British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg joined calls on Sunday for Russia to be stripped of the World Cup in 2018 following the shooting down of flight MH17 over Ukraine.
The United States military’s top commander said during a security summit this week that the ongoing crisis in eastern Ukraine has prompted the Pentagon to revisit old contingency plans unused since the days of the Cold War.
Representatives of Kiev authorities and militia in the southeast of the country agreed to start evacuation of the bodies of those people who died in the crash of the Malaysian airliner
Boeing-777, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Groisman who heads the state committee investigating the air crash said on Sunday.
The downing of a passenger jet in Ukraine is likely to be a turning point in the country's conflict. But which way it turns depends mainly on who carried out the attack and how convincingly it can be proved to the world.
Kiev on Thursday accused a Russian air force jet of shooting down a Ukrainian warplane over its territory Wednesday, ratcheting up tensions along the volatile border between the two ex-Soviet states.
Shares in Russian energy giants Rosneft and OA Novatek fell sharply Thursday after they were targeted by United States sanctions over Ukraine, while markets fell more than 2.5 percent and the ruble plunged against the euro and dollar.
Russia on Thursday said it would not tolerate blackmail from the United States after Washington imposed sanctions on its energy giants Rosneft and OA Novatek over Moscow's actions in Ukraine.
Ukraine's new president has enlisted support from the leaders of Germany and France for a call on Sunday to Vladimir Putin as a ceasefire deadline looms and after pro-Russian rebels released more European monitors.
Tehran, YJC. Zarif says ISIS failure in Syria and its critical situations in Iraq indicate Iran’s true grit, enabling Russia to put more support behind Iran in the country’s nuclear talks.
Russia has provided shelter to over 11,200 refugees from eastern Ukraine at temporary accommodation centers, Russia's Emergencies Ministry spokesman Alexander Drobyshevsky said on Sunday.
Ukraine's new Western-backed president on Friday declared a week-long unilateral ceasefire and unveiled a sweeping plan for curbing a pro-Russian insurgency that killed 13 more soldiers in fierce clashes in the eastern rustbelt.
Ukraine's new President Petro Poroshenko announced on Wednesday that he would soon order a unilateral ceasefire in the separatist east to help end the 10-week pro-Russian insurgency.
An explosion has struck a pipeline near the eastern Ukrainian city of Poltava. Witnesses say the flame is reaching 200 meter high, RIA Novosti reports.
The United States confirmed on Friday reports that a convoy of armoured vehicles including three T-64 Russian tanks moved into Ukraine from Russia and are now in the hands of the rebels.
Marathon talks between Ukraine and Russia to resolve a bitter gas dispute broke up without a deal, EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said, with negotiations set to resume later Tuesday or Wednesday.
Russia awaits for Ukraine's President Pyotr Poroshenko to stop the military operation in the country's east and to facilitate a peaceful settlement of the conflict, Russian Ambassador to
Ukraine Mikhail Zurabov said after Poroshenko's inauguration on Saturday.
Ukraine can settle the conflict inside the country without any foreign mediators, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Saturday after the swearing-in ceremony of Ukrainian
President Pyotr Poroshenko.