A convoy carrying people recently evacuated from Wuhan, China, arrived in the Ukrainian town of Novi Sanzhary, where they were due to be held in quarantine, on February 20. A crowd of locals, fearful that the evacuees would bring the coronavirus to the town, clashed with police and tried to block the buses with burning debris
Ukraine’s troubled railway company Ukrzaliznytsia and Deutsche Bahn have signed a 10-year memorandum of cooperation under which the German operator will plan a way forward for the state operator. Ukrainian Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk says it could lead to Deutsche Bahn jointly managing Ukrainian railways
It’s a kind of no-man’s-land: three Ukrainian villages lie beyond their country’s last border post on the road to Belarus, complicating life for the inhabitants who must pass through border checks to enter their own country
An unknown assailant has set fire to a car belonging to RFE/RL correspondent Halyna Tereshchuk on a street in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. According to witnesses, a masked individual approached the car, placed something on the windshield of the vehicle, set fire to it, and then fled. Local police have begun an investigation
Troops and civilians are adjusting to a new reality after forces began disengaging along the line of separation between the Ukrainian military and Russia-backed separatists. Amid hopes for peace there’s also distrust and anxiety
Moscow court has extended the pretrial detention of 6 captured Ukrainian sailors by 3 months…. Thousands of people marched in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg to mark the anniversary of the killing of Russia’s royal family by Bolshevik revolutionaries 101 years ago
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said six of its soldiers were killed in the last week after fresh fighting erupted against Russia-backed separatists in the eastern region of Donetsk