For Anhelina Kalinina, the date of February 17 is burned on her memory. It was the day she left her home in Kyiv to train in Doha expecting to quickly return, just as she always did every few weeks when the grind of the tennis tour allowed.

Ukraine ruled out a ceasefire or concessions to Moscow while Russia intensified an offensive in the eastern Donbas region and stopped providing gas to Finland, as Polish President Andrzej Duda prepared to address the Ukrainian parliament on Sunday.

When President Vladimir Putin launched “a special military operation” on February 24 to “demilitarization” and “denazification” of Ukraine, there were a few to doubt that the military campaign would end in Russia’s favour and it would be over soon.

The Russian Embassy in Dhaka today said that although they appreciated the gesture of Bangladeshi citizens who wanted to volunteer in the Russian military operation in Ukraine, there is no need for it.

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday warned "unfriendly" countries, including all EU members, that they would be cut off from Russian gas unless they opened an account in roubles to pay for deliveries.

A Russian court sentences a Ukrainian journalist, Roman Sushchenko, to 12 years in jail after convicting him of spying for his native Ukraine, his lawyer says, a move likely to further sour ties between Moscow and Kiev.

A Russian dissident journalist who was reported murdered in Kiev dramatically reappears alive and well today in the middle of a briefing about the killing by the Ukrainian state security service.

Ukrainian authorities has evacuated more than 30,000 people from the central Vinnytsia region after a huge arms depot storing missiles caught fire and exploded in what prosecutors say is a possible act of "sabotage".

Ukraine accused the Russian security services Saturday of planning and launching a cyberattack that locked up computers around the world earlier this week.

A Ukrainian MP alleges that the party of ousted president Viktor Yanukovych secretly paid former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort $750,000 via an offshore shell company.

Dmytro Shchebetyuk, 26, an archer on the Paralympics reserve team and co-founder of "Dostupno UA", a project monitoring accessibility for people with disabilities, agrees that he finds it hard to come back to Ukraine after travelling abroad.

A second half strike by substitute Jakub Blaszczykowski books Poland's ticket into the last 16 at Euro 2016 and sent Ukraine home without a point

Northern Ireland beat Ukraine 2-0 in a Group C at Euro 2016 on Thursday thanks to a powerful header just after half-time from Gareth McAulay and an injury-time goal from Niall McGinn.

Seventeen people are killed in a fire at a building housing elderly people in a village near Ukraine's capital.

Families of victims of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, shot down over Ukraine in 2014, are suing President Vladimir Putin and Russia for Aus$10 million each in the European Court of Human Rights, The Sydney Morning Herald reports today.

An Australian couple whose three children died when Flight MH17 was shot down, have a new daughter.

Ukraine begins the commemorations to mark the 30th anniversary of the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl.

A privately-chartered cargo aircraft has crashed into the Bay of Bengal killing one person. Two others are missing while another has been rescued in critical condition. The crash site is about half a kilometre off Cox’s Bazar’s Nazirtek, at the estuary of the Bay and Bakkhali river.

A senior US Treasury official directly accuses Russian President Vladimir Putin of corruption, in a BBC programme.

Twelve people are feared drowned after their boat capsizes in the Black Sea near the Ukrainian city of Odessa.