
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was in Ukraine Thursday to discuss the peace process in the east of the country as well as the controversial expansion of a Russian gas pipeline. The one-day visit is her first since the signing of the Minsk accord in early 2015, which has so far ...

Four Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and three wounded in the latest spike in violence in the country’s conflict-torn east, the defense ministry said on Thursday. Over the past 24 hours two soldiers have been killed in shelling and two more received fatal injuries during a mine explosion, the ministry ...