In a speech, President Vladimir Putin bent Ukraine’s complex history into his own version that served as a justification for his cleaving off more of ...

Across the country, Lenin statues and hammer-and-sickle emblems of the Soviet past have been toppled, replaced by monuments to Ukrainians killed in the 2014 uprising.

Some analysts say Ukraine's posture of playing down the threat is to prevent panic, while others say it reflects the country's uneasy acceptance that conflict ...