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Ukraine says Russia wants to split nation, calls for more arms

Oleksandr Kozhukhar and Pavel Polityuk, Reuters
Posted at Mar 27 09:39 PM

Russia wants to split Ukraine into two, Ukraine's military intelligence chief said on Sunday, vowing "total" guerrilla warfare to prevent a carve-up of the country. Read more »

Nestle to suspend 'vast majority' of sales in Russia

Richa Naidu, Reuters
Posted at Mar 24 05:51 AM

Nestle is to halt the sale of a wide range of brands in Russia, including KitKat chocolate bars and Nesquik. Read more »

Mariupol says thousands deported from besieged Ukrainian city

Pavel Polityuk, Reuters
Updated as of Mar 20 08:04 PM

(UPDATE) Local authorities in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol said thousands of residents there had been taken by force across the border to Russia. Read more »

Schwarzenegger tells Russian people their leaders are lying to them

Reuters
Posted at Mar 18 07:00 AM

Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger told the Russian people that they are being fed misinformation about their country's assault on Ukraine. Read more »

Russian forces kill 7 civilians in evacuation convoy: Ukraine

Pavel Polityuk and Natalia Zinets, Reuters
Posted at Mar 13 07:56 AM

Ukraine accused Russian forces on Saturday of killing seven civilians in an attack on women and children trying to flee fighting near Kyiv. Read more »

Russia rejects Ukraine charge of genocide as invasion enters third week

Reuters
Updated as of Mar 10 05:11 PM

Russia's war in Ukraine entered the third week on Thursday with none of its stated objectives reached despite thousands of people killed. Read more »

More than 1 million children fled Ukraine since start of Russian invasion: UNICEF

Reuters
Posted at Mar 10 08:03 AM

More than 1 million children have fled Ukraine to neighboring countries in the less than two weeks since Russia started its invasion of Ukraine. Read more »

Poland 'ready' to hand its MIG-29 jets to US

Reuters
Posted at Mar 09 07:58 AM

Poland is ready to deploy all its MIG-29 jets to Ramstein Air Base in Germany and put them at the disposal of the United States. Read more »

Russian troops enter strategic Ukrainian port of Kherson

Reuters
Posted at Mar 03 02:40 PM

Russian troops were in the center of the Ukrainian port of Kherson on Thursday after a day of conflicting claims over whether Moscow had captured a major urban center for the first time. Read more »

LOOK: Sean Penn joins Ukraine exodus to Poland on foot

Steve Gorman, Reuters
Updated as of Mar 02 01:46 PM

Days after visiting the Ukrainian capital Kyiv to film scenes for his documentary, Hollywood actor-director Sean Penn found himself among thousands of refugees fleeing to Poland, joining the exodus on foot. Read more »

Ukraine calls for no-fly zone to stop Russian bombardment

Reuters
Posted at Mar 01 08:07 AM

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged the West to consider a no-fly zone for Russian aircraft over Ukraine on Monday after Moscow bombarded the country's second largest city Read more »

Ukraine vows to fight on as Russian banks expelled from global system

Maria Tsvetkova and Aleksandar Vasovic, Reuters
Posted at Feb 27 07:23 AM

A defiant President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukrainian forces were repelling Russian troops advancing on Kyiv. Read more »

Pope called Ukraine president; expressed 'profound pain'

Reuters
Posted at Feb 27 07:21 AM

Pope Francis called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Saturday and expressed his "most profound pain" for the country's suffering. Read more »

TIMELINE: Ukraine's turbulent history with Russia

Reuters
Posted at Feb 25 02:36 PM

Here is a timeline of the main events in Ukraine's political history since it won independence from Moscow in 1991. Read more »

US ‘increasingly concerned’ by Russian troop build-up on Ukraine border

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 09 03:02 AM

The United States is "increasingly" worried by fighting between Moscow-backed separatists and Ukrainian troops, the White House said Thursday.   Read more »

Recording shows Iran knew immediately it had shot down plane -Zelenskiy

Reuters
Posted at Feb 03 08:36 PM

A leaked audio recording of an Iranian pilot talking to the control tower in Tehran shows that Iran knew immediately it had shot down a Ukrainian airliner last month, Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. Read more »

White House officials fault Trump's Ukraine call

Michael D. Shear, The New York Times
Posted at Nov 20 12:22 PM

Two senior national security officials at the White House challenged US President Donald Trump’s description of his call with the Ukraine president as “perfect,” testifying Tuesday about how concerned they were as they listened in real time to Trump appealing for investigations into a political rival. Read more »

Giuliani waged campaign of 'lies' against envoy to Ukraine, says US diplomat

Patricia Zengerle and Richard Cowan, Reuters
Posted at Nov 08 09:08 AM

WASHINGTON - A top U.S. diplomat told congressional investigators that President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani conducted a "campaign full of lies" against the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine before she was recalled from her post, according to a transcript of his testimony released on Thursday. Read more »

Ukraine envoy testifies Trump linked military aid to investigations, lawmaker says

Michael D. Shear and Nicholas Fandos, The New York Times
Posted at Oct 23 07:48 AM

President Donald Trump held up vital security aid for the Ukraine and refused a White House meeting with Ukraine’s leader until he agreed to make a public pronouncement pledging to investigate Trump’s political rivals, the United States’ top diplomat in Ukraine told impeachment investigators privately Tuesday.   Read more »

In 14-hour news conference, Ukraine's leader says was not blackmailed by Trump

Natalia Zinets and Pavel Polityuk, Reuters
Posted at Oct 11 09:27 AM

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday he would be ready to open a probe into any Ukrainian interference in the 2016 US presidential election but denied that President Donald Trump had tried to blackmail him. Read more »