Mariupol

The EU supports sanctions while laundering billions in dirty money from Russia.

More than 10,000 are now dead, and almost 2 million have fled their homes.

Eastern Europe has become the most rapidly militarizing region on earth.

Will Russia's president continue backing the costly, troublesome Donbass rebels?

Putin is not afraid to start a war if he thinks it will keep him in power.

Putin's seizure of Crimea and his war in the Donbas have fostered a patriotism that is driving Ukraine toward the EU.

Ukrainian separatists and the Kiev government believe a fresh outbreak in hostilities with Russia is imminent.

Luhansk rebels have confirmed the death of two militants near Kalynove.

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Putin-backed forces appear to be trying to encircle the city, which stands on the road to Crimea.

Clashes near the port city of Mariupol and the rebel-held town of Gorlivka have put further strain on a fragile ceasefire.

While battling Putin's forces, residents of Mariupol learn that governments are to serve the people, not the other way around.

Combined Russian-separatist forces have withdrawn from Shyrokyne. But Mariupol residents remain wary.

For the beleaguered people on Ukraine's front lines, Mcdonald's is a symbol of democracy and peace.

50,000 Ukrainian troops await a summer onslaught from Putin's forces, forging a land route to Crimea.

Moscow is not expecting NATO forces to intervene if it grabs Mariupol.

Mariupol is on the road to Crimea, but taking the city is far beyond the rebels' reach without Putin's troops.

U.S. and Ukrainian official have both reported that both Russian troops and weaponry are gathering on the border.

Eight miles from the front, Ukrainian soldiers get patched up as they await the Russian onslaught.

"There are more of us. Putin is afraid of a Russian Maidan."

The port city is considered a prime target for the Donetsk separatists.

Separatist forces are pushing to connect Russia with Crimea by road.

Radical views and the use of symbols echoing Nazi emblems have caused alarm in the West and Russia.

Despite Poroshenko's insistence that weaponry is being withdrawn from the frontline, tensions are still running high.

Law student Alik Sardarian tended to the injured during the Maidan uprising before reluctantly going to war.

The ceasefire agreed in Minsk last week is now on the brink of total collapse as the rebels advance on Mariupol.

Ukrainian military fear that Mariupol is next target for pro-Russian separatists.

Violence in Ukraine's eastern Donbass regions is at its worst since the September ceasefire agreement

On Ukraine's front lines, a strategic port city is awash with rumors about saboteurs, spies and imminent attack.

In Mariupol, Poroshenko promised 'crushing defeat' to Russian separatists if they violate ceasefire agreement