A large number of Russian troops has crossed the border into Ukraine and seized control of a coastal town where the Ukrainian Army recently destroyed a column of tanks and armored vehicles.
Hopes any progress toward peace was made from the meeting between Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin disappeared when the Ukrainian military accused Russia of sending troops into Ukrainian territory for the second time in a week.
The Ukrainian government has released video footage of 10 men it claims are Russian soldiers, just hours before the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was scheduled to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin at a regional meeting in Minsk, Belarus.
The Ukrainian government has claimed that Russia sent another column of armored vehicles into Ukraine, while Russia announced plans for a second convoy of aid.
More than a month after Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashed into a field in eastern Ukraine, the Malaysian victims have been returned to Malaysia for burial services.
More than half of a convoy of Russian trucks laden with aid has returned to Russia from Ukraine after dropping off its supplies in the besieged Ukrainian city of Luhansk.
In a worrying new development, several dozen trucks from a Russian aid convoy have entered Ukraine without their Red Cross observers and despite the fact that Ukrainian authorities have not checked all of the trucks for contraband.
As the Ukrainian military continues to consolidate its control over eastern Ukraine, an aid convoy sent from Moscow is being checked for contraband by Ukrainian border guards.
Four activists have been arrested for the daring and dangerous act of summiting a Moscow skyscraper, raising a Ukrainian flag and painting half of its yellow star blue.
A U.S. citizen fighting with a volunteer militia on behalf of the Ukrainian government has been killed in fighting in eastern Ukraine.
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel will travel to Kiev, Ukraine as part of a diplomatic push to bring an end to ongoing violence in eastern Ukraine that broke out after the overthrow of Viktor Yanukovich in Feb. 2014.
The Ukrainian government and pro-Russian rebel fighters are each blaming each other for a devastating rocket attack on a convoy of refugees as it tried to escape from the city of Luhansk, which has been the scene of fierce fighting in recent weeks.
The Ukrainian military seized a key city in eastern Ukraine while pro-Russian fighters shot down a Ukrainian fighter jet.
The Ukrainian military said it destroyed a line of armored vehicles as it crossed into Ukraine from Russia, while a nearly 300-truck convoy said to be carrying aid was stalled on the Russian side of the border.
Two commanders of the pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine have resigned from their positions as the Ukrainian military continues to bombard their positions, and has encircled their last two remaining strongholds.
09 Aug '24 16:35PM
