The Pentagon says Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will visit Ukraine next week to reassure government leaders that the U.S. does not accept Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region.

Parliament member demands to know whether his country's government targeted Trump in the 2016 campaign.

NORTH KOREA and its apparent threats to attack Donald Trump’s United States with Ukrainian-built missiles were circulated by the Russian secret service, according to a Kiev official

August 15, 2017 5:00 AM
WASHINGTON • North Korea's success in testing an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that appears able to reach the United States was made possible by black- market purchases of powerful rocket engines probably from a Ukrainian factory with historical ties to Russia's missile programme, according to an expert analysis and classified assessments by US intelligence agencies.

Ukraine denied on Monday that it had ever supplied defense technology to North Korea, responding to an article in the New York Times that said North Korea may have purchased rocket engines from Ukrainian factory Yuzhmash.

North Korea's rapid rate of success with their long-range missiles can be attributed to powerful rocket engine it acquired from the black market in Ukraine and Russia, according to a study published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Seeking leverage with Russia, the Trump administration has reopened consideration of long-rejected plans to give Ukraine lethal weapons, even if that would plunge the United States deeper into the former Soviet republic’s conflict. The deliberations put pressure on President Donald Trump, who’s fighting perceptions he is soft on the Kremlin amid investigations into whether his campaign colluded with Moscow to interfere in the 2016 US election. The proposal, endorsed by the Pentagon and the State Department, reflects his administration’s growing frustration with Russian intransigence on Ukraine and a broader deterioration in US-Russian ties. The tensions were seen most...

Seeking leverage with Russia, the Trump administration has reopened consideration of long-rejected plans to give Ukraine lethal weapons, even if that would plunge the United States deeper into the former Soviet republic's conflict.

Ukraine's Elina Svitolina beats Caroline Wozniacki to win her fifth title of 2017 and leave the Dane with six final defeats.