http://www.rferl.org/archive/Ukraine/latest/670/670.html RFE/RL's latest news, features, commentary, and multimedia content on Ukraine http://www.rferl.org/img/rssLogo_RFERL.gif http://www.rferl.org/archive/Ukraine/latest/670/670.html en-US Copyright 2014 - RFE/RL, Inc. 60 Wed, 27 Aug 2014 09:57:53 +0000 Pangea CMS – RFE/RL Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin have held direct talks on the crisis in eastern Ukraine at a summit in Minsk, Belarus. Speaking to reporters, Poroshenko said all sides “without exception” backed Kyiv's peace proposals for ending the fighting. Putin said Russia will “do everything to support this peace process if it starts” but that it was up to Kyiv to work out conditions for a cease-fire with the rebels. (Reuters) http://www.rferl.org/media/video/poroshenko-putin-russia-ukraine/26552462.html http://www.rferl.org/media/video/poroshenko-putin-russia-ukraine/26552462.html Wed, 27 Aug 2014 08:17:00 +0000 News Clips http://www.rferl.org/contentlive/liveblog/25416257.html http://www.rferl.org/contentlive/liveblog/25416257.html Wed, 27 Aug 2014 05:34:58 +0000 Blogs It's a claim authorities in Kyiv have made for months, but in recent days the evidence has become undeniable. Russian soldiers are now being captured -- and perhaps dying -- in Ukraine. http://www.rferl.org/content/russian-soldiers-in-ukraine/26551473.html http://www.rferl.org/content/russian-soldiers-in-ukraine/26551473.html Tue, 26 Aug 2014 15:27:40 +0000 Ukraine noreply@rferl.org (Glenn Kates) Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said he is ready to discuss various options to reach a peaceful settlement in Ukraine, but wants effective border controls and an end to army supplies to separatists. Poroshenko spoke at a talks in Minsk, Belarus, that included Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Reuters) http://www.rferl.org/media/video/poroshenko-russia-ukraine-minsk/26551433.html http://www.rferl.org/media/video/poroshenko-russia-ukraine-minsk/26551433.html Tue, 26 Aug 2014 15:27:00 +0000 News Clips Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin shook hands at the start of multilateral talks in Minsk on August 26. It was the first time the two presidents have met since June. Poroshenko told summit host Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka that he hoped a peace agreement would come out of the meeting. (Reuters) http://www.rferl.org/media/video/poroshenko-putin-russia-ukraine-minsk/26551285.html http://www.rferl.org/media/video/poroshenko-putin-russia-ukraine-minsk/26551285.html Tue, 26 Aug 2014 14:13:00 +0000 News Clips Large columns of smoke rose from locations around the city of Novoazovsk in southeastern Ukraine after what residents said was an artillery barrage on August 26. Novoazovsk lies on the Azov Sea on the road that runs from Russia to the major Ukrainian port of Mariupol. (AP) http://www.rferl.org/media/video/ukraine-border-shelling/26551215.html http://www.rferl.org/media/video/ukraine-border-shelling/26551215.html Tue, 26 Aug 2014 13:36:00 +0000 News Clips Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says he will work on an urgent cease-fire plan aimed at defusing the separatist conflict in the country's east following talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-russia-minsk-talks-start/26551135.html http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-russia-minsk-talks-start/26551135.html Tue, 26 Aug 2014 12:47:59 +0000 Ukraine noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL) Ukraine's security services have released video purportedly showing Russian servicemen who were captured while fighting alongside pro-Moscow separatists in eastern Ukraine. Officials said the Russian paratroopers had crossed into Ukrainian territory from Russia in a column of several dozen armed infantry vehicles. (Reuters) http://www.rferl.org/media/video/russia-ukraine-soldiers-prisoners/26551023.html http://www.rferl.org/media/video/russia-ukraine-soldiers-prisoners/26551023.html Tue, 26 Aug 2014 12:00:00 +0000 News Clips Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is expected to take part in talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, at a summit in Belarus’s capital, Minsk, on August 26. http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-poroshenko-dissolves-parliament/26549772.html http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-poroshenko-dissolves-parliament/26549772.html Mon, 25 Aug 2014 19:32:03 +0000 Ukraine noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL) From Sevastopol to the Kremlin, the Ukrainian flag was flying in some unexpected places this Ukrainian