Three people were killed and thirteen others injured by gunfire in a confrontation between anti-government protesters and soldiers stationed at a military base in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov says. Avakov wrote on his Facebook page that three of the anti-government activists that clashed with soldiers at the base ...

Ukrainian forces have launched an operation against pro-Russian activists who seized a police station on Saturday, the interior minister says. Arsen Avakov announced on his Facebook page that "all security units" were involved in an "anti-terror operation" in the eastern city of Sloviansk. Russia warned earlier that any use of force in eastern ...