The man who took a police officer hostage in Ukraine's Poltava has released him, the Obschestvennoye news portal reported on Thursday, citing a source

The man who took a police officer hostage in Ukraine's Poltava has released him, the Obschestvennoye news portal reported on Thursday, citing a source

The man threatening to detonate a grenade in Ukraine's central city of Poltava has taken hostage the head of the local police's criminal investigations directorate, and they are now heading toward the exit from the city in a car, the criminal investigations directorate said on Thursday

Police have released 23 of the 24 protesters detained during the riots in Ukraine's Novy Sanzhary town, located in the Poltava Region, against the arrival of people evacuated from China's Wuhan, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry's press service said on Friday

A Ukrainian law enforcement officer was seriously injured during protests in central Ukraine against the placement of evacuees from China, as the demonstrators feared the spread of the novel coronavirus, officially dubbed COVID-19, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said

A convoy with people whom Ukraine evacuated from China's Wuhan city has left Kharkiv airport and is heading to a quarantine facility in the Poltava Region, according to live broadcast by Ukrainian media

Scuffles have erupted between law enforcement officers and residents of Ukraine's Novy Sanzhary town in the Poltava region, as locals oppose the arrival of people evacuated from China's Wuhan, the epicenter of the deadly coronavirus outbreak, media reported on Thursday

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday criticized protests held in the country against the evacuation of Ukrainians from China amid a coronavirus outbreak

Lawyer Valentin Rybin said on Friday that all the prisoners set to take part in the Russian-Ukrainian prisoner exchange were either at gathering points or in detention facilities, refuting claims that any of them had departed to their home country