Dmytro Shurkhalo is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service.
The 1941 Babyn Yar massacre is recognized as one of the worst mass killings of Jews carried out by the Nazi regime in occupied Ukraine. Eighty years on, historians, survivors, relatives are recalling lesser-known local extermination campaigns that took place in towns and villages across Ukraine.
The violent weekend clashes between Ukrainian police and armed fighters from the Right Sector nationalist group have the potential to move the Ukrainian conflict to a new front on its westernmost border. We look at the multiethnic, independent-minded region of Transcarpathia, where some residents' roots lie closer to Hungary, Slovakia, Romania -- and even Russia -- than they do to Ukraine.
Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko has stunned the country by appointing Georgia's former leader to head Odesa Oblast. The move has sparked mixed reactions in the troubled Black Sea region.
Trucks moving from Ukraine to Russia are being subjected to intense searches. The situation seems to be the latest round in growing tensions between the two neighbors.
If Ukraine's opposition forces follow through with their threat to renounce parliamentary seats, the new legislature could be denied a quorum -- possibly forcing new elections.
The long and twisted tale of former Ukrainian presidential bodyguard Mykola Melnychenko just got more twisted. After resisting extradition to Ukraine for more than a year, he suddenly turns up at Kyiv's international airport, where he was promptly arrested.
The Ukrainian government is pushing through a host of measures that opposition parties say will restrict their ability to fully compete in October parliamentary elections. Among them, a law on political rallies to be voted on September 20.
The great gas deal Ukraine supposedly got for extending the lease of Russia's Black Sea Fleet turns out not to have been so great after all.
