parliament Speaker Volodymyr Konstantynov has not ruled out
the possibility that the autonomous republic may secede from Ukraine if
tensions escalate further in the country.
Feb. 20, 2014
As Ukraine’s KGB-successor agency announced the start of a nationwide “anti-terrorist” operation in
coordination with other law enforcement and defense bodies
Feb. 19, 2014
Ukraine’s authorities admitted on Feb. 19 that massive stocks of arms were stolen from regional police and Security Service of Ukraine headquarters, and suggested that those weapons were being transp
Feb. 19, 2014
Editor’s Note: Police launched a raid on Independence Square at 8 p.m. on Feb. 18. See Kyiv Post coverage of daytime clashes today between police and protesters that killed at least 25 persons.
Feb. 19, 2014
Open warfare broke out on the streets of Kyiv today, with at least 25 persons reportedly killed and more than 1,000 people injured. It was a day of non-stop bloodletting, smoke, fire.
Feb. 19, 2014
The presidium of the Supreme Council of Crimea believes a civil war
has in fact begun in Ukraine and calls on President Viktor Yanukovych to
take extraordinary measures to preserve the foundations of
Feb. 18, 2014
Radical activists of Ukraine’s opposition forced open the entrance
door to the Party of Regions’ office, located on Lypska Street in the
center of Kyiv, and entered the building’s courtyard.
Feb. 18, 2014
Ukraine’s leader has become a puppet of Russian President Vladimir Putin and is unable to take independent decisions on the country’s future, jailed opposition icon Yulia Tymoshenko said in an intervi
Feb. 15, 2014
The Council of Maidan all-Ukrainian Association has declared it is ready to comply with some requirements of the amnesty law after the release of all detained activists.
Feb. 14, 2014
The Right Sector movement, a radical wing of anti-government
protesters in Ukraine, in connection with the release of arrested
protesters from custody has declared its readiness to free Hrushevskoho
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Feb. 14, 2014
Kyiv
Two months after the monument to Soviet ruler Vladimir Lenin at Taras Shevchenko Boulevard was torn down by pro-European protesters, artwork has again flowered on the spot.
Feb. 13, 2014