KIEV, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Ukraine's southern Odessa region, known for its Black Sea beach resorts, will develop green tourism, the state-run Ukrinform news agency reported Monday. The report cited Svitlana Shatalova, deputy head of Odessa regional administration, as saying that a rural and e...
Days before Ukraine's presidential election, Russia withdrew its troops from the border with Ukraine, a clear sign Putin was beginning to back off his antagonistic stance toward its neighbor. In addition, Putin praised the election and promised to work with Poroshenko. In late June, he requested...
The Odessa Village Board Monday night tabled two resolutions that would have started the lengthy process to dissolve the village government -- a measure that Mayor Gerry Messmer has warned is possible if village residents continued showing no interest in running for the village board in the March ...
Ukraine prepares to defend Odessa from Russian attacks on the strategic Black Sea port city. People walk among anti-tank barriers placed to protect historic landmarks in expectation of a Russian assault on the strategic Black Sea port city on March 14, 2022 of Odessa, Ukraine. Scott Peterson ...
Ukraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told the United Nations Security Council on Friday afternoon in New York that as it was discussing the war, an air raid was taking place and a residential building in the southern port city of Odessa was hit. He said two civilians were “heavily wounded...
"Since the start of the conflict, 138 children were killed. They fell victims to the hostilities and to the landmines explosions," Iryna Gerashchenko, the First Vice Speaker of the Ukrainian parliament, told reporters during a briefing in Ukraine's southern city of Odessa. ...
South Korea is banning its nationals from traveling to areas in Russia and Belarus that share borders with Ukraine, the country’s Foreign Affairs Ministry said Sunday. The ministry said it would raise the travel alert for these areas to its highest level, Level 4, which will take effect from...
In northeast of Ukraine, 34 civilians were killed by Russian attacks on the Kharkiv region within a 24 hour period, emergency services announced Thursday morning. Russian troops are advancing toward Odessa, the strategically significant city on the country’s southern coast. Growing humanitarian cri...
From CNN's DJ Judd (Sarahbeth Maney/The New York Times/AP) President Joe Biden expressed solidarity with Ukrainian people in his State of the Union address on Tuesday – but reiterated that the US would not deploy troops to Ukraine. “Let each of us here tonight in this Chamber, if...
From CNN's Yulia Kesaieva in Kyiv Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky during a joint press conference with Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at Chequers, the prime minister's official country residence, near Ellesborough, northwest of London, on May 15. ...