Image source Wikimedia The European Union, United States and their allies have agreed to cut off a number of Russian…
Image source: Getty Images France has intercepted and impounded a Russian-flagged car cargo ship suspected of breaching sanctions imposed because…
One Ukraine’s national guardsman has been killed and about 100 injured in violent protests outside Ukraine's parliament, the interior ministry…
Secretary of State John Kerry flies to Russia to meet President Vladimir Putin during his first visit to the country…
Anti-Maidan protesters rally in Moscow to condemn the "coup" in neighboring Ukraine, a year after the downfall of its pro-Russian…
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Francois Hollande have reached an…
President Vladimir Putin has renewed the blame on the West for the Ukrainian crisis, as he works on Franco-German proposals…
President Barack Obama has signed an executive order banning the export of goods, technology and services to Crimea. The executive…
Rebels in eastern Ukraine are holding elections denounced by the West as "illegitimate". Presidential and parliamentary polls are being held…
President Vladimir Putin and key EU leaders have met Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Milan to discuss the eastern Ukraine…
President Vladimir Putin has ordered thousands of Russian troops stationed near the Ukrainian border to return to their bases, Russian…
Ukraine’s rebel forces are conducting an offensive to capture the government-held airport in Donetsk, officials say. Pro-Russian rebels have tried…
Ukraine will start the withdrawal of heavy weaponry from separatist rebel lines in the east, the military says. The two…
Russia has been criticized by western leaders for its "destabilizing" influence on the crisis in Ukraine, at the start of…
Russia has been given by the European Union one week to reverse course in Ukraine or face new sanctions. European…
Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank Steinmeier has warned that the crisis in eastern Ukraine is "slipping out of control" and needs…
Global oil prices have reached their lowest level in nine months, despite fears that conflicts in Ukraine and Iraq would…
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has ruled out holding fresh talks in Geneva to defuse the Ukraine crisis, unless pro-Russian…
Standard & Poor's has downgraded Russia's rating to “BBB-“from “BBB” - one notch above "junk" status. The move comes as…
Pro-Russian militants in Donetsk say they will not leave the government building there, defying the Kiev authorities and threatening a…