More than half of a convoy of Russian trucks laden with aid has returned to Russia from Ukraine after dropping off its supplies in the besieged Ukrainian city of Luhansk.
As Russia and the West exchange tit-for-tat sanctions on various good and industries, McDonald's has found its Russian operations caught squarely in the crossfire.
In a worrying new development, several dozen trucks from a Russian aid convoy have entered Ukraine without their Red Cross observers and despite the fact that Ukrainian authorities have not checked all of the trucks for contraband.
As the Ukrainian military continues to consolidate its control over eastern Ukraine, an aid convoy sent from Moscow is being checked for contraband by Ukrainian border guards.
Four activists have been arrested for the daring and dangerous act of summiting a Moscow skyscraper, raising a Ukrainian flag and painting half of its yellow star blue.
A U.S. citizen fighting with a volunteer militia on behalf of the Ukrainian government has been killed in fighting in eastern Ukraine.
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel will travel to Kiev, Ukraine as part of a diplomatic push to bring an end to ongoing violence in eastern Ukraine that broke out after the overthrow of Viktor Yanukovich in Feb. 2014.
The Ukrainian government and pro-Russian rebel fighters are each blaming each other for a devastating rocket attack on a convoy of refugees as it tried to escape from the city of Luhansk, which has been the scene of fierce fighting in recent weeks.
The Ukrainian military seized a key city in eastern Ukraine while pro-Russian fighters shot down a Ukrainian fighter jet.
The Ukrainian military said it destroyed a line of armored vehicles as it crossed into Ukraine from Russia, while a nearly 300-truck convoy said to be carrying aid was stalled on the Russian side of the border.
Two commanders of the pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine have resigned from their positions as the Ukrainian military continues to bombard their positions, and has encircled their last two remaining strongholds.
The government of Japan has lodged a formal protest with the government of Russia over Russian war games on islands claimed by both countries, which has prevented both countries from signing of a formal peace treaty after World War II.
A long convoy of nearly 300 trucks has left Moscow for the Ukrainian city of Luhansk, with the ostensible purpose of providing aid and averting a humanitarian disaster.
With violence raging next door in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin made the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan come together to begin negotiations to defuse tensions in the ethnically Armenian, breakaway Azeri region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The Russian government has granted National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden permission to stay in Russia for three more years.
