THE LATEST UKRAINE NEWS FROM MAILONLINE

Ukraine police arrest 'killer who beheaded a mother and her daughter' then drove a truck at 100mph in 'attempt to emulate Berlin lorry attack'

02/01/17 07:13

27/12/16 12:20

Judge Anzhelika Presnyakova and journalist Olga Svorak were held by Russia-backed rebels who have been fighting Ukrainian forces since April 2014.

03/12/16 14:54

The 46-year-old, who has not been named, was discovered dead in his flat in the Ukrainian capital Kiev alongside the mummified body of his mother, who died five years ago.

01/12/16 14:55

Ukraine has begun two days of missile tests near Crimea in a move that has infuriated Russia in a fresh escalation of tensions between the two countries.

01/12/16 14:19

These pictures show the glamorous female soldiers defending Ukraine in the crisis-torn east of the country following a rule change which allowed them to take up arms.

01/12/16 14:09

The sudden influx of feet on the grounds adds to up to 7,500 Russian soldiers already stationed in Ukraine, where officials are said to be convinced Russia is attempting to topple the government.

29/11/16 23:34

The €2billion structure will allow specialist engineers to safely dismantle the failed nuclear reactor which led to the world's worst atomic accident in April 1986.

28/11/16 11:05

Video footage shows the entertainer accidentally set fire to the ceiling before trying and failing to put it out. Twenty two people were injured, of which 14 needed hospital treatment.

26/11/16 12:35

A bare-breasted protester attacked a piece of the Berlin Wall outside in the Ukrainian capital Kiev to coincide with an meeting to decide if its citizens could travel around Europe with a visa.

24/11/16 15:20

Galina Kovalenko, 52, was ready to trade the girl from a poor family to dealers for £8,050. She agreed to sell the girl to police posing as criminal organ harvesters.

24/11/16 12:47

Tomasz Maciejczuk sparked anger in the studio at Russian TV show Voting Right, and was punched by former Ukrainian MP Ihor Markov.

23/11/16 06:08

Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk paid $150,000 to the Trump Foundation in exchange for Donald Trump making a speech at one of his conferences, it has emerged.

18/11/16 16:28

Illegal immigrant Artur Samarin who faked his name and age to attend a Pennsylvania high school has been ordered to spend two months in prison on federal fraud charges.

18/11/16 15:20

He's often used his celebrity status to highlight a number of political issues. And Depp threw his star power behind another campaign as he expressed support for imprisoned Oleg Sentsov.

16/11/16 16:26

Ukraine's bid to join the EU took a new twist today when semi-naked pictures of the country's deputy interior minister in charge of European integration, Anastasia Deeva, were revealed (pictured).

11/11/16 20:00

More than 100 people including the alleged gang leaders have been arrested as part of the pan-European operation, Spanish police say.

04/11/16 15:24

The man, who has not been identified, was seen throwing himself onto the bonnet and coming away with a bloody nose in an accident in Kiev that's believed to be a compensation scam.

31/10/16 12:38

The 20-year old was awarded the coveted prize on Friday in Kiev. The price of phone starts at US $850 (£697) in Ukraine, while the name changes costs the equivalent of $2 (£1.64).

29/10/16 08:58

Ukrainian Liliya Kots, 28, has been detained by by pro-Vladimir Putin rebels on suspicion of being a member of staunchly nationalist Ukrainian organisations and working as a spy.

28/10/16 14:08

A group of hackers has released thousands of emails from an account used by a senior Kremlin official that appear to show close ties between Moscow and separatist rebels in Ukraine.

27/10/16 15:52

In the footage which was captured on a helmet camera, the rider can be seen dodging in and out of moving cars on a busy road in Kiev, and leaping over a crash barrier in pursuit of the fleeing thief.

28/09/16 18:44

Benjamin Stimson, 41, from Oldham, Greater Manchester, is thought to be the first Briton charged under terror legislation for alleged involvement in the civil war in the eastern European country.

28/09/16 17:33

A surface-to-air missile hit the Malaysia Airlines flight en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur in 2014, killing all 298 people aboard, most of them Dutch citizens.

19/09/16 18:11

Surveillance footage taken in Russia shows a woman believed to be an election official allegedly stuffing a pile of voting papers in to a ballot box.

19/09/16 15:05

Anna Zaiachkivska, who left her husband Gianluca Cervara and their home in Milan to go and live in New York says she had wrote to her husband telling him that she wanted to leave the relationship.

18/09/16 21:28

The right-wing demonstrators stood at the entrance of the Russian embassy in Kiev, Ukraine, where a polling station had been set up for Russian citizens to cast their votes.

14/09/16 16:11

Billionaire tycoon Mikhail Fridman has been granted permission to transform the derelict Athlone House, on the edge of Hampstead Heath, into a stately home.

