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Archbishop Borys Gudziak, one of nearly 50 Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishops in Rome this week, says he and his fellow prelates are pushing harder than ever for a papal visit to Ukraine – a trip that he said is crucial to ending conflict in the country, but which is being held up by fear of

Award-winning Russian author Zakhar Prilepin said the unit in which he served "killed many people" and that he has no regrets having fought in the Donbas w

Angry Ukrainians took to the streets and blocked roads Tuesday as hundreds of thousands remain without heating at a time when temperatures are plunging b

A historic council of Orthodox bishops in Kiev created a new Ukrainian church independent from Russia, President Petro Poroshenko announced on Saturday. The global network of Agence France Presse covers 151 countriesIf you have news to share or a question

The U.S. House of Representatives has again called on Russia to end its hostilities against Ukraine. The lawmakers Tuesday passed a resolution reaffirming their "commitment to Ukraine's independence and security."The resolution came after Russ

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Ukraine has released what it says is the exact location near Crimea where its vessels were fired on and seized by Russia over the weekend, showing that they were in international waters

Ukraine is responsible for instigating a dispute with Russia in which the federation seized several Ukrainian ships in the Black Sea, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday.

The Russian Orthodox Church has decided to end its relationship with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in protest over its endorsement of Ukraine's request for an autocephalous, or independent, church.

Ukraine has begun joint military exercises with 10 NATO countries in western Ukraine amid ongoing tensions with Russia over Moscow's illegal annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine between government forces and

John Bolton joined independence day celebrations in Kiev.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump discussed the possibility of a referendum in separatist-leaning eastern Ukraine during their Helsinki summit, Russia's ambassador to the U.S. said Friday.Ambassador A

A major wildfire is sweeping through the Chernobyl nuclear disaster area. The authorities have deployed dozens of fire trucks as firefighting aircraft bombard the radioactive exclusion zone with massive amounts of water.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — An international team of prosecutors has identified the Russian military unit that supplied an antiaircraft missile system used to shoot down a civilian airliner over Ukraine four years ago, adding specificity to its earlier finding that Russia was to blame.

The Trump administration plans to sell Ukraine 210 anti-tank missiles to help it defend its territory from Russia, in a major escalation of U.S. lethal assistance to Ukraine's military.

Key affected populations in middle-income countries are hardest hit by global funding cuts, but Ukraine has made a bold move to fund its own response for people who inject drugs.