The Defense Ministry has been increasing the budget for the second consecutive year, from about $909,000 in 2014 to $1.8 billion in 2015

Police in the Ukrainian capital will deploy armored vehicles to patrol the center of the city following Monday's violent riots, an adviser to the interior minister said Tuesday.

On Monday, protesters clashed with police and National Guard troops near the Verkhovna Rada building as MPs initially backed constitutional amendments supposed to give greater powers to Donbas

The United States and the EU are now openly split over the issue whether or not the Minsk II agreement should be implemented in full, US author Eric Zuesse notes.

Moscow considers strict ceasefire regime in Donbass an important step in implementation of Minsk peace accords, Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Tuesday.

Earlier on Tuesday, Oleg Lyashko, the leader of Ukraine’s Radical Party, said his political force was quitting the ruling coalitions in the Verkhovna Rada

The Ukrainian parliament approved President Petro Poroshenko's proposed constitutional amendments on decentralization Monday.

The Russian foreign minister said the clashes wouldn't have happened if the European Union and United States had called on Kiev to fulfill its commitments

Constitutional reform and prospects of granting Donbass autonomy caused resentment among Ukrainian nationalists and pro-Western politicians. Poroshenko does not control Ukrainian right-wing forces and "cannot mobilize the entire front of anti-Russian parties to follow his policy," DWN wrote.