Independence Day weekend. http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-independence-day-flag-unexpected-place/26549207.html http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-independence-day-flag-unexpected-place/26549207.html Mon, 25 Aug 2014 12:35:20 +0000 Ukraine http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-independence-day-flag-unexpected-place/26549207.html#relatedInfoContainer Ukraine says border guards have attacked a column of armored vehicles it says entered its territory from Russia, as Moscow announced its intention to send a second aid convoy into the country. http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-russia-mariupol-convoy/26548997.html http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-russia-mariupol-convoy/26548997.html Mon, 25 Aug 2014 11:08:09 +0000 Ukraine noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL) The parading of Ukrainian prisoners of war through the streets by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine disgusted many. But does it constitute a violation of international law? http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-pow-march-war-crime/26548667.html http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-pow-march-war-crime/26548667.html Mon, 25 Aug 2014 07:35:27 +0000 Ukraine noreply@rferl.org (Carl Schreck) A new 24-hour English-language television channel called “Ukraine Today” began satellite and internet broadcasting from Kyiv on August 24 with news stories about developments in Ukraine. http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-today-new-tv-channel-launched/26547921.html http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-today-new-tv-channel-launched/26547921.html Sun, 24 Aug 2014 20:40:22 +0000 Ukraine noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL) Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine have paraded dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war through the center of Donetsk, mocking celebrations in Kyiv marking Ukraine's 23 years of independence from the former Soviet Union. http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-donetsk-pows-parade-independence-day/26547822.html http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-donetsk-pows-parade-independence-day/26547822.html Sun, 24 Aug 2014 16:27:43 +0000 Ukraine noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL) Ukraine is marking 23 years of independence amid the ongoing crisis in the east of the country. http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-/26547277.html http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-/26547277.html Sun, 24 Aug 2014 04:33:43 +0000 Ukraine German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for all parties involved in the hostilities in eastern Ukraine to agree to a cease-fire during a visit to Kyiv on August 23. http://www.rferl.org/content/merkel-calls-for-cease-fire-ukraine/26546620.html http://www.rferl.org/content/merkel-calls-for-cease-fire-ukraine/26546620.html Sat, 23 Aug 2014 13:43:00 +0000 Ukraine noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL) U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have expressed alarm at Russian moves inside Ukraine. http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-ukraine-merkel-obama-/26546078.html http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-ukraine-merkel-obama-/26546078.html Sat, 23 Aug 2014 00:31:27 +0000 Ukraine noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL) Ukrainian daredevil "Mustang Wanted" has claimed responsibility for painting the "seven sisters" spire and raising the Ukrainian flag over Moscow, calling it a "fit of sincere patriotic sentiment" and suggested he would hand himself in in exchange for Russia's release of Ukrainian army pilot Nadya Savchenko. http://www.rferl.org/content/blog/26545503.html http://www.rferl.org/content/blog/26545503.html Fri, 22 Aug 2014 16:41:05 +0000 Transmission http://www.rferl.org/content/blog/26545503.html#relatedInfoContainer Can Russia find a "new normal" in the wake of the Ukraine crisis? http://www.rferl.org/content/podcast-russias-elusive-new-normal/26545477.html http://www.rferl.org/content/podcast-russias-elusive-new-normal/26545477.html Fri, 22 Aug 2014 16:29:27 +0000 The Power Vertical http://www.rferl.org/content/podcast-russias-elusive-new-normal/26545477.html#relatedInfoContainer Ever since a prankster adorned a skyscraper in downtown Moscow in Ukraine's national colors, blue and yellow have been popping up all over the Russian Internet -- raised suspicions over all things yellow and blue in the