12:16
27.5.2014
Also speaking in Moscow today, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that "the No. 1 task for Kyiv authorities and their endurance test" following the May 25 presidential election was "putting an immediate end to the use of the army against the public and an end to violence by all sides."
Lavrov also said a visit to Moscow by Petro Poroshenko, who won the presidential election, is "not being considered."
Lavrov also said a visit to Moscow by Petro Poroshenko, who won the presidential election, is "not being considered."
12:15
27.5.2014
Russian President Putin has called for an immediate end to what he called the Ukrainian government's "punitive" military operation in the east.
12:14
27.5.2014
Apologies for the graphic images, but this seems to warrant a post.
12:13
27.5.2014
Donetsk's railway station is operating normally, according to railway officials.
11:09
27.5.2014
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk claims Russia's Gazprom owes Ukraine 2.2 billion cubic meters of natural gas worth around $1 billion following Moscow's annexation of Crimea. Yatsenyuk says that unless Gazprom and Ukraine's Naftohaz settle their dispute over gas supplies by May 29, Ukraine will take Gazprom to international arbitration court in Stockholm.
Also, in an interview today, Gazprom CEO Aleksei Miller says Russia is waiting for Ukraine to pay off $2 billion in gas debt by May 30.
Ukraine has said it wants Russia to return to its previous lower price for gas before it repays its debt. Russia more than doubled the price for its natural gas supplies to Ukraine, to nearly $500, following the ouster of Viktor Yanukovych in February.
10:50
27.5.2014
Important to remember that there are noncombatants dying in eastern Ukraine. This woman was killed instantly by shrapnel at a train station in Donetsk yesterday and her son was injured. It is unverified, but there were indications that she was struck by artillery from Ukrainian government forces.
10:40
27.5.2014
10:37
27.5.2014
AP video from within the ranks of the "Vostok Battalion" trying to seize the airport.
10:35
27.5.2014