07/09/16 12:43

Strictly viewers could not help but be won over by the dazzling Oksana Platero as she spun into Judge Rinder's arms on Saturday night - but behind her innocent looks lies a steely determination.

07/09/16 01:14

Petro Poroshenko warned that with Europe's internal strength being tested by the migration crisis and terrorist attacks, governments could become powerless to deal with Kremlin 'aggression'.

06/09/16 18:27

Aleksandra Kucherenko, 18, was competing in the countrywide pageant in Kiev when her lack of general knowledge was exposed as the host asked her to name the current Prime Minister of Ukraine.

05/09/16 14:05

Bizarre footage shows Ukrainian soldiers near the Russian border using a DIY catapults to hurl grenades over to the enemy front-line. 'F*** you Russia!' one yells as the explosion is heard.

02/09/16 18:23

Ukraine's defence minister said yesterday that a new ceasefire has been holding in eastern parts of the country. Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande are to put pressure on Vladimir Putin over the conflict.

26/08/16 19:03

A motorist in the Ukraine had an amazing escape after his car got stuck just as it dropped into a narrow hole which goes straight through a clifftop and ends with a 65-foot drop to the sea below.

26/08/16 06:07

Stephayne and Michael Potts have been accused of putting son Asher - who turned out to be 23-year-old illegal immigrant Artur Samarin - down on welfare forms in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

18/08/16 22:42

Ukraine is preparing for a 'full scale Russian invasion' after Putin sends thousands of troops to the border and rebels launch the heaviest rebel shelling attack for a year.

18/08/16 21:28

Manafort is listed as the recipient of two separate payments of $400,000 and $812,000 on Oct. 5, 2012 for 'exit polling' and 'international observers.'

18/08/16 15:52

A video captured by CCTV cameras in Kiev shows heavily-armed SWAT soldiers raiding the offices of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine - but the turnstile proves a tricky obstacle.

18/08/16 03:57

Large numbers of Russian troops are due to conduct exercises in the coming days that Pentagon officials have warned could be used as cover for an attack on Ukraine.

15/08/16 22:36

Claims that a secret ledger links Paul Manafort, Trump's campaign chief, to Vladimir Putin's deposed Ukrainian ally have been furiously denied. He called the report 'unfounded, silly and nonsensical'.

15/08/16 19:02

The video of the 24-year-old athlete Anna Voloshyna, filmed in Rio de Janeiro, has now gone viral and the Olympian has seen thousands of new fans subscribing to her profile.

13/08/16 16:45

The country's S-400 'Triumph' air defence system has been sent to the disputed region. The announcement came on Friday amid rising tensions between Ukraine and Russia.

11/08/16 21:05

Footage has emerged of Ukrainian soldiers playing the augmented reality game near the city of Dokuchaevsk in the east of the country despite the ongoing conflict with pro-Russian forces.

10/08/16 01:15

Ukrainian Artur Samarin, 23, who was accused of faking his name and age while attending a Pennsylvania high school and having sex with an underage girl, pleaded guilty on Monday.

08/08/16 10:06

Vinoks were traditionally seen as a symbol of purity and virginity, but they are now enjoying a comeback among Ukrainian women. Slavic workshop Treti Pivni are documenting them on social media.

31/07/16 13:49

Arina Koltsova (pictured), from Kiev, Ukraine, was arresting a suspect on New Year's Day - unaware that he was suffering from tuberculosis (TB). While carrying out her duties she was spat on by the man.

21/07/16 08:58

Ukrainian authorities are treating 44-year-old Pavel Sheremet's death as murder. The car exploded soon after he left his home in Kiev on Wednesday.

19/07/16 12:33

Villagers were seen laying floral tributes and photos at the makeshift memorials in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, while local children left paper planes they had made in memory of those lost.

17/07/16 19:22

The adorable bear cub., named Potap was caught on camera in Ukraine swimming around in the water feature, cooling off after a walk with his trainer from the circus he belongs to.

11/07/16 22:27

Shocking footage shows the moment two teenage girls are hit by a motorbike when crossing a road late at night in the Ukraine. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT

27/06/16 22:04

The creature was reported to have been hunted down by a pitchfork-wielding farm after it stalked into his barn to feast on his livestock in the western Ukraine's Chernivtsi region.

23/06/16 23:57

A disturbing video appears to show four men burying their victim alive. A Russian TV station has claimed the film was shot in Ukraine. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT.

08/06/16 10:46

As NATO carried out its biggest exercise in Poland since the end of communism since 1989, it emerged that Russian troops have been deployed to the Ukrainian border.

08/06/16 00:37

The missile part, pictured, was recovered from the crash site by prosecutors conducting the criminal investigation into the downing of the Malaysia Airlines aircraft in Ukraine in July 2014.

06/06/16 18:48

Police announced the arrest of the 25-year-old, identified as Gregoire M., on the day the England team flew into Paris ready for the tournament's kick off on Friday.