capital. http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-ukraine-blue-and-yellow-fever/26545433.html http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-ukraine-blue-and-yellow-fever/26545433.html Fri, 22 Aug 2014 15:45:53 +0000 Russia noreply@rferl.org (Tom Balmforth) A Russian military channel has shown footage of a missile attack by Ukrainian forces on civilians in the east of the country. Just one problem, Kyiv says -- the video clip actually shows a failed Russian rocket launch from last year. http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-unspun-russian-rocket-explosion/26545241.html http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-unspun-russian-rocket-explosion/26545241.html Fri, 22 Aug 2014 13:55:56 +0000 Ukraine Unspun http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-unspun-russian-rocket-explosion/26545241.html#relatedInfoContainer Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic says Serbia will not impose sanctions against Russia. http://www.rferl.org/content/serbia-russia-eu-food-ban/26545158.html http://www.rferl.org/content/serbia-russia-eu-food-ban/26545158.html Fri, 22 Aug 2014 13:23:25 +0000 Serbia The first trucks from a convoy which Russia says is carrying humanitarian aid have entered eastern Ukraine after a week waiting for permission to cross the border. Moscow has accused the Ukrainian government of creating "artificial demands" to delay aid deliveries. The convoy is bound for the Luhansk region, where many residents have been without fresh water and regular power supplies. (Reuters) http://www.rferl.org/media/video/russia-ukraine-aid-convoy-trucks/26544868.html http://www.rferl.org/media/video/russia-ukraine-aid-convoy-trucks/26544868.html Fri, 22 Aug 2014 10:40:00 +0000 News Clips Ukraine has accused Russia of invading after an aid convoy crossed its eastern border without permission, but Kyiv said it would allow the trucks safe passage in order to avoid escalation of an ongoing conflict. http://www.rferl.org/content/russian-convoy-rolling-into-ukraine/26544790.html http://www.rferl.org/content/russian-convoy-rolling-into-ukraine/26544790.html Fri, 22 Aug 2014 09:59:34 +0000 Ukraine noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL) Sergei Guriyev, former dean of the prestigious New Economics School in Moscow who left Russia in 2013 amid a crackdown on critics of the Kremlin, discusses Russia's ban on Western food imports and the dangers protectionist policies pose for the country's economic growth. http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-guriyev-economist-interview/26544747.html http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-guriyev-economist-interview/26544747.html Fri, 22 Aug 2014 09:34:28 +0000 Russia A Russian court has ordered house arrest for four Muscovites accused of hanging a Ukrainian flag from a Soviet-era star atop a building near the Kremlin. http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-skyscraper-ukrainian-flag/26544528.html http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-skyscraper-ukrainian-flag/26544528.html Fri, 22 Aug 2014 07:23:25 +0000 Russia noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL's Russian Service) Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said he would ask Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to withdraw pro-Moscow militants from Ukrainian territory. http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-russian-aid-trucks/26543267.html http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-russian-aid-trucks/26543267.html Thu, 21 Aug 2014 14:12:48 +0000 Ukraine noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL) Germany's Angela Merkel heads to Kyiv on August 23. And even while doubts remain about the Kremlin's willingness to make a deal, there's reason to hope a resolution to the Ukraine conflict may finally be at hand. http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-russia-endgame/26543169.html http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-russia-endgame/26543169.html Thu, 21 Aug 2014 13:06:35 +0000 Ukraine noreply@rferl.org (Daisy Sindelar) Moscow's ban on food imports isn't just punishing the West for sanctions, it is also punishing Russian consumers with higher prices. We look at how the bans hurt Russians most. http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-food-ban-explainer/26542681.html http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-food-ban-explainer/26542681.html Thu, 21 Aug 2014 09:08:06 +0000 Russia noreply@rferl.org (Charles Recknagel) Ukrainian border guards are expected to begin checking some of the cargo of a Russian aid convoy on August 