11:59
9.4.2014
From our news desk. One more victim of violent antigovernment protests in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, has died in hospital.
The Health Ministry said on April 9 that the death brings to 105 the number of deceased victims of the violence, while 98 others remain hospitalized.
According to the ministry, since February 18, when the stand-off between pro-EU protesters and security forces loyal to ousted President Viktor Yanukovych reached its highest point, 1,737 people have been injured, of whom 1,155 have been brought to hospitals.
The majority of injured and killed individuals were protesters.
The three-month-long protests on Kyiv's Independence Square (Maidan) ended in late February with the ouster of Yanukovych, who is currently out of Ukraine.
According to the ministry, since February 18, when the stand-off between pro-EU protesters and security forces loyal to ousted President Viktor Yanukovych reached its highest point, 1,737 people have been injured, of whom 1,155 have been brought to hospitals.
The majority of injured and killed individuals were protesters.
The three-month-long protests on Kyiv's Independence Square (Maidan) ended in late February with the ouster of Yanukovych, who is currently out of Ukraine.
12:20
9.4.2014
13:17
9.4.2014
And here she is....
14:00
9.4.2014
As the standoff in Donetsk continues, Nikolai Levchenko, a member of Ukraine's parliament from the Party of Regions faction, called on protesters to leave the building.
"I repeat and urge those who had occupied the building and their families and relatives, you must immediately free the building and let the regional parliament get to work. We have to take all possible decisions not to stop the solution of all the social and economic issues in the region. As for political issues we will deal with them within the framework of the law and press the authorities in Kyiv the way they deserve and it will be done with the help of those people who came out to the square today."
"The most important threat is that those people inside the building, according to the law enforcement agencies [have] several dozens of firearms which they captured at a security services building. That weapons must be handed back immediately in order not to threaten the lives of the residents in Donetsk."
"The most important threat is that those people inside the building, according to the law enforcement agencies [have] several dozens of firearms which they captured at a security services building. That weapons must be handed back immediately in order not to threaten the lives of the residents in Donetsk."
14:31
9.4.2014
14:52
9.4.2014
Members of Russia's upper house issued a "declaration of solidarity" with Federation Council Chairwoman Valentina Matviyenko, who was included on U.S. and EU sanctions lists over the annexation of Crimea. RFE/RL's Russian Service asked some of those senators what the statement of solidarity meant to them and how it would affect their travel to Europe and the United States.
15:13
9.4.2014
BREAKING: Russian President Vladimir Putin warns Ukrainian authorities against doing “anything that can't be fixed.” He spoke at a meeting on energy dialog with Ukraine.
15:13
9.4.2014