Official says they were executed on battlefield
Ukrainian authorities say nearly 1.5 million households across the country have been left without electricity
Fires began on April 3 in the western part of the uninhabited exclusion zone before spreading to nearby forests
More than 130 firefighters, three aircraft, and 21 vehicles were deployed to battle fire, which was said to have burned around 20 hectares (50 acres) in long-vacated area
It marks the second major prisoner exchange involving Ukrainians caught up in the conflict in four months
Stanislav Aseyev, who wrote under the pen name Stanislav Vasin, disappeared in Ukraine's Donetsk region on June 2, 2017, and has been held in detention since
Oleksiy Pukach, who once headed the surveillance department of Ukraine’s Interior Ministry and was found guilty in the murder of Heorhiy Gongadze, may have his sentence commuted
More than a million people from ex-Soviet countries now call Israel home – making up a fifth of its population
Kyiv says Moscow used the since renamed ship to block three Ukrainian naval vessels before seizing them and 24 Ukrainian sailors last November off Crimea’s coast
Voter turnout was nearly 50 percent in July 21 snap parliamentary elections held three months ahead of schedule
Organizers of the 'March of Equality' have said that they expect 10,000 people to participate in the event
Volodymyr Zelenskiy is expected to be inaugurated in early June
Arkady Babchenko had been scathingly critical of Kremlin in recent years; he left Russia in February 2017, saying he was receiving threats and concerned he might be jailed
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says gas deliveries to Ukraine have 'stabilized' after Russian gas giant Gazprom halted gas supplies to country earlier this week in latest energy dispute between Kyiv and Moscow
Police say six protesters and four police officers were hurt in the violence near the Verkhovna Rada in the Ukrainian capital
US special envoy for Ukraine Kurt Volker says Minsk accords - Western-backed blueprint for ending war between Kyiv and Russia-backed separatists - have not been implemented because Moscow has not shown 'willingness to implement them'
Ukraine's parliament has passed a bill governing state policy on areas in the east that are held by Russia-backed separatists.