21. http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-russia-aid-convoy-/26542249.html http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-russia-aid-convoy-/26542249.html Thu, 21 Aug 2014 02:04:37 +0000 Ukraine noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL) Mark Paslawsky, a U.S. citizen from New Jersey, has been killed while fighting alongside Ukrainian forces battling pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine. http://www.rferl.org/content/mark-paslawsky/26541831.html http://www.rferl.org/content/mark-paslawsky/26541831.html Wed, 20 Aug 2014 22:22:49 +0000 Ukraine noreply@rferl.org (Carl Schreck) Moscow says it is eager to get Russian holidaymakers to the recently annexed Crimean peninsula. But the flood of tourists has proven too much for the Kerch ferry crossing, the only link between Crimea and Russia. http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-crimea-kerch-tourists-long-lines/26541505.html http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-crimea-kerch-tourists-long-lines/26541505.html Wed, 20 Aug 2014 15:02:00 +0000 Russia noreply@rferl.org (Farangis Najibullah) Ever wonder how Western popular culture tends to depict Ukrainians? One Kyiv filmmaker has assembled a compilation of dozens of film and TV references to Ukraine -- and the results aren't pretty. http://www.rferl.org/content/maids-crooks-working-girls-hollywood-portrays-ukraine/26541081.html http://www.rferl.org/content/maids-crooks-working-girls-hollywood-portrays-ukraine/26541081.html Wed, 20 Aug 2014 11:06:54 +0000 Ukraine noreply@rferl.org (Daisy Sindelar) Audacious vandals added a Ukrainian flourish to one of Stalin's "seven sisters" in Moscow's skyline. http://www.rferl.org/content/moscow-ukraine-vandals-skyscraper/26540814.html http://www.rferl.org/content/moscow-ukraine-vandals-skyscraper/26540814.html Wed, 20 Aug 2014 08:53:24 +0000 Transmission http://www.rferl.org/content/moscow-ukraine-vandals-skyscraper/26540814.html#relatedInfoContainer Russia’s Defense Ministry said on August 20 that it is conducting more military exercises in southern Russia as fighting intensified in neighboring Ukraine between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian government forces. http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-military-exercises-missiles-ukraine/26540686.html http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-military-exercises-missiles-ukraine/26540686.html Wed, 20 Aug 2014 07:19:38 +0000 News A satanic church has been founded in Ukraine. Combined with the parliamentary speaker's Protestant faith and the prime minister's alleged ties to Scientology, this may spell doom for Ukraine. Or so says Russian state television. http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-russia-television-yatsenyuk-turchynov-satanists/26539751.html http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-russia-television-yatsenyuk-turchynov-satanists/26539751.html Tue, 19 Aug 2014 15:17:04 +0000 Ukraine Unspun http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-russia-television-yatsenyuk-turchynov-satanists/26539751.html#relatedInfoContainer As fighting continued between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces in the eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk, Kyiv and Moscow announced that the presidents of Russia and Ukraine will meet in Minsk next week. http://www.rferl.org/content/meeting-putin-poroshenko-belarus-customs/26539636.html http://www.rferl.org/content/meeting-putin-poroshenko-belarus-customs/26539636.html Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:39:21 +0000 Russia noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL) ​A spokesman for Kyiv's military says government forces on August 19 were fighting pro-Russian separatists within Luhansk, one of two rebel-held cities in eastern Ukraine. http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-battle-luhansk/26539395.html http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-battle-luhansk/26539395.html Tue, 19 Aug 2014 12:38:21 +0000 Ukraine noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL) Ukrainian soldiers are reinforcing their positions in areas recently reclaimed from pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. With the help of high-tech gadgetry and brute force, government officers claim they have the upper hand. But as VOA's Gabe Joselow reports, outright victory for Kyiv's army will not be easy. http://www.rferl.org/media/video/ukraine-luhansk-separatists-military/26539110.html http://www.rferl.org/media/video/ukraine-luhansk-separatists-military/26539110.html Tue, 19 Aug 2014 09:53:00 +0000 Video Archive A representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross is due in Moscow to discuss with Russian officials the delivery of humanitarian aid to eastern Ukraine. http://www.rferl.org/content/red-cross-official-to-discuss-ukraine-aid-in-moscow/26538254.html http://www.rferl.org/content/red-cross-official-to-discuss-ukraine-aid-in-moscow/26538254.html Tue, 19 Aug 2014 03:19:17 +0000 Ukraine A spokesman for Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council says "dozens" of civilians have been killed in a rebel attack on a convoy of people trying to flee war-torn eastern Ukraine. http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-refugee-convoy-attacked-white-flags/26536479.html http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-refugee-convoy-attacked-white-flags/26536479.html Mon, 18 Aug 2014 14:01:39 +0000 Ukraine noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL) Russian rock musician Andrei Makarevich performed a concert for displaced children in eastern Ukraine last week. Now Russian lawmakers want to punish him for "treachery." http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-marakevich-ukraine-concert-criticism/26536356.html http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-marakevich-ukraine-concert-criticism/26536356.html Mon, 18 Aug 2014 12:48:21 +0000 Russia noreply@rferl.org (Tom Balmforth) Separatists denied they were responsible after authorities in Kyiv blamed them for missiles that struck a convoy of buses carrying refugees from the eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk, leaving many dead, including women and children. http://www.rferl.org/content/article/26536076.html http://www.rferl.org/content/article/26536076.html Mon, 18 Aug 2014 10:19:48 +0000 Ukraine noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service) Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says agreements have been reached with Ukraine and the International Red Cross that clear the way for Russian humanitarian shipments into eastern Ukraine. http://www.rferl.org/content/lavrov-russia-aid-ukraine-convoy-icrc/26535937.html http://www.rferl.org/content/lavrov-russia-aid-ukraine-convoy-icrc/26535937.html Mon, 18 Aug 2014 08:57:22 +0000 Russia noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL) German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has said Ukraine crisis talks in Berlin were "difficult" but made "some progress." http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-ukraine-germany-france-hold-difficult-crisis-talks/26535516.html http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-ukraine-germany-france-hold-difficult-crisis-talks/26535516.html Mon, 18 Aug 2014 00:02:00 +0000 News Tensions were ratcheted up again ahead of major diplomatic talks on eastern Ukraine, as fierce fighting continued and columns of heavy weapons appeared in separatist-held areas. http://www.rferl.org/content/article/26534943.html http://www.rferl.org/content/article/26534943.html Sun, 17 Aug 2014 15:02:24 +0000 Ukraine noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL) The ultra-nationalist newspaper "Zavtra" has been on the margins of Russian political life for decades. But with the Ukraine conflict, it has come out of the shadows and into the spotlight. http://www.rferl.org/content/feature/26534846.html http://www.rferl.org/content/feature/26534846.html Sun, 17 Aug 2014 13:11:12 +0000 Russia noreply@rferl.org (Tom Balmforth) The foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, Germany, and France are to hold talks in Berlin on August 17 to try defuse tensions in Ukraine. http://www.rferl.org/content/ukrainian-russian-foreign-ministers-to-meet-in-berlin/26534493.html http://www.rferl.org/content/ukrainian-russian-foreign-ministers-to-meet-in-berlin/26534493.html Sun, 17 Aug 2014 05:07:09 +0000 News noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL) Slovakia has started testing a reverse gas flow that aims to help supply neighboring Ukraine with badly needed natural gas. http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-slovakia-reverse-flow/26534011.html http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-slovakia-reverse-flow/26534011.html Sat, 16 Aug 2014 17:35:28 +0000 Ukraine Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has tweeted that pro-government forces have captured the town of Zhdanivka, some 40 kilometers northeast of the city of Donetsk. http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-another-town-taken/26534010.html http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-another-town-taken/26534010.html Sat, 16 Aug 2014 17:33:32 +0000 Ukraine