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Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Svyrydenko steps down as president Volodymyr Zelenskyy announces a cabinet reshuffle and changes to law enforcement leadership, citing the need to implement an updated political strategy during Russia's invasion.
2026-07-12

As police arrive at the stateless Mikheil Saakashvili's house in Kiev to detain him, Saakashvili goes up on the roof to protest verbally. Police then detain him and try to take him away in a blue minivan while hundreds of people block the street. Finally the supporters free him out of the van. Bespeeching the cameras again, he rails against corruption, against Petro Poroshenko and urges Ukrainians to "be afraid of nothing".
2017-12-5

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

Ukraine says that a cyberattack on Boryspil International Airport near Kiev came from Russian computers.
2016-01-18

Ukrainian security forces start dismantling protest camps in Kiev with two protesters feared dead after clashes with police.
2014-01-22

Gaia Cauchi of Malta, wins the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Kiev, Ukraine, with her song "The Start."
2013-11-30

Former Prime Minister of Ukraine, and leader of the most numerous opposition party Yulia Tymoshenko is arrested in Kiev.
2011-08-5

An appeals court in Lithuania overturns a ruling which had earlier, due to fears over homophobic violence, prevented the country's first gay pride parade going ahead in Vilnius tomorrow.
2010-05-7