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Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius is cautious about a truce between the Ukrainian government and pro-Russian separatists, announced on Saturday. The minister welcomed attempts to stop violence but warned that demilitarized buffer zones might lead to a frozen conflict.
The EU on Thursday refused to confirm a report that President Vladimir Putin warned Ukraine's leader that Russian troops could invade Eastern European capitals within two days if ordered.
The high-level visit of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to Washington on 18 September attracted much greater attention in the US capital than any other recent visit of a foreign head of state. His busy schedule saw President Poroshenko in the morning addressing the House of Representatives and ...
In a meeting with Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko, Vladimir Putin allegedly threatened that, if he wanted, the Russian army could occupy Poland and the Baltic states in two days.
"It's a historic moment," was the reaction when Kiev and Brussels ratified the Ukrainian-EU Association Agreement on Tuesday. However, celebration might be somewhat premature, since Moscow, eager to keep Ukraine within its own sphere of influence and away from the EU, has won significant concessions...
Two weeks ago commentators were hyperventilating about a return to the 1930s in Europe, following a Russian invasion-of-sorts into eastern Ukraine.
Ratification of the Ukraine-European Union (EU) association agreement is a symbolic act, however, it is obscured by the decision to postpone enforcement of the free trade agreement amid pressure from Russia and some Ukrainian oligarchs, Lithuanian experts say.
In the last essay of the “Putin’s Russia” series we have reviewed the assumptions that suggest that namely Rogozin’s clan was the main architect and executor behind the Ukraine’s events. Therefore it would be natural to explore which Russian government clans are the most active in opposing the aggre...
Even the groups within Russia's ruling elite that used to advocate open war with Ukraine are warming up to the possibility of peace talks, says political analyst Marius Laurinavičius of the Vilnius-based Eastern Europe Studies Centre.
Ukranian President Petro Poroshenko visits the eastern port of Mariupol Monday in a show of solidarity with its embattled citizens. Mariupol was the scene of fierce fighting before a ceasefire took hold last Friday.
Ukranian President Petro Poroshenko visits the eastern port of Mariupol Monday in a show of solidarity with its embattled citizens.
Explosions and smoke billowing on the horizon in the Ukrainian city of Donetsk.
After the civil war in Syria began, in 2012, Hamas headquarters moved out of Damascus. Political leaders of Hamas are now based in Qatar.
French President François Hollande sits down with Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko at the NATO summit in Wales after he moved to suspend delivery of a warship built for Russia amid the ongoing battle for control for Ukraine's east.
Ukraine has once again indicated it wants to become closer to NATO, says Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius after attending a meeting of the Alliance's member-states with Ukraine's leaders.
NATO has established "a comprehensive and tailored package of measures" to help Ukraine, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Thursday during the NATO summit in Wales.
Residents of Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine, flee into their basements, to escape the artillery shelling above.
The United States and Russia entered a new and more dangerous phase of their pseudo-Cold War this week.
Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko announced on Wednesday he agreed with Russia's Vladimir Putin on a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine. However, he later modified his statement to say that Kiev and Moscow merely agreed on a process to end fighting.
Local residents who live near the airport just outside Donetsk take shelter in a basement. This comes as Ukraine's military said Monday it pulled its forces back from defending the airport - the latest in a string of reverses for Ukrainian forces fighting pro-Russian separatists.
