A report on German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier's trip to the Kremlin and meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow:
A Radio Svoboda video on how low-income families in Ukraine are struggling to make ends meet:
The wife of a Ukrainian cyborg killed at the Donetsk airport tells her story of their life together in this video from Radio Svoboda:
Ukrainian military intelligence officials have detected four Russian reconnaissance planes along the Ukrainian border:
Two men detained in Moscow near the Kremlin for rallying in support of Savchenko:
The Ukrainian security service, SBU, has arrested two Russians for allegedly planning an explosion aboard a plane:
A Radio Svoboda report on Ukraine's IT sector:
A profile of theater director Anton Romanov, who was forced to leave Crimea because of his pro-Ukrainian views:
The parents of Belarusian Mikhail Zhyznevskyi, who was killed by Berkut snipers during Euromaidan in Kyiv, at a commemoration for him today:
From our news desk:
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says his talks with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, on the Syria and Ukraine crises have been “productive.”
“Spoke at length today with FM Lavrov about #Syria and #Ukraine,” Kerry said on Twitter on March 24. “Productive dialogue with important partner.”
Kerry earlier said a "fragile" cessation of hostilities in Syria has "produced some progress," adding that he wanted to see a further reduction as well as greater flows of humanitarian aid.
Lavrov said he intended to discuss "how the international community can assist in the settlement of the Ukrainian crisis."
Kerry will also meet with President Vladimir Putin.
During the talks, the secretary of state is expected to gauge whether the Russian leadership is ready to discuss ways to ease Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power.
On Ukraine, he is expected to call on Moscow to do more to press Russian-backed separatists in the country's east to comply with a cease-fire.
Based on reporting by Reuters, TASS, and Interfax