Sources: BBC
Mikheil Saakashvili, leader of the opposition Movement of New Forces party, who has been stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship by Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko on 26 July 2017, is detained by the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Kiev and deported from Ukraine to Poland. 2018-02-12
A parked scooter explosion in Kiev, thought to be an assassination attempt on Ukrainian Radical MP Ihor Mosiychuk, kills his bodyguard and one more man. Mosiychuk, political scientist Vitaliy Bala and a woman are injured. 2017-10-25
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
A fire at a home for elderly people near the Ukrainian capital Kiev kills at least 16 people. 2016-05-29
In a few cities in Western Ukraine anti-government protesters seize government buildings. 2014-02-19
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich accepts the resignation of Prime Minister Nikolay Azarov and his cabinet; the cabinet will continue to work until a new government is formed. 2014-01-28
Anti-government protesters topple the last surviving statue of Communist leader Vladimir Lenin in central Kiev. 2013-12-8
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
Hundreds of protesters clash with police in the Ukrainian capital Kiev and the parliament speaker offers to resign over moves to boost the status of the Russian language in the country. 2012-07-4