Ukraine

Lawmakers in Crimea called a March 16th referendum on whether to break away from Ukraine and join Russia instead, voting unanimously Thursday to declare their preference for doing so.

Didn’t it seem like the crisis in the Ukraine just popped up in front of us without any warning? Truth is, there were probably signs it was happening all along – it’s just that we weren’t paying attention. But now that Russia has stepped up its military actions in Crimea, some analysts are calling for a U...

Top diplomats from the major players trying to find an end to the crisis in Ukraine are gathering in Paris on Wednesday as tensions simmered over the Russian military takeover of the strategic Crimean Peninsula.

Accusing the West of encouraging an "unconstitutional coup" in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Moscow reserves the right to use all means to protect Russians there.

President Barack Obama says Russia is "on the wrong side of history" in Ukraine and its actions violate international law.

The Obama administration said Monday that any Russian threat to Ukraine's navy would be a "dangerous escalation" of an extremely tense situation.

Ukraine's military admitted Monday that pro-Russian troops have surrounded or taken over "practically all" its military facilities in Crimea — a move that Russia's foreign minister defended as a necessary protection for the ethnic Russians on the Black Sea peninsula.

As hundreds of armed men surrounded a Ukrainian military base in Crimea on Sunday, world leaders and Ukraine's new prime minister urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to pull back his military.

Russian President Vladimir Putin asked parliament Saturday for permission to use the country's military in Ukraine, moving to formalize what Ukrainian officials described as an ongoing deployment of Russian troops in the strategic region of Crimea.

There have been conflicting reports today from Ukraine's Crimean peninsula, about whether two airports there are under Russian or Ukrainian control.