A Belarusian suspected of aiding the separatists in eastern Ukraine is detained in Odesa:
A report on the destruction done by fighting at a cemetery in Donetsk:
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has slammed the organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest for dropping Russia's entry due to a travel ban by Ukrainian officials, AFP reported on April 14. Russian singer Yulia Samoilova was barred from travelling to this year's event in Kyiv because she had performed in Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, which has been occupied by Russia since 2014. Eurovision officials had sought to have Samoilova perform via video link from Russia or be replaced, but Russia refused those offers.
Rinat Akhmetov, one of Ukraine's wealthiest people, said on April 14 that he will defend his interests in Ukrtelecom, one of the country's major telecom companies, one day after a Kyiv court froze Akhmetov's shares, AFP reports. Prosecutor-General Yuriy Lutsenko said on April 13 that Akhmetov had acquired his Ukrtelecom shares for a nominal price from the government of ousted President Viktor Yanukovych.
Alexander Hug, the deputy chief monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission, said at a press conference in Kyiv that there was a 17 percent decrease in the number of cease-fire violations in Donbas this week as compared to the previous week. He said there was just one civilian fatality this week compared to six the previous week.
A retired man's story of being a victim of apartment scams:
Nearly 1,000 towns and villages have been renamed under Ukraine's decommunization drive: