Russian military build-up near Ukraine numbers more than 100,000 troops, EU says
More than 100,000 Russian troops have massed on Ukraine’s border and in annexed Crimea, the office of the EU’s top diplomat Josep Borrell said after...
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Russia and Ukraine to expel a diplomat each as tensions simmer
Russia accused a Ukrainian diplomat on Saturday of trying to obtain classified information and ordered him to leave the country by April 22, prompting a...
New ambassadors from China, Egypt and Ukraine present credentials
President Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday urged China, Ukraine and Egypt to exert pressure on Turkey to alter its intransigent stance on Cyprus and in the...
Limassol’s Athanasios furious with Archbishop of decision on Ukraine Church
Limassol Bishop Athanasios said Monday he was disappointed with the decision taken by the head of the Church of Cyprus Archbishop Chrysostomos to recognise the...
Ukrainian surrogates leave babies in north amid Covid confusion
Fourteen Ukrainian surrogate mothers left babies behind in the north as agencies from Ukraine set up shop in legal grey-areas and shoddy, make-shift hospitals, international...
Shots heard as bus passengers taken hostage in western Ukraine (update)
A man who said he was armed with weapons and explosives seized control of a bus in the western Ukrainian city of Lutsk on Tuesday...
Three die, hundreds evacuated in Ukraine flooding
Torrential rains in Ukraine have killed three people, forced hundreds from their homes and cut off villages in western regions, authorities said on Wednesday. While...
One killed as Ukraine accuses Russian forces of heavy shelling in east
One Ukrainian soldier was killed and four injured on Tuesday as Kiev accused Russian forces of using heavy shelling to try to breach Ukrainian lines...
Technical problems behind deadly crash of Boeing jet in Iran
A Ukrainian airliner fell to earth in a fireball shortly after take-off from Tehran on Wednesday, killing all 176 people on board in a crash...
Trump impeachment hearings focus on Ukraine pressure campaign
The top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, testifying on Wednesday in the first televised hearing of the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, linked him more directly to...
Archbishop calls Russian Patriarch’s attitude to Greek Church ‘unacceptable’
The Patriarch of Moscow’s move to overlook the name of Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens and All Greece during a divine liturgy on Sunday was...
Ukraine: 28 years of struggle for Independence
By Boris Humeniuk ON AUGUST 24, the Ukrainian nation celebrated its main state holiday – Independence Day. On this very day back in 1991 the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (Parliament)...
Ukraine investigates grenade attack on Kiev TV station
Ukrainian authorities said on Saturday they were investigating an attack on a Kiev television station owned by an opposition election candidate, which caused damage but...
Ukraine ex-president Poroshenko summoned for questioning
Detectives from Ukraine’s state investigation bureau have summoned former president Petro Poroshenko for questioning, the bureau said on Thursday. “We confirmed that he will be...
Party of Ukraine’s new president leads parliamentary vote race
A party set up by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who took office in May, is the most popular political movement in the country, according to...
Ukraine Orthodox Church wins independence
The spiritual head of Orthodox Christians worldwide formally granted independence to the Ukrainian church on Saturday, marking an historic split from Russia which Ukrainian leaders...
Ukraine bars entry to Russian men citing invasion fears
Ukraine on Friday banned Russian men of combat age from entering the country, a move introduced under martial law after Russia fired on and captured three...
Putin defiant on Ukraine crisis despite Trump summit talks threat
President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday shrugged off a threat from U.S. President Donald Trump to cancel a meeting with him due to Moscow’s seizure of...
New challenges for Europe in the Black Sea-Azov region
By Boris Humeniuk ON February 2014 Russian armed aggression against the Ukrainian people began, this wasn’t recognized by Moscow yet. What is done by night...
Archbishop sits on the fence in Russian-Ukraine religious fight
The Church of Cyprus on Friday said that it has excellent relations with all Christian Orthodox churches, after reports that the Russian ambassador to Nicosia...