UKRAINE CRISIS

European foreign ministers gather for exceptional meeting on Thursday to discuss new Russia sanctions.

A Dashboard camera caught a moment when shells hit a residential area in Ukraine's strategic port of Mariupol on Saturday (January 24).

Eastern Ukraine's main rebel leader says he has launched an offensive against the government-held port city of Mariupol

Security forces in Mariupol in eastern Ukraine remain on high alert over raging fighting.

Ukrainian POWs were paraded at the scene of a bus attack that killed at least eight in Donetsk.

US Secretary of State John Kerry accused pro-Russian separatists on Wednesday (January 21) of attempting a "blatant land grab" during fresh fighting in eastern Ukraine.

A city bus was hit by an artillery shell in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, killing up to 13 people.

Russian-backed rebels re-take control of separatist stronghold strategic Donetsk airport terminal.

Civilian victims in deadly attack in Ukraine restive region after diplomats agreed artillery withdrawal.

Russian foreign ministry Sergey Lavrov says withdrawal of heavy weapons could ease peace process.

Aerial footage shot by a drone and posted to a social media website on Friday (January 16) shows terminal buildings and other structures at Donetsk International Airport in a state of complete destruction after months of conflict there.

Over one million Ukrainians driven from homes by conflict between separatists and Kiev government.

People living near the international airport in the rebel-controlled city of Donetsk faced the destruction wrought on their neighbourhood after heavy overnight shelling.

Russian president says he wasn't invited to 70th anniversary of death camp liberation ceremony.

Ukraine is also seeking urgent financial help as peace talks hope fades.

Refugees from Yasinovataya beaten for carving initials of Donetsk People's Republic in ice.

Several buildings destroyed in attacks as conflict continues to rage in Donetsk.

As sporadic fighting across the border continued, president Poroshenko hopes new year will see Ukraine joining EU.

Former Soviet premier credit Putin with preventing the disintegration of Russia in the years following the collapse of the USSR.

Moscow lists Nato alliance as top security threat in revised military doctrine.

Hundreds of prisoners freed in rebel stronghold Donetsk after deal facilitated by OCSE.