A priest stands in front of a hospital destroyed after shelling between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists in the eastern city of Donetsk, Ukraine, on January 19.
-- A military spokesman says Ukrainian soldiers on January 20 came under attack from Russian regular forces in the north of the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine.
-- Germany's foreign minister says he and his counterparts from Ukraine, Russia, and France will meet on January 21 in Berlin in a bid to de-escalate the conflict in Ukraine.
-- The chief of Russian gas giant Gazprom says Ukraine's discount "winter price" for natural gas will end on April 1. Gazprom CEO Aleksei Miller said in a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev that the price for Kyiv would be set in accordance with a long-standing contract, one Kyiv has long sought to change.
-- Russia says a European Union decision to keep sanctions against Russia in place shows the EU is not ready to change an "unfriendly course" toward Moscow. The EU's decision "only confirms the fact that the EU is still not ready to alter its unfriendly course or to give an objective assessment of the Kyiv authorities' actions," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
-- A Georgian man fighting on the Ukrainian side in the conflict in Ukraine has been killed in combat near the Donetsk airport, according to relatives. Media reports in Georgia quote members of Tamaz Sukhiashvili's family as saying he was killed in a battle near the bitterly contested airport on January 17.
-- The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has expressed deep concern over what it says is the "escalation" of violence between government forces and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine over the past two weeks. In a statement, the ICRC said the fighting in and around the city of Donetsk was killing civilians and "preventing" its team from carrying out its humanitarian work.
-- An explosion near a courthouse in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv has wounded 14 people, four of them seriously.
-- Russia says Kyiv is trying to solve the crisis in eastern Ukraine through military force and that could lead to "irreversible consequences for Ukrainian statehood." Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin spoke to Interfax news agency as Kyiv and Moscow accused each other of ignoring appeals for a cease-fire to be respected.
*NOTE: Times are stated according to local time in Kyiv
1/21Portraits of former President Viktor Yanukovych greet visitors to the museum exhibit.
The National Art Museum of Ukraine is hosting an exhibition of art, religious icons, and decorative objects from Mezhyhirya, the extravagant private residence of former President Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych abandoned his estate and possessions when he fled Ukraine with his inner circle amid the antigovernment uprising in February. Curators say the collection is worth more than $50 million. (RFE/RL)
2/21A bust of Yanukovych
The National Art Museum of Ukraine is hosting an exhibition of art, religious icons, and decorative objects from Mezhyhirya, the extravagant private residence of former President Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych abandoned his estate and possessions when he fled Ukraine with his inner circle amid the antigovernment uprising in February. Curators say the collection is worth more than $50 million. (RFE/RL)
3/21A painting depicts former Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka (seated) and his colleagues as generals in the 1812 Battle of Borodino.
The National Art Museum of Ukraine is hosting an exhibition of art, religious icons, and decorative objects from Mezhyhirya, the extravagant private residence of former President Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych abandoned his estate and possessions when he fled Ukraine with his inner circle amid the antigovernment uprising in February. Curators say the collection is worth more than $50 million. (RFE/RL)
4/21After Yanukovych fled Kyiv with his inner circle on the night of February 21-22, activists and journalists moved into his residence, searching his documents for evidence of corruption and turning his possessions over to the new authorities.
The National Art Museum of Ukraine is hosting an exhibition of art, religious icons, and decorative objects from Mezhyhirya, the extravagant private residence of former President Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych abandoned his estate and possessions when he fled Ukraine with his inner circle amid the antigovernment uprising in February. Curators say the collection is worth more than $50 million. (RFE/RL)
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The National Art Museum of Ukraine is hosting an exhibition of art, religious icons, and decorative objects from Mezhyhirya, the extravagant private residence of former President Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych abandoned his estate and possessions when he fled Ukraine with his inner circle amid the antigovernment uprising in February. Curators say the collection is worth more than $50 million. (RFE/RL)
6/21In this painting, Yanukovych's girlfriend, Lyubov Polezhay, is depicted as an empress.
The National Art Museum of Ukraine is hosting an exhibition of art, religious icons, and decorative objects from Mezhyhirya, the extravagant private residence of former President Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych abandoned his estate and possessions when he fled Ukraine with his inner circle amid the antigovernment uprising in February. Curators say the collection is worth more than $50 million. (RFE/RL)
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The National Art Museum of Ukraine is hosting an exhibition of art, religious icons, and decorative objects from Mezhyhirya, the extravagant private residence of former President Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych abandoned his estate and possessions when he fled Ukraine with his inner circle amid the antigovernment uprising in February. Curators say the collection is worth more than $50 million. (RFE/RL)
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The National Art Museum of Ukraine is hosting an exhibition of art, religious icons, and decorative objects from Mezhyhirya, the extravagant private residence of former President Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych abandoned his estate and possessions when he fled Ukraine with his inner circle amid the antigovernment uprising in February. Curators say the collection is worth more than $50 million. (RFE/RL)
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The National Art Museum of Ukraine is hosting an exhibition of art, religious icons, and decorative objects from Mezhyhirya, the extravagant private residence of former President Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych abandoned his estate and possessions when he fled Ukraine with his inner circle amid the antigovernment uprising in February. Curators say the collection is worth more than $50 million. (RFE/RL)
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The National Art Museum of Ukraine is hosting an exhibition of art, religious icons, and decorative objects from Mezhyhirya, the extravagant private residence of former President Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych abandoned his estate and possessions when he fled Ukraine with his inner circle amid the antigovernment uprising in February. Curators say the collection is worth more than $50 million. (RFE/RL)
11/21Yanukovych had a large collection of religious icons.
