Eight people died and 10 more were injured in a fire early on Saturday in a private hotel in the southern Ukrainian port of Odessa, Ukraine's emergencies service said.

Eight people were killed and 10 were injured in a hotel fire in Ukraine's port city of Odessa early Saturday, emergency services said.The fire broke out at 1.34am (local time) in the southern city's Tokyo Star hotel.Some 65 firefighters backed by 13 emergency vehicles put out the blaze three hours later.Emergency services said in a statement that eight people died and 10 were injured.In a statement on his Facebook page, President Volodymyr Zelensky said four of those injured were in a critical… ......

Eight people died and 10 more were injured in a fire early on Saturday in a private hotel in the southern Ukrainian port of Odessa, Ukraine's emergencies service said.

EU states would be wrong to "warm up" to Russia because it was still waging war in Ukraine, Poland's deputy foreign minister Marcin Przydacz told Reuters on Thursday. "There is no reason to invite Russian leaders to different parties or dances together," he said, alluding to an episode last year, when the then Austrian foreign minister Karin Kneissl invited Russian president Vladimir Putin to her wedding.

Earlier, a lawyer representing the families of four German nationals killed in the MH17 plane crash disaster in eastern Ukraine in 2014 said he would invite the private detective to testify as a witness in a case related to the incident in the European Court of Human Rights. ......

Lawyers for Gregory B. Craig said their client never intended to deceive Justice Department officials about his work on behalf of Ukraine’s government.

According to the European Commission's Animal Disease Notification System, several outbreaks of African Swine Flu have occurred in Bulgaria, Romania, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine, originating in Bulgaria. The country's deputy agriculture minister admitted that Bulgaria failed to contain the disease. Experts say it might lose its entire 600,000-strong pig-breeding industry. Bulgaria will receive €2.9m EU financial aid to combat the disease.

Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed a decree on Tuesday which offers citizenship to Russians enduring political persecution and to foreigners fighting on Ukraine's side in the ongoing conflict hitting eastern Ukraine, according to Radio Free Europe. Zelenskiy first announced the decision last month after Moscow said it was expanding the number of Ukrainians living in Donetsk and Luhansk to apply for Russian passports. Ukraine, the European Union, and other Western countries decried Moscow's move as an attempt to undermine Ukrainian sovereignty in the occupied regions. Zelenskiy published decree No. 594 on the presidential website and the document called for the cabinet to...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed a decree on Tuesday offering citizenship to Russians suffering political persecution, and also to foreigners who fought on Kiev's side in the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

French President Emmanuel Macron will seek to persuade his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin next week to resume peace talks with Ukraine after its new president offered an olive branch, a French official said on Tuesday.