Ukraine

More than two dozen lawmakers barged into a secure US Capitol meeting room, delaying the testimony of a Pentagon official.

Democrats said the congressional testimony by Bill Taylor was a stunning confirmation of their allegations that Trump abused his office.

A poll showed that "a new high" of 51 percent of voters want Trump impeached and removed from office.

Trump blasted his accusers as he sought to turn the tables on a probe that threatens to make him only the third US president ever impeached.

The 50-day Blue Whale challenge that has claimed countless lives across Europe has now taken a 12-year-old Ukrainian girl.

Liza Kanareikina was found ravaged and dismembered after not returning from her daily walk home, which passes through a wooded area in Donetsk, Ukraine.

Since 2015, a bitcoin-stealing cybercrime gang has been launching phishing attacks exploiting Google's own advertising network to pilfer more than $50m worth of cryptocurrency.

Foreign office minister for cybersecurity Lord Ahmad has criticised Russian military for the NotPetya attack that crippled Ukraine and 64 countries.

Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili has been abducted by armed men from a restaurant in Kiev, Ukraine, after a court rejected his appeal against extradition to Georgia.

Kiev adopted a law labelling Moscow as an "aggressor" state in Donetsk and Luhansk provinces.

Since the source code for version 2.0.8.9 of the ZeuS trojan was leaked in 2011, other threat actors have taken inspiration from the malicious code.

A horrified mother and father watched their toddler son die on New Years Eve after he was crushed by a man who fell from a building in a suspected suicide.

A man who claims to be equipped with explosives is in a stand-off with police at a Ukrainian post office, with nine adults and two children reportedly being held hostage.

A Vatican gendarme intercepted her and she was detained. Femen's website identified her as Alisa Vinogradova and called her a "sextremist".

Stanislav Yezhov, who got close to Theresa May in Downing Street, arrested by Ukrainian secret service in Kiev.

The former foreign secretary William Hague says that Russia is not Britain's enemy, as his successor is set to hold talks in Moscow.

Ukrainian police went looking for former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili. A massive punch-up and surreal game of hide-and-seek ensued.

A murder victim's father detonated two grenades in Nikipol, a Ukrainian city in Dnipropetrovsk, with police saying he 'died on the spot after the explosion'.

Subjects at the General Yermolov Cadet School in southern Russia include handling firearms, disarming landmines, forest survival training and learning Morse code.

The Ukrainian military said in a statement they suffered their biggest loss of life since July during the clash near the small village of Krymske.

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke at a meeting of military leaders in Sochi saying that 'all large-scale enterprises' should be ready to meet war-time production levels.

Pussy Riot's Maria Alyokhina tells IBTimes UK that the west needs to keep up pressure on Moscow over its annexation of Crimea as her group fights for more freedoms in Russia.

Was the BadRabbit cyberattack a red herring, designed to throw people off the scent of the mission's real objective?

Upon analysis, multiple cybersecurity firms – including Cisco Talos, FSecure and Symantec – have now concluded that an exploit known as 'EternalRomance' helped the malware spread.

The explosion, described as a "terrorist act", is thought to have targeted the Ukrainian Radical Party MP Ihor Mosiychuk as he left a television station in Kiev.

According to Group-IB, a cybersecurity firm, the virus now spreading is dubbed "BadRabbit" and is a form of ransomware that locks down machines and demands bitcoin.

Alyona Zaitseva, 20, was travelling at 60mph when she crashed into pedestrians at a junction in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Alyona Zaitseva, the 20-year-old daughter of a Russian oligarch, has been detained by police, but critics fear her powerful connections will see her escape justice.

The Chatham House think tank says there needs to be greater EU support to help Ukraine which is 'fighting for survival" as an independent state.

Incident comes as government forces fight Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.