The National Art Museum of Ukraine is hosting an exhibition of art, religious icons, and decorative objects from Mezhyhirya, the extravagant private residence of former President Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych abandoned his estate and possessions when he fled Ukraine with his inner circle amid the antigovernment uprising in February. Curators say the collection is worth more than $50 million. (RFE/RL)
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The National Art Museum of Ukraine is hosting an exhibition of art, religious icons, and decorative objects from Mezhyhirya, the extravagant private residence of former President Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych abandoned his estate and possessions when he fled Ukraine with his inner circle amid the antigovernment uprising in February. Curators say the collection is worth more than $50 million. (RFE/RL)
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The National Art Museum of Ukraine is hosting an exhibition of art, religious icons, and decorative objects from Mezhyhirya, the extravagant private residence of former President Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych abandoned his estate and possessions when he fled Ukraine with his inner circle amid the antigovernment uprising in February. Curators say the collection is worth more than $50 million. (RFE/RL)
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The National Art Museum of Ukraine is hosting an exhibition of art, religious icons, and decorative objects from Mezhyhirya, the extravagant private residence of former President Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych abandoned his estate and possessions when he fled Ukraine with his inner circle amid the antigovernment uprising in February. Curators say the collection is worth more than $50 million. (RFE/RL)
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The National Art Museum of Ukraine is hosting an exhibition of art, religious icons, and decorative objects from Mezhyhirya, the extravagant private residence of former President Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych abandoned his estate and possessions when he fled Ukraine with his inner circle amid the antigovernment uprising in February. Curators say the collection is worth more than $50 million. (RFE/RL)
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The National Art Museum of Ukraine is hosting an exhibition of art, religious icons, and decorative objects from Mezhyhirya, the extravagant private residence of former President Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych abandoned his estate and possessions when he fled Ukraine with his inner circle amid the antigovernment uprising in February. Curators say the collection is worth more than $50 million. (RFE/RL)
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The National Art Museum of Ukraine is hosting an exhibition of art, religious icons, and decorative objects from Mezhyhirya, the extravagant private residence of former President Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych abandoned his estate and possessions when he fled Ukraine with his inner circle amid the antigovernment uprising in February. Curators say the collection is worth more than $50 million. (RFE/RL)
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The National Art Museum of Ukraine is hosting an exhibition of art, religious icons, and decorative objects from Mezhyhirya, the extravagant private residence of former President Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych abandoned his estate and possessions when he fled Ukraine with his inner circle amid the antigovernment uprising in February. Curators say the collection is worth more than $50 million. (RFE/RL)
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The National Art Museum of Ukraine is hosting an exhibition of art, religious icons, and decorative objects from Mezhyhirya, the extravagant private residence of former President Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych abandoned his estate and possessions when he fled Ukraine with his inner circle amid the antigovernment uprising in February. Curators say the collection is worth more than $50 million. (RFE/RL)
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The National Art Museum of Ukraine is hosting an exhibition of art, religious icons, and decorative objects from Mezhyhirya, the extravagant private residence of former President Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych abandoned his estate and possessions when he fled Ukraine with his inner circle amid the antigovernment uprising in February. Curators say the collection is worth more than $50 million. (RFE/RL)
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The National Art Museum of Ukraine is hosting an exhibition of art, religious icons, and decorative objects from Mezhyhirya, the extravagant private residence of former President Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych abandoned his estate and possessions when he fled Ukraine with his inner circle amid the antigovernment uprising in February. Curators say the collection is worth more than $50 million. (RFE/RL)
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More on the Yanukovych international arrest warrant, via Reuters:
Interpol has put ousted Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich and two members of his former government on the international wanted list at the behest of Ukraine, according to a notice on its website on Monday.
The international police organisation said Yanukovich and his former finance minister, Yuri Kolobov, were wanted in Ukraine on charges of embezzlement and financial wrongdoing. Former Prime Minister Mykola Azarov was also listed though it was not clear what the Ukrainian charges against him were.
Ukrainian authorities said Interpol's publication of a so-called red notice against 64-year-old Yanukovich and his two allies empowered any police force to hand them over to Ukraine if they were detained. Yanukovich has been living in Russia since he was toppled by street protests in February 2014.
In Moscow, the Russian Interfax news agency quoted a source familiar with the situation as saying Russia was unlikely to grant any request to extradite Yanukovich to Ukraine.
"Today, several months after Ukraine sent a request to Interpol in March 2014 with the arguments and explanations prepared by the Interior Ministry, the Prosecutor General's Office and the Security Service of Ukraine, an Interpol special commission has come to a decision," Ukraine's interior minister Arsen Avakov wrote on his Facebook page.
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Based on the Ukrainian prime minister's recent gaffe to German media, in which he referred to "the Soviet invasion of Germany and Ukraine."
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a press conference in Moscow: "Regardless of what is happening in Paris, Syria or Libya and elsewhere, we will demand from our Western partners, who have much more influence over the Ukrainian government than anyone else, that they should sort out these plans and prevent 'the party of war' in Kyiv from crashing all the fragile hopes that were created by the Minsk accords."
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TASS reported that "more than 60 trucks" returned to the Russian base of Noginsk, in Rostov, from the 11th incursion into Ukrainian territory by Russian convoys that Moscow claims are carrying humanitarian aid. It has not allowed any of the shipments to be inspected by the Red Cross or Ukrainian national authorities.
