The body of a kidnapped journalist who took part in protests againstUkraine's president Viktor Yanukovych has been found dumped in a forest 60 miles outside the capital Kiev.
Vasily Sergiyenko – a local journalist and a member of the rightwing Svoboda party – was abducted from his home in the city of Korsun-Shevchenkivskiy on Friday evening Three men reportedly bundled him into a white Lada car, which neighbours had spotted previously.
Authorities in Ukraine say the body of a kidnapped journalist who played an active role in protests that led to President Viktor Yanukovych's ouster in February has been found in a forest some 150 kilometers (60 miles) outside the capital of Kyiv
KOBLENZ, Germany — Shot twice at the bloody denouement of Ukraine’s revolution, Yuri Marchuk spends his days in the most pristine of hospital wards, gazing out the window at this orderly German city, churning images of battle through his mind.
Foreign hospitals continue providing medical treatment for 173 Ukrainians injured during protests in Independence Square (Maidan) in central Kyiv.
Controversy surrounds the mass shooting of protesters in Kiev which precipitated the downfall of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. It is clear that firearms were used by government security forces, and possibly by some opposition activists, but the identity of the snipers said to have caused many of the deaths is disputed.
Ukraine's interim authorities on Thursday accused fugitive President Viktor Yanukovych of ordering snipers to open fire on protesters and getting help from Russian security agents to battle his own people, but they provided no evidence directly linking him to the bloodbath in Kiev that left more than 100 people dead.
The extreme nationalist group Right Sector [Pravy Sector] will never be the same again, though what exactly it was and who was behind at least some of the events of the last week remain unclear. Since the still largely unreformed police have whitewashed their officers over the violent death in a police raid of one scandalous member, Oleksandr Muzychko, and have detained a number of others, it seems worth articulating the questions, if answers are still thin on the ground.
Actions of the so-called "titushky" and other gang formations that attacked unarmed protesters on February 18-20 this year were commanded by head of Kontakt Media-Holding Viktor Zubrytsky, Interior Minister of Ukraine Arsen Avakov said, reporting on the results of an inquiry.
Ukraine on Thursday accused both ousted pro-Kremlin president Viktor Yanukovych and Russian security agents of being responsible for February unrest in Kyiv that claimed nearly 90 lives.
All the documents that confirm the preparations for the Boomerang plan, which resulted in the shooting of unarmed citizens in Kyiv's downtown, have been destroyed, head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) internal security directorate Volodymyr Hryniak has reported.
More than 20 people were involved in an assault on a reporter in Kyiv in February in which the journalist was murdered, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said on Thursday.
Ukrainian authorities have detained 12 people in connection with the sniper shootings that left dozens dead during anti-government protests in February on Kyiv's Maidan Square.
A total of 128 people hurt during the clashes in central Kyiv since February 18 remained hospitalized as of Thursday morning, the press service for the Ukrainian Health Ministry has reported.
Moscow - The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has refused to comment on the statement of Ukrainian Security Service Head Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, who did not rule out the involvement of Russian special services in events on Kyiv's Maidan in February 2014.
Chief of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Valentyn Nalyvaichenko has said that there is every reason to believe that a group of employees of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) participated in planning and implementing measures on the so-called anti-terrorist operation in Kyiv during mass protests in February 2014.
The employees of the SBU's Alfa special police force who participated in the so-called "anti-terrorist operation" on Independence Square in Kyiv are currently hiding in Crimea, Head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Valentyn Nalyvaichenko has said.
Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Chief Valentyn Nalyvaichenko has said that an anti-terrorist operation announced by the former leadership of the country in February 2014 was in fact the organization of mass killings of people during protests in central Kyiv, and that SBU places all the blame for what was happening onto then President Viktor Yanukovych.
Seventeen protesters were killed by employees of the Berkut special police force on Instytutska Street in Kyiv, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov has said.
Twelve former employees of the Berkut special police force have been detained on suspicion of being involved in the killing of protesters in the center of Kyiv on February 20, Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office spokesman Vasyl Zoria has said.
Public joint-stock company Kyivmiskbud holding (Kyiv), one of the largest constructors in Ukraine, has started external construction and assembly work as a part of the restoration of the Trade Union House, which was gutted by fire during the protests on Maidan in Kyiv, reads a posting on the holding's Web site.