01/06/16 01:11

The unbelievable incident, which occurred while the Process talk show was being filmed in a studio in the Russian capital of Moscow, saw the journalist leave the Ukrainian political pundit bleeding.

30/05/16 03:19

The adorable moggies wore their sequin-clad costumes for the Royal Feline show in Kiev, which saw some of the rarest cats come together. They included the rare dwarf 'toyger' cat.

22/05/16 14:20

Secret footage of Eurovision 2016 winner Jamala has emerged, showing the woman performing her song in Ukrainian at a concert. This could be in direct breach of the rules.

19/05/16 15:29

Passengers were still on board the Ukraine International Airlines plane from Kiev to Tel Aviv when the alarms began to sound and the nose lifted upwards.

16/05/16 22:51

David Labuschagne, from Scarborough, North Yorkshire in the UK, was backing Australia's Dami Im to win the Eurovision Song Contest grand final on Saturday (Sunday morning local time).

16/05/16 19:46

New satellite images have placed the Russian Buk missile defence system used to down MH17 near the Ukrainian town where the jet was shot down - just five hours before it occurred.

16/05/16 02:19

Singer Jamala triumphed over Russia's Sergey Lazarev and Australia's Dami Im at the last second with her song 1944 - which is reportedly about Stalin, Crimea and claims of ethnic cleansing.

12/05/16 11:33

The 17 rare paintings that were snatched from Verona's Castelvecchio last November have been discovered by Ukrainian border guards in plastic bags on a small island on the Dniester River.

06/05/16 16:44

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Around 2,000 mass graves of Jewish men, women and children murdered in Ukraine during the Second World War have been found, but 6,000 are undiscovered.

05/05/16 13:34

The TV news team was filming a seemingly innocent report on a road accident in the city of Odessa in south-western Ukraine's Odessa Oblast region when a man opened fire.

04/05/16 08:23

A team from Bellingcat arrived at their findings after comparing features on a BUK missile launcher seen in rebel-held Ukraine on the day the jet was shot down with images of Russian weapons.

04/05/16 08:07

The EU will be unable to fully track the 127 million people from Turkey, Ukraine, Kosovo and Georgia travelling to Europe because not all countries have a computerised visa system.

29/04/16 19:20

Vyacheslav Oliynyk, who won a gold medal for Ukraine in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, shrugged off batons and pepper spray as officers tried to restrain him in Kiev, Ukraine.

27/04/16 09:18

Brisbane-based Guido van Helton has created the first artwork inside Reactor 5 in Ukraine's Chernobyl disaster zone to mark the 30th anniversary of the infamous disaster.

27/04/16 01:47

Nuclear scientist Giorgii Lysychenko joined 600,000 military men and women to clean up the radioactive debris following the explosion of the Ukrainian power plant on April 26 1986.

27/04/16 00:13

Haunting pictures show people revisiting their homes and places of work in the Ukrainian city of Prypyat, which was evacuated in April 1986 following a botched test at the nuclear plant nearby.

26/04/16 21:16

The specks on the roof of this giant power station are among the bravest people on earth - or the most foolhardy. Every day they clamber to the roof to try to seal in killer radiation.

26/04/16 15:57

Mourners gathered for a service in Slavutych (pictured), a town 30 miles from Chernobyl that was established to house many of those who had to leave their homes for ever.

26/04/16 11:50

Two highly advanced US fighter jets landed at the Mihail Kogalniceanu air base in Romania on Monday. Barack Obama promised in 2014 to bolster the defenses of NATO's eastern members.

26/04/16 08:03

New evidence suggests that the downing of the Malaysian Airlines plane MH17 in July 2014 was caused by a shot from a Ukrainian fighter jet rather than a ground-to-air missile.

20/04/16 18:34

Camera traps show 14 species of mammal (illustrated) are living in the exclusion zone around the site of the Chernobyl disaster in what is now Ukraine and Belarus.

18/04/16 16:04

Named the New Safe Confinement, when completed the dome will enclose the damaged Reactor Four in Ukraine and replace the 'sarcophagus' currently built on the nuclear site.

13/04/16 10:36

This is the shocking moment a girl was crushed and dragged along by a hide speed train in Yuzhno-Sakhalins, Russia after failing to pay attention at a crossing due to her headphones.

13/04/16 07:54

Doctors say children born in the areas surrounding the Chernobyl exclusion zone today are still being born with higher rates of immune system deficiencies and heart rhythm disorders.

07/04/16 15:21

The referendum in Holland had asked citizens to vote on closer political, defence and trade ties between Europe and Ukraine.

06/04/16 16:05

Thanks to its eerie ruins, the abandoned Ukrainian city of Pripyat has become a popular attraction for those with a morbid curiosity - but some visitors could be accused of being insensitive.

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