TEHRAN, Apr 22 - A comedian with no political experience won a landslide victory in Ukraine's presidential election Sunday, exit polls showed, dealing a stunning rebuke to the country's political establishment.
TEHRAN, Apr 21 - Ukraine's president, taking a jab at his comedian challenger, says that laugh could give way to pain for the nation if his rival wins the presidential runoff.
TEHRAN, Apr 14 - The incident in London on Saturday when a man crashed his car into several vehicles parked outside Ukraine’s embassy, including the ambassador’s car, is not treated as terrorism-related, the UK’s Metropolitan Police said.
TEHRAN, Apr 05 - The two remaining candidates in Ukraine's presidential race underwent televised drug and alcohol tests on Friday, capping a week in which they traded jibes in tit-for-tat social media videos and goaded each other to agree to a live policy debate.
TEHRAN, Apr 04- The Ukrainian government has banned all unscheduled direct flights to Russia following a recent visit to Moscow by two opposition politicians.
TEHRAN, Apr 03 - The Ukrainian government has banned state-run gas producer Naftogaz from raising consumer gas prices, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said on Wednesday, a move likely to please voters but disturb the country's creditors.
TEHRAN, Apr 02 - Ukraine's former prime minister, who polled third in the nation's tight race for the presidency, claims that the incumbent president rigged the results in his favor.
TEHRAN, April1-Two NATO ships, frigate Toronto of the Royal Canadian Navy and frigate Santa Maria from the Spanish Navy, arrived in the port of Odessa.
TEHRAN, Mar31-The top three contenders in Ukraine's presidential elections cast their vote on Sunday in a first round which a comedian, who happens to play a fictional president in a popular TV series, is tipped to win.
TEHRAN, Mar 27 -Comic actor Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a political novice who plays a fictional president in a popular TV series, has maintained a strong lead in Ukraine's presidential election race, according to an opinion poll.
TEHRAN, Mar 08 - The ballot for Ukraine's presidential election will include 39 candidates, a marginally slimmer field after five contenders dropped out in recent days.
TEHRAN, Feb 18 - Ukraine's foreign minister asked the European Union on Monday for hundreds of millions of euros in loans and aid for infrastructure and businesses in its troubled east and south, regions he said Russia was trying to "suffocate".
TEHRAN, Feb 06 - Ukraine's exiled former president, who was found guilty of fueling a deadly separatist conflict in the east, is warning of possible vote rigging in the country's upcoming presidential election.
TEHRAN, Feb 04 -A Ukrainian comedian who plays the country's president in a TV series is currently the favorite to take on the real-life role in this spring's election, recent polls show.
TEHRAN, Jan 29 - Ukraine's pro-Western President Petro Poroshenko launched his bid for a second five-year term in front of thousands of supporters on Tuesday, ahead of a tight election race in March.
TEHRAN, Jan 19 -Germany has called on both Russia and Ukraine to work together to resolve their differences over the long-running conflict in eastern Ukraine and defuse recent tensions that erupted following the seizure of three Ukrainian vessels in Russia’s territorial waters in the Sea of Azov.
TEHRAN, December 26 - Martial law, imposed on Nov. 25 in some Ukrainian areas after Russia captured three Ukrainian ships, expired on Wednesday, President Petro Poroshenko told the country's security council.
TEHRAN, December 24 -The UK has reaffirmed its support for Ukraine in the face of “Russian aggression,” as Moscow and Kiev continue to trade barbs over political and territorial disputes.
TEHRAN, December 23 - The United States is planning to add Ukraine into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as part of its plan to encircle Russia, an American political analyst says.
TEHRAN, December 22 -The United States says it will provide an additional $10 million in military aid to Ukraine to boost its naval capability, after Russia seized three Ukrainian navy ships off the coast of Crimea last month.