Ukraine's economy has deteriorated since an armed conflict between Kiev and Donbass self-proclaimed people's republics' forces had erupted in April 2014 in the country's southeast. Since the beginning of the conflict, Ukraine’s national currency, the hryvnia, has been devalued almost threefold, and the GDP has been continuously decreasing.

The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine welcomes the new impetus for peace provided by the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) that the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ambassador Martin Sajdik, announced last week in Minsk, said the SMM’s Chief Monitor, Ambassador Ertugrul Apakan, today.

The recent clashes near the building of the Ukrainian parliament show that Ukraine may soon face another violent revolution, Ukrainian political analysts warned.

Azarov said constitutional amendments suggested by Poroshenko "have nothing to do with the real reform of the central power system in Ukraine"

A video has appeared on the internet showing a group of people paying protesters money to demonstrate in front of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament).

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said on Tuesday his government had referred a draft military doctrine to the National Security and Defence Council

A Ukrainian diplomat was expelled from St.Petersburg in response to Kiev's ordering a Russian diplomat out of Odessa.

At least four suspects are under investigation in connection with the bloody clashes near the Verkhovna Rada on Monday.

Alexander Zakharchenko, the leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic in eastern Ukraine, dismissed on Tuesday rumors about plans to conduct a referendum on joining Russia.