The US is discussing applying additional sanctions on Russia amid its presumed involvement in the crisis between the government of Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists in the east, Secretary of State John Kerry announced on Saturday. “Russia has engaged in an absolutely brazen and cynical process over these last days,” he …

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has confirmed release of 139 Ukrainian soldiers in a prisoner swap with separatists in East Ukraine. Poroshenko in a statemnet broadacast by the Russian Interfax News Agency, late on Friday, said the prisoners’ release took place in the remote Zholobok town. Sources for the separatists, earlier, …

US Secretary of State John Kerry urged Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday to stop Russian and separatist attacks on Ukrainian forces in Debaltseve, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters. “Secretary Kerry spoke with Foreign Minister Lavrov this morning. He pressed Foreign Minister Lavrov to stop Russian and separatist …