Author: Tony Wesolowsky, RFE/RL

A Panama-flagged cargo ship navigating the Black Sea on its way to a Danube River port to load grain, a crucial export commodity for war-hit Ukraine, was jolted by an explosion in late December that threw the vessel off course, sparked a fire on deck and left two crew members injured. The Ukrainian military, which...

PRAGUE – A steady rain turned the field in a leafy Prague district where rows of tents temporarily house refugees from Ukraine into a quagmire. Svitlana Pisarskaya and her special-needs son decided to leave the mud, puddles and packed tents behind, at least temporarily, making the journey on tram to the city’s main train station,...

Leonid Kravchuk, a key figure in ushering in the largely peaceful dissolution of the Soviet Union three decades ago and the first president of independent Ukraine, has died. He was 88. Mr. Kravchuk, who was president of Ukraine from 1991-1994, died after a long illness, according to Ukrainian media. He had been placed in an...