The United States has delivered antitank weapons to the Ukraine. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko wrote on Facebook that it is Javelin anti-tank missiles. 'I can confirm that the long-awaited weapon has arrived at the Ukrainian army', said the president, who thanked his American colleague Donald Trump.
Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the possible deployment of blue helmets in Eastern Ukraine. Both were agreed, according to the German government spokesman Steffen Seibert, that the Minsk agreement must be promptly and completely transformed into action to put an end to the conflict in the area.
A Ukrainian court has decided that parliamentarian Nadja Savchenko must remain in custody for 59 days. The authorities accuse her of a plot to overthrow the government, report the Kyiv Post.
The Ukrainian authorities have arrested parliamentarian and former Air Force pilots Nadja Savchenko. Prosecutors accuse her of plotting an attack on parliament. That decided Thursday to withdraw the immunity of Savchenko, after which she was arrested.
The pilot who was accused by Russia of shooting down MH17 was found dead with a gunshot wound in his body, international media reports.
Inhabitants of the Crimea are allowed to vote for the first time in Russian presidential elections. Ukraine reacted angrily and took measures.
A Ukrainian air force pilot and MP was indicted on Thursday. Nadja Savchenko has planned a terrorist attack on the parliament of Ukraine, says justice in Kiev. She would like to throw hand grenades at the government box in the conference room. Then she would have wanted to shoot survivors.
The Russian gas company Gazprom has begun breaking the contracts with the Ukrainian state energy company Naftogaz. Gazprom has stepped to an arbitration court in Stockholm before that, says the deputy chief of Gazprom, Aleksander Medvedev.
A conflict between the Russian gas giant Gazprom and Ukraine may also jeopardize the gas supply to Western Europe, warns Kiev.
The police evicted a tent camp of opponents of the government on Saturday in front of the parliament building in the Ukrainian capital Kiev. Approximately one hundred protesters were arrested or had to show their identity papers, local media reported.
An important cyber criminal has been arrested in Ukraine. Gennadi Kapkanov was arrested Sunday in Kiev, reported the Ukrainian police Monday. He would have led the Avalanche network.
Former Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili is not welcome in Ukraine in the coming years. The border guard service denied him access to the country until February 2021, said the politician's party.
A few thousand supporters of the politician Mikhail Saakashvili, who was deported from Ukraine, went into the streets of the Ukrainian capital Kiev. They demand the resignation of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
Former President Georgia Saakashvili is in the Netherlands. Former Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili was expelled from Ukraine on Monday evening. Saakashvili is married to the Dutch Sandra Roelofs.
Former Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili was taken into the Ukrainian capital Kiev by unknown 'kidnappers'. That reports the official Facebook page of the current Ukrainian opposition leader.
Ukraine has launched an online register containing 75,000 names of fathers who do not pay the maintenance. With the 'wall of shame' the country wants to enforce that they still pay. Those on the list may not travel abroad unless they pay for six months. In case of an entry on the list, the police may confiscate the vehicle of the person in question.
In the Ukrainian capital Kiev, thousands of people have taken to the streets on Sunday to demand the resignation of President Petro Poroshenko. According to Ukrainian media, the leader of the protests is the Georgian former president Mikhail Saakashvili. National demonstrations have been announced before 18 February.
Arkadi Waispapir, known as the last survivor of the prison revolt in the Nazi death camp Sobibor, has died in Ukraine. The Holocaust Memorial Foundation in Berlin said Monday that Waispapir died in Kiev on 11 January. He was 96 years old.
On Thursday, the Ukrainian parliament passed a controversial law that officially declares rebellious Eastern Ukrainian territories and Crimea to Russian territory. People who cooperate with the occupiers are threatened with prosecution. The law affects fundamental rights and resembles the establishment of a kind of war law, while giving special powers to the petitioner, President Petro Poroshenko.
A topless activist from the feminist women's movement FEMEN has defied the cold winter in Ukraine to embarrass US President Donald Trump. The woman was sitting- pee naked- at the American embassy in Kiev.
A Zimbabwean family has been camping for months at a Bangkok airport. The travelers refuse to return to their homeland, but also do not enter Europe. The Thai immigration service informed the BBC that airport staff has taken care of the family.
The Ukrainian chess champion Anna Muzychuk refuses to defend her two world titles, because the World Cup takes place in Saudi Arabia. She would be obliged to wear a robe, and escort outside. 'I do not want to feel like a second-rate being.'
In the crisis area in eastern Ukraine, a start was made on the exchange of prisoners on Wednesday. The Kyiv government and the pro-Russian separatists had agreed, according to Patriarch Kirill of Orthodox Church Christmas Day. The border crossing Majorsk was according to the media the scene of the exchange.
The Ukrainian government and separatist insurgents have agreed to exchange prisoners on Wednesday. Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church announced this after conversations with the leaders of the so-called People's Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk.
The American decision to supply arms to Ukraine is dangerous because it will encourage Kiev to use violence in Eastern Ukraine, Russian officials said Saturday.
The Ukrainian authorities are likely to decide to hand over Georgian former president Mikhail Saakashvili to his former homeland. 'There is an official request from the country. We do not have the right to refuse ', Prosecutor General Yuri Loetsenko told journalists.
Michail Saakashvili is provisionally free again. A female judge in Kiev rejected the request of the prosecutor to put the former president of Georgia under house arrest during the investigation. The motivation for her decision must still come according to the Ukrainian media.
Thousands of people have demonstrated in the capital of Ukraine, Kiev, against the detention of former Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili. 'Many people want change. That is more difficult to realize if Michail is not among us ', said his Dutch wife, Sandra Roelofs, in a speech.
Former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has announced on Friday that he has been arrested again by the Ukrainian authorities.
The Ukrainian authorities are still looking for Georgian former president Mikhail Saakashvili, who escaped from a police van on Tuesday. Dozens of agents attacked a camp a day later with demonstrators inside parliament, but apparently did not meet the politician they were looking for. Saakashvili later said that they had searched the wrong tent.
