Kyiv and the rebels blamed each other for the escalation after artillery and mortar attacks on Thursday, prompting fears that Russia, which...

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said he had no doubt Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine.

Ukranian President Petro Poroshenko today stressed the need for legitimate elections in the country's separatist regions in order to eventu...

Islamist rebels including the powerful Ahrar al-Sham group were able overnight to recapture a village from IS, the Syrian Observatory for H...

The pro-Russian rebels are fighting Ukranian troops largely in the Donetsk province in the eastern region of the country.

At least 34 Ukrainian soldiers and civilians were killed on Thursday in one of the heaviest days of fighting in the nine-month separatist w...

"With deep sorrow just learned about Lithuania's honorary consul in Lugansk Mr. Mykola Zelenec kidnapped and brutally killed by terrorists ...

In Berlin, the German Press Office said Russia's plan to send a humanitarian convoy to eastern Ukraine was at the centre of the discussions...

They urged Putin to use his influence over pro-Russian rebels to ensure unrestricted access to the crash site for an independent commission.

In a catastrophic error, pro-Russian rebels shot down the Malaysian jet mistaking it for a Ukrainian military transport aircraft, a report ...

The incident is bound to have major repercussions for the Ukrainian crisis and international geopolitics.

The Ukrainian government and the pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country have blamed each other for the alleged shooting down of...

Obama and Hollande also called for a meeting "as quickly as possible with separatist elements, with the view to reaching a bilateral ceasef...

Only a third of voters in east of Ukraine plan to turn out for this month's crunch presidential election, according to an opinion poll.

Ukraine's leaders launched round-table talks as part of a Western-backed push to prevent the country falling from apart, vowing not to bow ...

Oil prices rose on Monday after pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine claimed a majority of voters in a disputed referendum chose independe...

Russia is planning to move parts of its Black Sea fleet towards Georgia's rebel Abkhazia region, a US State Department official has said.