World news about “Ukraine” published by euronews.
Animals in Ukraine out in the cold during the big freeze Birds which used to spend winter near the lakes in Kiev’s city parks are looking for water that has not turned to ice. According to Ukrainian ecologists… 09/02/2012
Ukraine MPs disrupt key Yanukovich speech A keynote speech to parliament by Ukraine’s president has been disrupted by supporters of the jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, who is serving seven… 07/02/2012
Europe slows down as big freeze takes hold The first snowfall in over 20 years in Italy’s capital has left the city eerily quiet. Iconic tourist attractions the Colosseum and Roman Forum have been… 05/02/2012
Ukraine’s big freeze claims more lives Officials in Ukraine said 122 people have now died in the country’s coldest winter for six years. Temperatures have dropped as low as minus 33 degrees… 04/02/2012
Gas grumbles heat up in bitter cold The European Commission has confirmed several European countries are experiencing reduced flows of Russian natural gas. Brussels says the countries involved… 04/02/2012
Big freeze tightens its grip on Europe The big freeze has tightened its grip on Europe. The death toll has risen as temperatures have dropped and snow has swept across the continent from the… 04/02/2012
The high cost of poor insulation in Ukraine With temperatures falling as low as -30 at night in Ukraine during the cold spell, experts claim gas vital for keeping warm is being wasted. Poor… 04/02/2012
More than 200 dead in Europe’s big chill At least 220 people have died in the past week throughout Europe, victims of widespread severe winter weather. Worst hit have been Ukraine and Poland which… 03/02/2012
Deadly cold Europe Shattering Siberian cold rolling over Europe banished what had been a mild winter. Ukraine got the worst of it, the temperature sliding fatally low. More than… 03/02/2012
Night time cold war for Ukraine’s homeless For the homeless of Ukraine, the polar weather is a matter of life and death. There is some relief from the bitter conditions at government shelters. Ten… 03/02/2012
No end to big freeze in Europe The big freeze continues throughout many parts of Europe with at least 79 deaths since Saturday. Emergency airlifts are being organised in Bosnia and Serbia… 02/02/2012
Ukrainians turn to pork fat in a bid to keep warm Slabs of white pork fat may not be everyone’s idea of culinary heaven. But when you’re trying to keep warm in unbearably freezing temperatures, the… 01/02/2012
Ukraine’s big freeze: Heated tents help homeless When the temperature is pushing minus 30 degrees Celsius, a heated tent and a meal can mean the difference between life and death. That is exactly what is on… 31/01/2012
Gaitana sings on the road to Euro 2012 The popular Ukrainian singer Gaitana has written and recorded an anthem for this summer’s Euro 2012 football championships. She came up with the song ‘Viva… 31/01/2012
EU enlargement: In search of the next CroatiaCroatia’s ‘Yes’ vote to join the European Union puts it on course to be the club’s 28th member in July 2013. But the low turnout last Sunday suggests the … 26/01/2012
Waifs and strays in Ukraine This week animal rights activists have been protesting outside a government building in Ukraine demanding authorities protect stray animals they believe are… 26/01/2012
Ukraine: Orthodox Epiphany celebrations – nocomment Orthodox believers celebrate Epiphany by taking a dip in icy Ukrainian water. 21/01/2012
French official denied visit to former Ukraine PM France has expressed fresh concerns over the plight of Ukraine’s jailed former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko. It comes after France’s human rights… 19/01/2012
Ukrainian women rage against Indian prostitute ‘slur’ Feminist activists braved freezing temperatures in Kyiv in a protest against a report that Indian authorities are to scrutinise Ukrainian visa applications as… 18/01/2012
Road to Euro 2012 goes to Kiev We are on the Road to Euro 2012 once more, visiting the cities that will host the European football championships this summer – and in this edition we explore… 15/01/2012
