A Radio Svoboda video on how low-income families in Ukraine are struggling to make ends meet:
The wife of a Ukrainian cyborg killed at the Donetsk airport tells her story of their life together in this video from Radio Svoboda:
Ukrainian military intelligence officials have detected four Russian reconnaissance planes along the Ukrainian border:
Two men detained in Moscow near the Kremlin for rallying in support of Savchenko:
The Ukrainian security service, SBU, has arrested two Russians for allegedly planning an explosion aboard a plane:
A Radio Svoboda report on Ukraine's IT sector:
A profile of theater director Anton Romanov, who was forced to leave Crimea because of his pro-Ukrainian views:
The parents of Belarusian Mikhail Zhyznevskyi, who was killed by Berkut snipers during Euromaidan in Kyiv, at a commemoration for him today:
From our news desk:
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says his talks with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, on the Syria and Ukraine crises have been “productive.”
“Spoke at length today with FM Lavrov about #Syria and #Ukraine,” Kerry said on Twitter on March 24. “Productive dialogue with important partner.”
Kerry earlier said a "fragile" cessation of hostilities in Syria has "produced some progress," adding that he wanted to see a further reduction as well as greater flows of humanitarian aid.
Lavrov said he intended to discuss "how the international community can assist in the settlement of the Ukrainian crisis."
Kerry will also meet with President Vladimir Putin.
During the talks, the secretary of state is expected to gauge whether the Russian leadership is ready to discuss ways to ease Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power.
On Ukraine, he is expected to call on Moscow to do more to press Russian-backed separatists in the country's east to comply with a cease-fire.
Based on reporting by Reuters, TASS, and Interfax
From our news desk:
The lawyer for a Russian citizen on trial in Ukraine has been found dead.
Ukraine's chief military prosecutor, Anatoliy Matios, said on March 25 that Yuriy Hrabovskyi, who was declared missing early this month, had been shot dead.
Matios said a suspect in the murder had been arrested in the Odesa region on March 24, adding that another suspect was arrested about one week ago.
Hrabovskyi was representing Aleksandr Aleksandrov, who was detained with another Russian citizen -- Yevgeny Yerofeyev -- in eastern Ukraine in May 2015.
Aleksandrov and Yerofeyev are suspected of terrorist activities and fighting alongside Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine’s east.
In a video published after their capture, both men said they were on active duty with the Russian military in eastern Ukraine when they were captured.
However, Moscow contends they were no longer employed by the state.