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Ukraine Parliament Hands Presidency to Tymoshenko Ally

Parliament speaker gives MPs til Tuesday to form government; Yanukovych still missing

(Newser) - The whereabouts and legitimacy of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych are still unclear today, after he left the capital and archrival Yulia Tymoshenko was freed from prison and returned to Kiev to address a massive, adoring crowd . Ukraine's newly emboldened legislature voted today to hand the president's powers to...

Protesters Give Ex-Ukraine PM Mixed Reaction

Yulia Tymoshenko tells them, 'You are all heroes!'

(Newser) - Ukrainian opposition icon and former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko arrived today at a Kiev protest camp after being released from a hospital where she was incarcerated. "You are heroes, you are the best thing in Ukraine!" she said of those killed in the violence, looking tired and speaking...

Ukraine: 'A Dictatorship Has Fallen'

President leaves Kiev as protesters take HQ; Tymoshenko free

(Newser) - It's a day of fast-moving developments in Ukraine: The parliament voted to oust President Viktor Yanukovich, while he fled Kiev but vowed to stay in office. Meanwhile, his main political rival has been freed from prison after two years, declaring that " a dictatorship has fallen. " It's...

Meet the Face of Ukraine's Protests

Video with 'Yulia' has nearly 6 million hits

(Newser) - A deal is in place in Ukraine to end the bloodshed, though whether it will stick remains an open question. In the meantime, the Daily Beast takes a look at the woman it calls the "viral heroine of the Maidan," referring to the area in Kiev where protesters...

Ukraine to Release Former Prime Minister

Yulia Tymoshenko has been in jail 2 years

(Newser) - Ukraine's newly empowered parliament has voted to allow the release of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko after more than two years in prison. Legislators voted 310-54 to decriminalize the count under which she was imprisoned, meaning that she is no longer guilty of a criminal offense. "Free Yulia!...

Ukraine Opposition Signs Peace Deal, But...

...it remains to be seen whether protesters accept the deal

(Newser) - Ukraine's opposition leaders today signed an international deal with the country's president intended to end battles between police and protesters that have killed scores and injured hundreds , the AP reports. President Viktor Yanukovich's office stated earlier that the government and the opposition had agreed to initial the...

'Almost-Medieval Melee' Claims 70 Lives in Kiev

Short-lived Ukraine truce comes to violent end, with death toll climbing

(Newser) - The truce was as short-lived as you can get, with fierce clashes between police and protesters breaking out in Kiev just hours after it was announced. Reports say firearms are being used by both sides in the battle over Independence Square, marking a "new and ominous phase," reports...

Ukraine President: We've Got a Truce

Development comes as US, EU consider sanctions

(Newser) - It's a welcome break from the violence in Kiev: Ukraine's president and opposition leaders say they have agreed to a truce, reports Reuters . The development comes a day after a crackdown in Kiev left more than two dozen dead and hundreds more injured, prompting the US and Europe...

Kiev Now a 'Battle Zone,' With 26 Dead

Chaos in Ukraine as police launch fresh assault against protesters

(Newser) - At least 26 people have been killed and hundreds more injured in the worst violence in Ukraine's post-Soviet history, according to the country's health ministry, which says the dead include 10 police officers and a journalist. The mayhem began as anti-government protesters clashed with security forces yesterday, and...

Sheer &#39;Mayhem&#39; Rocks Ukraine
 Sheer 'Mayhem' Rocks Ukraine 
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Feb 18, 2014 3:45 PM CST

Sheer 'Mayhem' Rocks Ukraine

19 dead as Kiev protests explode

(Newser) - "Mayhem" in Ukraine , declares the New York Times , amid reports that anti-government protests have boiled over in Kiev's bloodiest day since President Viktor Yanukovich turned down an EU deal in November. Nineteen were killed in street clashes, including six policemen, reports the BBC , and details are a bit...

Pilot Tricked Ukraine Hijacker
 Pilot Tricked Ukraine Hijacker 
Feb 8, 2014 11:08 AM CST

Pilot Tricked Ukraine Hijacker

He landed in Istanbul, announced it was Sochi

(Newser) - When a Ukraine passenger aboard a Turkish passenger plane announced that he had a bomb yesterday and ordered the plane to fly to Sochi, the pilot pulled a fast one, reports Radio Free Europe . He pretended to oblige but brought the plane down at an airport in Istanbul instead. Upon...

Cops: Ukraine Hijacker Tried to Force Plane to Sochi

He is in custody after bomb threat

(Newser) - As the opening ceremony of the Olympics was unfolding this morning, a passenger aboard a Turkish plane tried to divert it to Sochi, reports CNN . The man, identified only as Ukrainian, announced that a bomb was on board and ordered that the plane fly to Russia, authorities say. He reportedly...

US Blames Russia for Leaked F-Bomb Call

Diplomat slams EU in bugged Ukraine discussion

(Newser) - American diplomats have been seriously embarrassed by the release of an apparently bugged phone call in which frank comments on the Ukraine crisis are exchanged—and a speaker believed to be Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland says "F--- the EU." The US strongly suspects Russia is behind...

Ukrainian Activist: I Was Crucified

He's become the bloodied face of the opposition movement

(Newser) - US and Russian diplomats traded blame over the volatile situation in Ukraine today, but more attention continues to be paid to an anti-government protester who claims to have been tortured. Not just tortured, "crucified." Dmytro Bulatov says he got kidnapped and held for about a week before his...

Embattled Ukraine President Takes ... Sick Leave

Not everyone believes he's actually sick

(Newser) - With his country in crisis, Ukranian President Viktor Yanukovich is stepping aside—but not resigning, as protesters are demanding, and as Prime Minister Mykola Azarov did earlier this week. Instead, authorities today announced that Yanukovich is taking some sick leave, saying he had a high temperature and an acute respiratory...

Ukraine Scraps Protest Ban as PM Quits to 'Calm Crisis'

Azarov resignation unlikely to appease protesters

(Newser) - The prime minister of protest-torn Ukraine has submitted his resignation, saying he hopes the move would help bring peaceful resolution to the crisis that has gripped the country for two months. Mykola Azarov's resignation would remove one of the figures most despised by the opposition. Hours later, parliament repealed...

Ukraine Threatens State of Emergency

Protesters mostly back off after storming Justice Ministry

(Newser) - Ukraine protesters are largely backing away from the country's justice ministry, after its head threatened to call a state of emergency if they didn't back off. Protesters had barricaded the building—one of many occupied government facilities—using bags of snow; a source tells the BBC that about...

Ukraine Opposition Leader Can Be PM: President

Move puts former foreign minister in tight spot

(Newser) - Ukraine's embattled president today offered to make a top opposition leader the prime minister, but it was unclear if the overture would mollify the radical faction of protesters who have clashed with police for much of the last week. The offer by President Viktor Yanukovych to make Arseniy Yatsenyuk,...

3 Dead as Ukraine Cops Storm Barricades

Medics say 2 protesters were shot dead, 1 fell

(Newser) - Three protesters have died in clashes with police in the Ukrainian capital today, according to a medic for the protesters, in a development that will likely escalate the country's two-month-long political crisis. One activist died in the hospital after falling from a high altitude at the site of the...

Ukraine Uses Cell Phones to Track Protesters

Government sends mass text warning to demonstrators

(Newser) - Scourge of the modern protester: Ukraine demonstrators this morning got this text on their cell phones: “Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance," reports the New York Times . The threat is clear enough, given that the government also made it a crime punishable...

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