The United Nations Human Rights Council will decide on Thursday, whether or not to launch a probe into possible war crimes in the Kyiv region of Ukraine. The probe will be into human rights abuses committed in northern Kyiv by Russian troops who were in the area. In the U.N. Human Rights Council special session […]
According to ABC News, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has survived a Feb. 16, 2016, vote, which would have ousted both he and his Cabinet. President Petro Poroshenko had previously requested the resignation of the prime minister. Prior to the vote in the Verkhovna Rada, Poroshenko called for a “total reformatting” of the Cabinet. Reuters reported that […]
According to Ukrainian officials, a fishing boat flipped over in the Black Sea close to the port city of Odessa. It was initially reported that 12 people are dead, one person is missing, and 23 had been successfully rescued. However, it has now been reported that 16 are confirmed dead, according to the Odessa regional […]
