Sources: BBC
The Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs confirms that independent member of the Verkhovna Rada Valeriy Davydenko has been found dead in his office in Kiev with a gunshot wound to the head. 2020-05-23
Authorities in Ukraine announce the arrest of a suspected terrorist in connection with a 2017 Kiev attack that killed two and wounded three including MP Ihor Mosiychuk. 2018-04-4
Police raid the wrong tent of an activist camp in Kiev and fail to arrest the stateless opposition leader Mikheil Saakashvili. A police source says police are preparing a special operation and will be unleashed "in the near future". 2017-12-6
Thirty thousand people are evacuated from Kalynivka, Ukraine, following an explosion in an ammunition dump 180 km southwest of Kiev. The Government of Ukraine blames sabotage. 2017-09-27
The Ukrainian parliament votes to free Yulia Tymoshenko, the former prime minister jailed for more than two years for what supporters say are politically tainted charges. She is released later in the day. 2014-02-22
Ukrainian economist and writer Oleksandr Turchynov is voted Speaker of the Parliament, and in that capacity acting President of Ukraine. 2014-02-22
During the third Sunday of mass protests, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians in Kiev seek the resignation of the government for refusing a deal on closer ties with the European Union. 2013-12-8
Anti-government protesters topple the last surviving statue of Communist leader Vladimir Lenin in central Kiev. 2013-12-8
Viktor Yanukovych and Dmitry Medvedev agree to extend the lease between Kiev and Moscow that allows Russia's Black Sea Fleet to be stationed in Ukraine in return for cheaper gas until 2042. 2010-04-21