Sloviansk, the headquarters of the pro-Russia separatists controlling large pockets of eastern Ukraine, is on the cusp of descending into brutal street warfare.
Missing militia men cause chaos. Watch our latest Russian Roulette dispatch.
A group of international military observers who were detained last week by pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine have been released today, officials said.
In this dispatch, Simon Ostrovsky tells the story of his abduction in eastern Ukraine, his days in captivity, and why he thinks he was targeted by “mayor” Ponomarev.
Just an hour before he was kidnapped by pro-Russia forces, VICE News correspondent Simon Ostrovsky interviewed two Russian Cossacks in Kramatorsk. One of the men showed Simon his Russian passport, which was the first confirmation VICE News has seen of Russians working with the separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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As tensions remain high in eastern Ukraine, pro-Russia separatists detained three Ukrainian State Security Service agents in Horlivka this weekend, while a masked pro-Russia militia seized a television station in Donetsk.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin introduced a bill into the Russian legislature Monday that seeks to create a special gambling zone in Crimea.
As tension mounts by the day, there is hardly a sector of Ukrainian society that has not been affected by the ongoing crisis in the country — and it turns out, not even Ukraine’s zoo animals are immune to the effects of political upheaval.
An Easter truce between pro-Russia activists and pro-Ukrainian groups was shattered today when a deadly gunfight erupted near the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk.