Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said the crisis in his country would remain unresolved unless it received political, economic and military support from allies in Europe and beyond. In an emotional plea at a security conference in Munich, Poroshenko held up the red passports of Russian soldiers

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that sending weapons to help the Ukrainian government fight pro-Russian separatists would not help bring about a solution to the crisis. «I understand the debate but I believe that more weapons will not lead to the progress Ukraine needs. I really doubt that,»

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Saturday that a peace proposal aimed at ending fighting with pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine could work. Asked at the Munich Security Conference whether the initiative presented by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said it was unclear whether a Franco-German initiative for peace in Ukraine that she and President Francois Hollande discussed with Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Friday would succeed. «After the talks yesterday in Moscow that the French president and I had, it is

The leaders of Germany and France proposed at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday to draw up a possible joint document to implement the Minsk agreement and bring an end to the fighting in Ukraine, a German government spokesman said. «On the basis of a proposal by Germany’s

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said that the United States and Europe needed to stand together over Ukraine and accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of calling for peace while rolling his troops through Ukrainian countryside. «This is a moment where the United States and Europe must stand

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk blamed pro-Russian rebels for a deadly attack on a trolleybus in the eastern city of Donetsk on Thursday and said Russia should bear responsibility for the incident. «Today Russian terrorists again committed a terrible act against humanity. Russia bears

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko accused Russia on Wednesday of sending 9,000 troops to back separatist rebels in the east of his country, and the IMF chief said she backed extra financial help for Kiev as the conflict inflicts severe economic damage. Moscow challenged Poroshenko to present

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is cutting short his visit to the World Economic Forum in Switzerland because of the escalation of fighting in eastern Ukraine and will return home on Wednesday, his spokesman, Svyatoslav Tseholko, said. «Due to the complication of the situation, the President

A new round of peace talks on the conflict in eastern Ukraine will be held in Berlin on Wednesday evening with the foreign ministers of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France taking part, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said. «We’re faced with a threatening situation again due to new

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he would seek an immediate ceasefire in east Ukraine at talks in Berlin on Wednesday with the foreign ministers of Ukraine, Germany and France. Lavrov told a news conference a ceasefire agreement reached last September was failing in east Ukraine partly

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Ukraine’s pursuit of NATO membership posed a danger to European security and that the West was using Kiev’s bid to join the Atlantic alliance as a way to fuel confrontation betweenRussia and Ukraine. The Kiev parliament’s renunciation of Ukraine’s neutral

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday Ukraine’s renunciation of its «non-aligned» status was counterproductive and would only boost tensions around the crisis in eastern Ukraine. «It is counterproductive. It will only escalate the confrontation and creates the illusion that it is

Ukraine took a further step toward seeking NATO membership Tuesday when the country’s parliament passed a law abolishing Kyiv’s neutral, non-aligned status. Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to scrap the non-aligned status, which was adopted in 2010 under Russian pressure and had prevented Kyiv from