Tag: 2014

Belarus has announced it will stage joint military exercises with Russia near its border with Ukraine and claimed that Nato…

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has told the Yalta security forum in Kiev that he fears a Russian invasion and that…

Ukraine and Russian-backed militias in eastern Ukraine have swapped prisoners as part of a deal agreed this month at a…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he plans to withdraw his forces from the frontline if Russian-backed rebels also pull back. …

Russia says it has built a 60km fence, equipped with sensors and CCTV cameras, along the north of the illegally…

Ukraine’s Orthodox church has selected a leader for a newly independent denomination in a split from Russia, further straining bilateral…

The European Parliament has urged EU member states to pressurise Russia into relaxing its “de-facto blockade” of international shipping in…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called the gun and bomb attack by a Crimean teenager, in which 21 young people…

Donald Trump says the United States is considering a request from Poland for a permanent military base, acknowledging that he…

A storm in the Kerch Strait at the weekend tore a pontoon crane from its moorings and smashed it against…

Ukraine’s president, Petro Poroshenko, says senior members of the Orthodox clergy are ready to grant independence to the Kiev church,…

A Russian journalist, who was supposed to have been shot dead in Ukraine, has appeared alive at a press conference…

Sweden says it is planning to send leaflets to 4.7 million homes with instructions on what to do in the…

Russia has committed “multiple and grave” human rights abuses in Crimea since the 2014 occupation, the United Nations said. It…

A court in the Russian-occupied Crimea peninsula has sentenced a prominent Crimean Tatar leader, Akhtem Chiygoz, to eight years in…