The number of people killed in eastern Ukraine since last April has now topped 6,000, despite successive ceasefires, a UN spokesman said Monday.
Admiral Alexander Vikto, commander of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, will be charged of abetting "the betrayal of the country" and "organizing sabotages".
High-level diplomatic talks on the Ukraine crisis involving Russia, the United States and Ukraine failed to reach an agreement amid mounting pressure on Russia from the West.
Ruben Plasencia, a 27-year-old Spanish photographer, has produced a picture collection of blind people titled "Obscure". He worked on the project for over two months with a Spanish organization. He explains: "The incessant race prejudices and stereotypes grow exponentially, these faces create a mockery of that idealized desire, finding their own beauty. I spent two wonderful months surrounded by people who opened my eyes, and my heart, to a whole new world of sensations."
Pro-Russian demonstrators carry a Russian flag during a rally in front of a regional government building in Donetsk March 5, 2014.
US President Barack Obama spoke to British Prime Minister David Cameron about the situation on Ukraine, the White House said on Wednesday.
NATO announces to suspend the planning for first NATO-Russia joint escort-vessel-mission to neutralise Syria's chemical weapons.
Diplomats from Ukraine and Russia, together with the United States and other European officials have agreed to continue talks to find a peaceful solution to the Ukrainian crisis.
UN special envoy to Ukraine Robert Serry, who was "seriously threatened" and his car blocked by a group of armed men in Crimea, Ukraine, fled on foot and was last reported "in good shape."
Russia said on Wednesday it has no authority over pro-Moscow forces that have taken de facto control of Ukraine's majority-Russian Crimean Peninsula.
In a somber show of US support for Ukraine's new leadership, US Secretary of State John Kerry walked the streets on Tuesday where more than 80 anti-government protesters were killed last month and promised beseeching crowds that US aid is on the way.
European Union leaders holding a crisis meeting on Ukraine on Thursday could impose sanctions on Russia if there has been no "de-escalation" by then, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said.
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