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'What a bad road this is, isn't it?' Says Vitali Platonenko, driving his car over an asphalt road full of holes through a flat suburb of Kiev. 'In some parts it is like Africa again...

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko accuses Russia of wanting to interfere in the presidential elections in Ukraine in late March. According to him, Russian President Vladimir Putin is there...

Two men from Ukraine are suspected of having broken into the computer systems of the American stock market watchdog, the SEC. There they would have thousands of quarterly and annual figures...

While Kiev closed the border yesterday for all Russian men between sixteen and sixty years old, the Kremlin showed that the Russians can not be fooled with the announcement that as from next year foreign warships that want to pass through the Arctic Ocean can only do so. with previous green light from Moscow.

Russian men between sixteen and sixty years are no longer allowed to enter Ukraine. That is what the head of the border guards declared on Friday. In Ukraine, the state of siege is in force following an incident in the Sea of ​​Azov.

Ukrainian ports on the Sea of ​​Azov are actually blocked by Russia. As a result, dozens of ships can not carry out their normal tasks, says Ukrainian minister Volodymyr Omeljan (Infrastructure). The Kremlin denies the accusation.

Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko wants NATO countries to send ships to the Sea of ​​Azov to 'assist Ukraine and provide security.' He said this to the German Bild.

Among the crew of the Ukrainian navy vessels that have been brought in by Russia are some members of the Ukrainian secret service. That has declared that service Tuesday. One of the agents was seriously injured because he was hit by a Russian projectile.

The Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko has asked the parliament to declare the state of siege for a period of sixty days.

The three ships of the Ukrainian navy seized by the Russian army were towed to the port of Kerch in Crimea. Witnesses told the Reuters news agency that the ships are not badly damaged on the eye and that people in navy uniforms stopped at the vessels.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has proposed to declare martial law. Today, Parliament is voting on that plan, following a violent blockade of three Ukrainian navy ships by Russia. Three people were injured.

The Ukrainian navy has accused Russia of shooting some of its ships on the Black Sea. The Ukrainians say that one ship was hit and one crew member was injured.

More than 12,000 people were evacuated Tuesday morning from a large area in the north of Ukraine where explosions occurred in a munitions depot. Until the noon, fires were reported on the spot of disaster, Russian media reported.

Three schoolboys were killed in the east of Ukraine by an explosion of a landmine. It happened in an area where regular battles took place between separatists and Ukrainian troops. The separatist authorities that make up the service reported the deaths on Sunday.

For the time being, Denis Poesjilin is in charge of the Ukrainian separatist republic of Donetsk. The politician follows the pro-Russian separatist leader Aleksandr Zachartsjenko, who recently died in a bomb attack. Pushinil was the chairman of the parliament of the 'People's Republic'.

The leader of the separatists in eastern Ukraine, Aleksandr Zachartsjenko, was probably killed in an attack. That reported local media.

For the duel between Dinamo Kiev and Ajax, the police of the capital of Ukraine arrested nine supporters. They were involved in a fight around a café.

Two activists from the feminist protest group Femen have damaged a carpet of flowers in Brussels. They did so during a protest against the detention of a migrant family in a closed center. A Serbian mother is sitting there with her four children in anticipation of their expulsion to Serbia.

A Georgian judge sentenced former head of state Mikhail Saakashvili to six years in prison for misuse of power. The former president has gone beyond his book during his term of office and is partly responsible for the collapse of a member of the opposition in 2005.

Russian hackers are currently laying the foundation for a major attack on the computer systems of Ukrainian companies. They open up 'backdoors' with malicious software to be able to strike in a coordinated and large-scale way. That says the chief of the police service that deals with cybercrime.

The Ukrainian police arrested 56 members of nationalist groups in the capital Kiev on Sunday after fights. The fighting broke out a few hours before the annual Gay Pride starts, reports the police.

A Ukrainian journalist who would have spied for his homeland has been sentenced to 12 years in prison in Russia. That said the lawyer of the convicted journalist Roman Shushchenko, who shared a photo of his client in a glass cage in the courtroom.

The Russian journalist Arkadi Babchenko, whose death was staged in Kiev to thwart an attack on his life by a hit man, told Thursday that pig's blood and a make-up artist were used to make the shooting seem real. His wife and some close relatives were informed of this.

Moscow is furious at Kiev after the Russian anti-Kremlin journalist Arkadi Babchenko, who was wound up in his apartment in Kiev on Tuesday, yesterday appeared at a press conference about his own death as a dope from a box alive.

The Russian investigative journalist and writer Arkady Babchenko, who was rather critical of, among other things, the annexation of the Crimea and the interference of Russia in the conflict in eastern Ukraine, was liquidated on Tuesday evening in his apartment in Kiev.

Real Madrid has won the Champions League on Saturday for the third year in a row. In Kiev, Zinedine Zidane's team accounted for 3-1 with Liverpool from the Dutch team Virgil van Dijk and Georginio Wijnaldum.

Mistakes, masked hooligans, chaos at the airport, crying fans. The organization of the Champions League final in Kiev is so lousy that UEFA has announced its apologies and wants to prevent repetition, at all costs.

The authorities in the Ukrainian capital Kiev have closed five metro stations in connection with a bomb alert. Further information is still missing.

The researchers of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) have shown Buk missiles on Thursday of a type that has not been used in Russia since 2011. This is what the Russian Ministry of Defense says according to Russian media.

The American computer concern Cisco Systems warns of a Russian cyber attack on Ukraine. According to the company, hackers have infected at least 500,000 routers and storage devices with high-quality hostile software in dozens of countries.