Russian energy giant Gazprom says it is cutting gas supplies to Ukraine following Kyiv’s failure to meet a Monday deadline to pay nearly $2 billion of its outstanding debt.Gazprom says Ukraine must now pre-pay for any natural gas after missing the deadline.Also Monday, Gazprom filed a lawsuit in a Stockholm arbitration court to try […]
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has ordered officials to create corridors to allow people in eastern Ukraine to escape areas that have seen months of fighting and safely move to other parts of the country. The president announced the move Tuesday, saying he wanted to “avoid new victims” as Ukrainian forces battle to regain control of […]
Twelve Ukrainian troops were killed when separatists shot down a Ukrainian military helicopter, only one person survived the crash. Among those killed was General Serhiy Kulchytskiy of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry. Kulchytskiy is a former member of the Russian military and in charge of training for the Ukrainian National Guard. The helicopter was taken down […]
At least 13 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in another 17 wounded one pro-Russian separatists carried out an attack on a military checkpoint in the Eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region using mortars, grenade launchers, and heavy automatic weapons. Another Ukrainian serviceman was killed overnight in the neighboring Luhansk region during a strike on a military convoy should. […]