State Dept: End ‘Terror’ in Eastern Ukraine | Calls for end to protests, downplays civil war risk

Ukraine Opens Peace Plan Talks Without Rebels | Will discuss EU-backed decentralization plan

Seven Ukraine Soldiers Killed in Kramatorsk Attack | Militia blew up APC raiding city

CNN Poll Shows Ukraine as Split as Ever | Stark regional divide on the country’s future

Second Referendum Possible as East Ukraine Faces Post-Vote Divide | First vote created more questions than it answered

Report: 400 US Mercenaries in Ukraine to Fight Protesters | German paper claims BND confirmed deployment weeks ago

Ukraine’s Strategy to Disrupt Vote: Open Fire on Crowds | Shootings, ballot seizures don’t stop referendum

Commission Reports Landslide Victory in East Ukraine Referendum | 89 percent endorse People’s Republic of Donetsk