Arseniy Yatsenyuk
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yatseniuk resigns MINSK, Belarus — Ukraine’s embattled prime minister announced Sunday that he is resigning, opening the way for the formation of a new government to end a drawn-out political crisis. In...
Investigators finally reach MH17 crash site ROZSYPNE, Ukraine — As mortar fire landed nearby, an international team of investigators finally reached the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 wreckage site Thursday and got their first look at a...
Ukrainian prime minister resigns amid political turmoil KIEV, Ukraine — Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced his resignation Thursday, opening the way for new elections that would reflect the country’s starkly changed political scene after the ouster...
Pro-Russians storm Odessa police station, free loyalists Pro-Russian militants stormed a Ukrainian police station in Odessa on Sunday and freed nearly 70 fellow activists as the country’s leaders lamented a police force they said was widely undermined...
Pro-Russian separatists demand independence from Ukraine Pro-Russian separatists who seized a provincial administration building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Monday proclaimed the region an independent republic in a move echoing the run-up to...
Crimea votes on whether to secede from Ukraine SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine — In a referendum watched closely around the world, residents of Ukraine’s strategic Crimean Peninsula voted Sunday on whether to demand greater autonomy or seek to join Russia....
Obama meets with Ukraine leader WASHINGTON — President Obama sat side by side with Ukraine’s new acting prime minister Wednesday and declared the country can’t operate with the “barrel of a gun” pointed at it....
Obama to host new Ukrainian PM in jab against Russia WASHINGTON — In a diplomatic dig at Russia, President Obama is hosting the new Ukrainian prime minister at the White House, a high-profile gesture aimed at cementing the West’s allegiance to...
Crimea moves step closer to becoming independent state KIEV, Ukraine — The Crimean parliament voted Tuesday that the Black Sea peninsula will declare itself an independent state if its residents agree to split off from Ukraine and join...