The Head of Crimea Sergey Aksenov promised that all those Crimean officials who break the law will be brought to justice.

Two local journalists have been killed near the Donetsk airport by an antitank missile presumably launched by Ukrainian forces.

As noted by the head of the Russian foreign Ministry, the Ukrainian President is "tries to outdo these radicals in their field"

Ukrainian debt bomb ticks closer to a sovereign default, which can now only be defused by Western creditors.

Discrimination and exclusion still characterize the lives of most Roma and Sinti today, reflected in racist violence, unemployment, poverty, illiteracy and high infant mortality. International Roma Day, April 8, is an opportunity to celebrate the unique culture of Europe’s largest ethnic minority, and to take stock of the challenges, both old and new, they face on a daily basis.

Ukrainian government-led forces are holding captive at least 2,000 civilians, representative of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic's (DPR) commission on prisoners of war Lilia Radionova said Saturday.

OSCE’s Chairperson-in-Office and Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić, Secretary General Lamberto Zannier, Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine Ambassador Ertugrul Apakan, and OSCE Envoy to the Trilateral Contact Group Ambassador Heidi Tagliavini, met today in Belgrade to plan further steps in responding to crisis in Ukraine.

Reconstruction of Ukraine's eastern regions will cost the country about $1.5 billion, Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister and Regional Development Minister Hennadiy Zubko said in a televised interview with the national Fifth Channel.

On April 11 and 12 the situation aggravated around Donetsk and in Peski. The intensity of attacks by Ukrainian security forces increased significantly, including the use of heavy guns noted by the OSCE monitoring mission in their reports. Fighting also intensified significantly at Mariupol in the area of Shirokino. Locals reported of massive use of artillery by the security forces. There was a relative lull in Lugansk People's Republic. There were local shootouts on Bakhmutka and near Stanitsa Luganskaya.

A group of electronic reconnaissance satellites disguised as space junk has been disclosed by Russian aerospace defense troops. The devices were put into orbit to spy specifically on facilities on Russian territory.