Kharkiv looks forward to welcoming Euro 2012 visitors Kharkiv in the east of Ukraine is one of the four cities gearing up to host games in the Euro 2012 competition. The city is well-known for its parks, museums… 19/12/2011
Poland’s race against time for Euro 2012 Warsaw’s national stadium is on the brink of completion after an eye watering investment of half of billion euros. In just six months time, the venue will… 12/12/2011
20 years after the USSR The fall of the Soviet Union resulted in huge changes – in all aspects of life. Education changed, and the education systems in the former Soviet Republics… 09/12/2011
euronews’ journalists on Euro 2012“There may very well be a Ukraine Vs Poland final. We can dream, can’t we?” Siemienski Thomas – Head of the Polish team, euronews. “Euro 2012 is a real… 07/12/2011
Euro 2012 preparations The 14th European Football Championship is only months away. New stadiums are being built while old ones get a make over to host some of the world’s greatest… 07/12/2011
EURO2012 draw The who’s who of European football gathered in Kiev Friday night for the Euro2012 draw. To no great surprise there will be a host of mouthwatering ties on… 02/12/2011
FEMEN protests against the UEFA Euro 2012 – nocomment Protesters of women activist group FEMEN demonstrate against prostitution during the upcoming UEFA Euro 2012 soccer tournament in front of the Olympic stadium… 02/12/2011
Europe’s finest brace themselves for Euro2012 draw Europe’s elite footballing nations will know their fate for next summer on Friday when the Euro2012 draw is made in the Ukrainian capital Kiev. The 16… 01/12/2011
Ukrainian Bolshevik Revolution Day – nocomment Ukrainian police arrest nationalist protesters after the demonstrators attempted to break up a Communist rally marking the Bolshevik Revolution Day in Kiev. 08/11/2011
Tymoshenko makes plea from prison windowUkrainian ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko is seen through a prison window in Kiev November 4, 2011. Tymoshenko, in a dramatic plea from her prison cell… 05/11/2011
UEFA bans smoking at Euro 2012 With only a few months to go before Euro 2012 kicks off in Ukraine and Poland, UEFA announced on Monday that smoking will be completely banned at stadiums… 24/10/2011
Ukraine’s president defends Tymoshenko trial Ukraine’s ambitions to join the EU were expected to take a big step forward this week during a visit by President Viktor Yanukovic to Brussels. But… 20/10/2011
Poland preps please Platini UEFA chief Michel Platini was full of praise for Poland’s readiness for Euro 2012 during a review of the national Stadium in Warsaw. After initial concerns… 13/10/2011
Rough waters ahead in EU-Ukraine relations The sentence in the Tymoshenko case has shocked Ukraine and surprised many people around the world. Just after the sentence was passed, euronews witnessed the… 11/10/2011
Tymoshenko’s ordeal Ukraine’s Yulia Tymoshenko, convicted of abuse of office in resolving a gas dispute, has had her share of accusations of shady dealing on the path from… 11/10/2011
Heavyweight boxer takes on brutal world of politics Meet Vitaliy Klychko, world heavy weight boxing champion and aspiring politician. He and his brother Volodymyr dominate their sport and currently hold all… 07/10/2011
Ukraine and Belarus top Eastern Partnership summit EU leaders head to Poland today faced with the tricky task of re-energising relations with the bloc’s eastern neighbours. Democracy and human rights abuses… 29/09/2011
Platini visits Ukraine UEFA president Michel Platini announced on Monday that Ukraine was nearly ready to co-host Euro 2012. The 56 year old, who was on the second of a two—day… 27/09/2011
Financial crisis, Schengen zone and relations between Europe and Ukraine in Europe Weekly In this week’s Europe Weekly we look at why there is no let up from financial crisis and how it affects the Europe’s poorest people. We look at why two … 24/09/2011
Ukraine at the crossroads This is a crucial year for Ukraine and especially for its international relations with both Russia and Europe. That was the backdrop to this year’s… 22/09/2011
Euro co-hosts compare notes As Euro2012 creeps ever closer co-hosts Poland and Ukraine continue their race against the clock to be ready in time for UEFA’s flagship event. On Monday… 12/09/2011
