Two civilians had been severely wounded in shelling of the town of Pervomaisk from artillery weapons, a spokesman for the LPR People’s Militia says

It is necessary to work out a complex of measures that will allow people staying in uncontrolled territory to receive social payments, the human rights envoy for Ukraine's parliament insists

Russia is among the thirteen countries that has remitted money for assistance to Ukrainians fleeing their homes

Gazprom head Alexey Miller said that Ukraine's national oil and gas company Naftogaz owes $212 million for Russian gas deliveries to the conflict-torn region of Donbass.

Chairman of the Russian Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation said that Ukraine’s proposed constitutional amendments on decentralization lack measures to end the conflict in the southeast of the country.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said that number of government troops deployed in eastern Ukraine has reached 60,000 servicemen.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Vladimir Putin gave his explanation to Barack Obama of false reports often voiced by the West of Russian troops supposedly in Ukraine.

The recent US assessment of human rights situation in Ukraine completely disregards the scale of humanitarian and human rights crisis in the country, which followed the US-backed coup in Kiev in 2014, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Friday.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister said that establishment of an international tribunal on last year's downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine would be untimely and counterproductive.

Washington is exploiting the conflict in Ukraine to isolate Russia from Europe and assert its interests in the European Union, a member of the European Parliament from Austria Harald Vilimsky told Sputnik on Friday.

According to Ukrainian Finance Minister, Kiev hopes to receive another tranche of $1.7 billion under the International Monetary Fund’s Extended Fund Facility arrangement.