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Russia announces that it has withdrawn from Snake Island, in the Black Sea, as a "gesture of goodwill", ending the occupation of the island that began in February. However, Ukraine says that it drove out Russian forces from the island after a massive artillery assault.
2022-06-30

Ukraine announces the mobilization of its military reserves with a maximum service length of one year for reservists between the ages of 18 and 60 years.
2022-02-23

Ukraine agrees to the "Steinmeier formula", aimed at granting a special self-governing status to the Donbass and organising OSCE-validated elections according to Ukrainian law.
2019-10-1

At the Munich Security Conference, a truce between Russian-backed separatists and the Ukrainian army, per the Minsk Protocol, takes effect Monday. Pending a permanent political agreement, Russian President Vladimir Putin orders that civil registration documents issued in separatist-held areas of Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine be temporarily recognized. Ukrainian authorities say this violates provisions in the Minsk agreement. This is the third such agreement because the previous two in 2014 and 2015 were violated. Low-level fighting and artillery fire never fully stopped.
2017-02-18

Twenty-one organizers for the Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev, Ukraine, resign en masse after claiming they were completely blocked from making decisions about the show. Despite the setback, the European Broadcasting Union insists that the event must go on.
2017-02-15

Video interviews show that two Russians captured in Ukraine have publicly admitted to being soldiers in the GRU Russian special forces. The Donetsk People's Republic (separatists) authorities claim these men were official policemen in the self-proclaimed republic, publicized their ID badges, and claimed they retired from the Russian military last year.
2015-05-21

The bodies of crash victims of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 are returned from Eastern Ukraine to the Netherlands together with flight recorders from the flight.
2014-07-23

The European Union freezes the assets of former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich, two of his sons, and dozens of his advisers.
2014-03-6

At least four explosions hit the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk with at least 27 people injured.
2012-04-27

Vasyl Dzharty, the Prime Minister of Crimea, an autonomous region of Ukraine, dies in office.
2011-08-17