The number of Ukrainians fleeing the country after the 2014 eruption of a conflict in Ukraine’s east is approaching the one million mark, a UN report states.

An analyst says the US and NATO are involved in war games on Russia’s doorstep and they are moving military hardware to Eastern Europe, which is an act of provocation against Russia.

Russia's foreign minister says he is optimistic about a peaceful solution to the crisis in Ukraine.

An analyst says Ukraine’s government acts on the behalf of the West and depends on US aid to survive.

Moscow says it has not agreed to the deployment of international peacekeepers to eastern Ukraine.

Russia sends its 25th humanitarian aid convoy to Donbass region in Ukraine to provide the residents’ necessities.

Ukraine started working on changes to its constitution. The reform of the main law was one the planks of the Minsk peace deal reached on February 12. But it remains unclear whether the new constitution will bring the peace to the war torn country.

Fresh clashes in east Ukraine leave nine Ukrainian troops wounded.