Medvedev on Syria, Ukraine and Russian ethnic harmony The Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has told euronews he believes the Syrian government is using disproportionate force against pro-democracy protesters… 08/09/2011
Lviv, the ‘Little Paris’ The city of Lviv in the west of Ukraine is perhaps the best example of the stark differences between the country’s main centres. Its ancient streets give… 22/08/2011
Ukraine’s push for EU visa-free travel When it comes to relations between Ukraine and the European Union, one big issue in Kiev is the on-going controversy over EU travel visas. Everyday… 22/08/2011
Kazantip: The Party Land Some call this place the Ibiza of Eastern Europe, a Ukrainian “Burning Man”! Others say there’s nothing quite like it elsewhere in the world! This is the land… 22/08/2011
Topless protest at Tymoshenko trial – nocomment Activists from Ukraine’s Femen group staged a topless protest in a show of anger against the entire political class amid the trial against former Prime… 17/08/2011
Ukraine’s ex-PM Yulia Tymoshenko arrested – nocomment Police arrested former Ukraine Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko during her abuse-of-office trial for violations of court procedures. Her supporters in court… 06/08/2011
Military manoeuvres in Ukraine – nocomment The ‘Rapid Trident’ joint Ukraine-NATO military exercise in western Ukraine involves 1,600 personnel from the US, Ukraine, Canada and neighbouring CIS and… 04/08/2011
Odessa film festival underway Odessa, the Ukranian port known as the Pearl of the Black Sea, is currently hosting its second international film festival. The organisers are hoping to… 19/07/2011
Soviet childhood museum opens in Ukraine Those who grew up in the Soviet Union can step back in time at the newly opened Soviet Childhood Museum in the Ukranian Black Sea Port of Sevastopol. 23/06/2011
Leopolis Grand Prix Festival revives tradition – nocomment Ukrainian and Polish retro car enthusiasts seek to revive the tradition of car races with the “Leopolis Grand Prix Festival” in Lviv, Ukraine. The festival… 14/06/2011
Chernobyl’s 1986 disaster On 26 April 1986, it was decided at Chernobyl to take advantage of reactor number four’s downtime by carrying out a safety test on an emergency core cooling… 26/04/2011
Ukraine marks 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disasterA widow holds a portrait of her husband during a ceremony in Kiev to honour the victims of the Chernobyl accident. REUTERS/Konstantin Chernichkin 26/04/2011
Chernobyl needs costly new dome An extra 110 million euro donation for Chernobyl, to build a new containment structure… The promise from the European Union coincides with the opening this… 18/04/2011
Tymoshenko: ‘I will never abandon Ukraine’ In order to go to Brussels for the European People’s Party conference, the leader of the Ukrainian opposition ‘Fatherland’ party, Yulia Tymoshenko, had to ask… 31/03/2011
Damien Hirst on art sharks and cash cows He is rich and controversial, provocative and extravagant. Animals preserved in formaldehyde, skulls decorated with diamonds, the art of Damien Hirst is… 23/12/2010
Ukraine ponders East or West In 1945, the World War II allied leaders met at Livadia Palace in Yalta, to establish a new world order. For the last seven years, the same Crimean city in… 08/10/2010
Ukraine’s big freeze claims more livesOfficials in Ukraine said 122 people have now died in the country’s coldest winter for six years. Temperatures have dropped as low as minus 33 degrees… 04/02/2012
Tymoshenko’s husband granted asylumThe husband of Ukraine’s former Prime Minister has been granted asylum in the Czech Republic. Oleksander Tymoshenko, who’s wife Yulia was jailed for 7 years… 06/01/2012
Prison transfer for Ukraine ex-PM TymoshenkoFormer Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko is now in a detention centre in the east of the country, after being moved from a jail in the capital Kiev… 30/12/2011
Topless Femen activists recount abuse by policeThree members of a Ukrainian group known for their topless protests claim they were mistreated after being arrested in Belarus. The women from Femen, a… 21/12/2011
