Raw: Ukraine's Donetsk residents flee

UKRAINE: The conflict in eastern Ukraine stepped up a notch as rebels shot down two Ukrainian military planes on Wednesday (July 23), in a sign that despite the international attention drawn by the MH17 tragedy, it will not lead to a break in ...

One of the two black boxes recovered from the crash site of the MH17 jet during a press conference in Donetsk, Ukraine.

Reuters/Kiev Brazil striker Fred has returned to Ukrainian champions Shakhtar Donetsk, the club said yesterday, adding that they also expect his compatriot Ismaily to follow him back shortly. The two Brazilians were among six South Americans ...

Related 's coach says the Ukrainian champion will play its home games this season in Lviv in western Ukraine, over 600 miles from its home city, due to ongoing conflict in the east of the country. Donetsk is the largest city controlled by ...

A piece of the crashed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 lies at the village of Petropavlivka in Donetsk. AP Independent military analysts said on Wednesday that the size, spread, shape and number of shrapnel impacts visible in an AP photograph of a piece of the ...

Pro-Russian rebel leader Alexander Borodai said he's preparing for block-to-block fighting to defend Donetsk as Ukraine seeks to retake the stronghold and end a conflict he says has resulted in 10,000 deaths. "We will stand till the end," Borodai, ...

DONETSK. July 24 (Interfax) - Explosions and volley fire are audible in Donetsk and smoke can be seen above north-western suburbs of the city, the Interfax correspondent reported on Thursday. According to the information of the press office of the ...

BRUSSELS, July 24./ITAR-TASS/. A meeting was held in front of the EU parliament building in Brussels to express support for the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk peoples' republics while the parliament was discussing additional sanctions against ...

Beside me, mothers and fathers farewell children, boyfriends say goodbye to girlfriends; anyone who can afford to leave this besieged Ukrainian city is doing so, for good reason. And they are anxious. Our overcrowded train is bound for the capital ...