Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)

The head of the OSCE has been talking to RT, a Kremlin-funded media outlet:

Ukraine's Eurovision winner ties the knot:

Here is today's map of the latest situation in the Donbas conflict zone, according to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry:

Here's another item from our multimedia department to mark the Chernobyl anniversary:

Russian Photographer Recalls Death, Beauty Inside Chernobyl's Fourth Reactor

In 1990, photographer Viktoria Ivleva became the first journalist known to have entered the fourth block of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Soviet Ukraine, where a deadly explosion and fire on April 26, 1986, triggered the world's worst civilian nuclear accident and sent a radioactive cloud drifting across the Soviet Union and Europe. In an interview with RFE/RL's Belarus Service, Ivleva recalls how she managed to sneak into the destroyed reactor with the help of some scientists in 1990 and discusses the eerie ambience there. (CLICK TO OPEN GALLERY)

In 1990, photographer Viktoria Ivleva became the first journalist known to have entered the fourth block of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Soviet Ukraine, where a deadly explosion and fire on April 26, 1986, triggered the world's worst civilian nuclear accident and sent a radioactive cloud drifting across the Soviet Union and Europe. In an interview with RFE/RL's Belarus Service, Ivleva recalls how she managed to sneak into the destroyed reactor with the help of some scientists in 1990 and discusses the eerie ambience there.