Video surfaces of imprisoned TymoshenkoA political storm has broken out in Ukraine after a video showing jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko surfaced on social networking sites after being… 16/12/2011
Ukrainian court drops charge linking Kuchma to murderA Ukrainian court has dismissed a charge against former President Leonid Kuchma of involvement in the murder of an opposition journalist twelve years ago on… 14/12/2011
Tymoshenko ‘re-arrested’ in Ukraine prison cellA Ukrainian court has held a hearing inside Yulia Tymoshenko’s prison cell, where the opposition leader was in bed with back problems. Prosecutors formally… 09/12/2011
Crocodile – Ukraine’s new drug threatThe United Nations says extraordinary progress has been made fighting AIDS over the past decade. But in Ukraine cases of HIV infection have been rising… 02/12/2011
Court opens Tymoshenko appeal against jailingA Ukrainian court started hearing the appeal of jailed former prime minister Yuila Tymoshenko on Wednesday. The 51-year-old did not appear for the hearing… 01/12/2011
Ukraine veterans clash with police in Kiev over cutsThere have been clashes in the centre of the Ukrainian capital Kiev amid a protest by veterans from the Chernobyl disaster and the Soviet-Afghan war of the… 29/11/2011
Man’s death fuels violent protest in UkraineAnger over economic hardship in Ukraine has erupted into violence again. Around 100 people tried to storm a local administration building in the city of… 28/11/2011
One man dies in Chernobyl cuts protestOne person died in overnight protests in Ukraine on Sunday held by Chernobyl workers over planned cuts to their compensation benefits. The government says… 28/11/2011
Ukraine’s Orange Revolution: a sombre seventh anniversaryIt was a far cry from the mass protests of the Orange Revolution. Seven years on, the remnants of Ukraine’s pro-democracy movement gathered in Independence… 22/11/2011
Ukraine’s faded orangeRevolutionary energy in Ukraine today is a far cry from seven years ago. Then, hundreds of thousands of people protested over a presidential election they… 22/11/2011
Ukraine’s Tymoshenko charged with tax evasionKIEV, Nov 11 (Reuters) – Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, already sentenced to seven years in prison for abuse of office, has been charged… 11/11/2011
Ukraine budget cuts threaten war veteransUkrainian protesters symbolically stuck pumpkins on the gates outside their parliament to show their refusal of new austerity measures. The fruit is usually… 03/11/2011
Chernobyl ‘liquidators’ try to storm parliamentVeterans of the Chernobyl nuclear clean-up operation have been battling police outside Ukraine’s parliament in Kiev. Some 1,000 so-called ‘liquidators’… 01/11/2011
Topless protest against DSK in ParisA protest with a difference has taken place outside the home of the former IMF chief Dominique Strauss Kahn in Paris. A Ukrainian feminist organisation… 31/10/2011
Ukraine revives old case against TymoshenkoFresh charges of embezzlement are being made by Ukraine’s state prosecutor against the now jailed former prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko. The move comes… 25/10/2011
Pressure mounts on Yanukovych over TymoshenkoThe European Union has indefinitely postponed an invitation to Ukraine’s president over the jailing last week of the country’s former Prime Minister Yulia… 18/10/2011
Ukraine’s Tymoshenko faces new corruption claimsNew criminal charges have been filed against jailed former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Security officials are alleging she was involved in a… 14/10/2011
Pro-Tymoshenko camp vows to remainIn Ukraine, supporters of the jailed former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko have promised to maintain their protest camp until she is released. They have… 12/10/2011
Wide condemnation of Tymoshenko verdictThere has been a stunned reaction in Ukraine and elsewhere to the seven year jail sentence handed down to former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko. She was… 12/10/2011
Ukraine reacts to Tymoshenko verdictIn Kiev, riot police were on duty before court proceedings began against Yulia Tymoshenko. About 2,000 supporters mixed with crowds of anti-Tymoshenko… 11/10/2011
Putin calls Tymoshenko jail term unfairRussian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday said the jail term handed to former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko was unfair. Tymoshenko was… 11/10/2011
Tymoshenko found guilty and given seven years in jailA Kiev court on Tuesday sentenced former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to seven years in jail for ‘exceeding her powers’. The court said… 11/10/2011
Tymoshenko supporter: we’re ready for the revolutionOutside the court, riot police were out in force. Hundreds of supporters of Tymoshenko gathered outside the courthouse in the centre of Kiev, and there were… 11/10/2011
Seven years jail for guilty TymoshenkoA Kiev court on Tuesday sentenced former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to seven years in jail for ‘exceeding her powers’. The court said… 11/10/2011
Fears of unrest at Tymoshenko hearingOutside the court where the corruption trial of Yulia Tymoshenko is being held is being read, riot police are out in force. Hundreds of Tymoshenko’s… 11/10/2011
Judge: Tymoshenko “exceeded her powers”It is the climax of the court case against Ukraine’s ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko. A judge has begun reading his verdict after her trial on charges… 11/10/2011
Verdict in Tymoshenko trial due todayThe verdict in the ‘abuse-of-office’ trial of former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko is due today. Prosecuters are pushing for a seven-year sentence… 11/10/2011
Tymoshenko verdict set for October 11A Kiev judge has adjourned the corruption trial of Ukraine’s former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko until October 11. The court is set to give its verdict on… 30/09/2011
Tymoshenko trial casts shadow over EU meeting in WarsawLeaders from European Union member countries and their counterparts from eastern European countries are meeting in the Polish capital, Warsaw, for discussions… 30/09/2011
Ukrainian Jews remember WWII massacreEvents are being held across Ukraine to mark the 70th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre. Nearly 34,000 Jews were killed on the 29th and 30th September… 30/09/2011
Tymoshenko could face seven year sentenceProsecutors in Ukraine want 7 years in jail for former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko over a gas deal with Russia. She is accused of exceeding her… 28/09/2011
Ukraine says Russia agrees to review gas dealRussia has agreed to revise its gas contract with Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian prime minister Mykola Azarov. “We have finally managed to reach and… 26/09/2011
Ukraine veterans protest over payout cutsHundreds of Ukrainian veterans from the Soviet war in Afghanistan, along with rescue workers from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident, have protested against… 21/09/2011
Yanukovitch wants South Stream through UkraineUkraine’s President Yanukovitch wants the proposed South Stream gas pipeline to pass through his country instead of the Black Sea. He said it would make the… 16/09/2011
EU unveils new energy strategy to end gas cutsThe EU has unveiled a new energy strategy it says will help it avoid possible shortages arising from gas disputes between Russia and Ukraine. Europe imports… 08/09/2011
Putin and Schroeder get Nord Stream pumpingA controversial pipeline to pump Russian gas to Europe has been officially inaugurated. The 8.8-billion-euro Nord Stream project was agreed in 2005 by then… 06/09/2011
Gas talks fail between Russia and UkraineTalks between Russia and Ukraine on gas prices have broken up in Moscow without agreement between the bickering pair. Energy has been a thorn in the side of… 05/09/2011
Ukraine fires another salvo in gas battle with RussiaKiev’s state gas company has signed a deal with Royal Dutch Shell to extract gas from shale deposits in the former Soviet republic. It comes after Kiev has… 01/09/2011
Russia-Ukraine gas row hots upThe temperature is rising in the latest gas row between Ukraine and Russia. Ukraine wants a discount on the price it pays its neighbour for gas. But Russian… 01/09/2011
